By OUR STAFF REPORTER
Shimla, 3 Sep: SJVN has been conferred the prestigious Dun & Bradstreet – Corporate Award 2021 in the category of Best Growth Performance-Power. The award was presented in a virtual conference titled India’s Top 500 Companies 2021. The Guest of Honour was Dr Bibek Debroy, Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM), and the Special Guest was Dr Krishnamurthy Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor, Union Ministry of Finance. The event showcased the performances of front runners among India Corporates.
Nand Lal Sharma, Chairman & Managing Director, SJVN, has been in the forefront of turning SJVN into a diversified multinational power company with operation and construction of projects in India, Nepal and Bhutan. Starting out as a purely hydropower company, with Sharma in the leadership, SJVN today has ventured into Thermal Power, Wind and Solar energy generation, and into electricity transmission also.
With a robust portfolio of 31 projects of about 10,000 MW in the pipeline, SJVN for itself has set an ambitious target of achieving 5000 MW installed capacity by 2023, 12000 MW by 2030 and 25000 MW by 2040.
The event, with the central theme ‘Laying the Foundations for an ESG-Ready Corporate India’, featured keynote addresses by several dignitaries and the presentation of Corporate Awards 2021. The event also featured the digital launch of the publication India’s Top 500 Companies 2021.
For more than two decades, Dun & Bradstreet has been compiling the list of India’s Top 500 Companies, which represent the leaders among Corporate India, and the driving force of the Indian economy.