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| NTPC to recruit 1,000 fresh professionals in FY10 |
| Press Trust of India / New Delhi Apr 08, 2009, 18:20 IST |
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Contrary to global trends, state-run National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) is on a hiring spree as it is recruiting 1,000 fresh professionals in the current fiscal against 735 in 2008-09.
"We plan to hire 1,000 freshers during 2009-10. We hired 735 fresh engineering graduates, including 460 through campus recruitments in the previous financial year," NTPC Chairman and Managing Director R S Sharma told reporters here.
He said, "The attrition rate of the executives during 2008-09 was 1.77 per cent as compared to 3.1 per cent in 2007-08."
The total employee strength as on March 31, 2009, is 24,698 as against 24,547 on the same day last year. This excludes employees in the company's joint ventures and subsidiaries.
Also Read: NTPC FY09 PAT up 5.56% at Rs 7,827 cr
NTPC is adopting 17 industrial training institutes (ITI). It is setting up greenfield ITIs at various locations to meet the skill gap in the power sector.
As part of its corporate social responsibility initiative, about 750 village youth in the vicinity of NTPC's power stations have been sponsored for ITI training in various trades.
The company today posted profit after tax of Rs 7,827.4 crore for 2008-09, up 5.56 per cent from Rs 7,414.8 crore in the previous fiscal.
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