Hearty Greetings !

Let me first acknowledge the wonderful experience of two and half years spent with you while beginning the new innings of Director (Personnel). Right from the day one since July, 2008, day after day, I felt deeply associated and engaged in the SJVN and its eclectic human resource. It was, indeed, the feeling of common fate sharing. This experience, truly speaking, reminds me of the famous quote of Henry Ford, “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is a progress. Working together is a success”.

The development of an organisation is not a linear progression. It is a lifelong learning curve. In the trajectory of SJVN’s challenging path, if we recall it, NJPC of 1988 and SJVN of 2011, it has endured the unendurable and suffered the insufferable experiences and challenges. You and your great predecessors valiantly struggled and fought successfully with the tsunami of construction and operational problems leading to place the SJVN in the prestigious group of Schedule “A” Miniratna CPSEs.

Today we have a transformational opportunity. The SJVN is moving ahead on preferred path of growth through capacity addition and diversification in India and abroad to expand its business. Treading on this path, in the emerging competitive business environment with the entry of private sector (IPPs) coupled with regulated tariff regime; the SJVN and every one of us face the following challenges

1.     Optimally operating and maintaining the 1500 MW NJHPS and meeting the high expectations and targets set by stakeholders.

2.     Commissioning the 412 MW RHEP by September 2013 without any time and cost over runs.

3.     Bringing the projects of over 3500 MW capacity, presently under survey and investigation (S & I) at various locations in India and abroad, into construction stage by crossing hurdles of various statutory clearances.

4.     Maximisation of shareholders’ value while ensuring fairness to other stakeholders including employees, project affected people and investors.

5.     Last but not the least, enhancing the effectiveness of manpower, the human resource, to meet the above challenges of organisational growth.

We live in an age driven by ideas and strong vision. I am a firm believer in the power of ideas. I strongly feel that SJVN has enormous intellectual and conceptual power in which we are second to none in the industry. The construction and operation of 1500 MW NJHPS is the glowing example.

The aforesaid challenges, however, further demand from you greater level of commitment, excellence and performance. Quoting the conclusion from “ High Five” by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles, I’d say that the shared goals outlined in the five main challenges can be achieved by “unleashing and developing skills, creating team power and keeping the accent on the positive” in the SJVN.

The SJVN has, like you, lot of people whose ideas and ambitions are global. You are, I am sure, arduously working towards well understood and shared goals. To reassure the success of SJVN I take this opportunity to exhort all SJVNites to know and personally feel attached to these shared goals. We will try to provide the best environment for unleashing and developing your skill and creating better opportunities for career growth.

To steer the future of SJVN, let’s unite our total strength, stay committed to excellence and high performance and work together as a team for success. Remember five major challenges, the SJVN facing, containing shared goals.

Nothing great was ever achieved without commitment and enthusiasm. Let’s try. You are an important member of SJVN TEAM and I need your constructive cooperation and support to make it the most admired organisation.

Dated: 22 March 2011                                                                               

(Nand Lal Sharma)