Tata Power : subsidiary CGPL organizes awareness program on World No Tobacco Day in Mundra

Tata Power, India's largest integrated power company, through its 100 per cent subsidiary Coastal Gujarat Power Ltd (CGPL), strongly believes in promoting holistic health and wellbeing of its employees and stakeholders. In keeping with this commitment, CGPL organized an awareness program for its employees and stakeholders about ill effects of tobacco and motivate employees to abstain from it, on the occasion of World No Tobacco Day 2016. The program instilled willpower in 150 participants to quit tobacco.

The program focused on sensitizing employees and associates of CGPL on the most likely sources of tobacco and its products, ill effects of consuming tobacco based products, ways to quit consuming tobacco products, and the benefits associated with quitting tobacco. The medical team of CGPL ensured that the program was interactive, wherein participants were encouraged to share their experiences of dependency on tobacco based products, and providing valuable professional guidance on ways to reduce dependency and tips to quit tobacco.

Speaking on this initiative, Mr. K. K. Sharma, CEO and ED - CGPL, said 'It's our constant endeavour to improve and promote a healthy lifestyle among our employees and stakeholders. To this effect, we conduct various preventive and educative health related workshops for our employees and stakeholders across India. Through the World No Tobacco Day, we have tried to educate our employees and stakeholders on the ill effects of tobacco; while also equipping them with ways of quitting this addictive habit.'

World No Tobacco Day is one of the eight official global public health campaigns set up by WHO and is observed on May 31. It is intended to encourage a 24-hour period of abstinence from all forms of tobacco consumption including smoking, chewing tobacco, sniffing, and the like. The day is further earmarked to draw attention to the widespread prevalence of tobacco use and its negative health effects, which currently lead to nearly 6 million deaths each year worldwide, including 600,000 of which are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke.

About Tata Power: Tata Power is India's largest integrated power company with a growing international presence. The Company together with its subsidiaries and jointly controlled entities has an installed gross generation capacity of 9184 MW and a presence in all the segments of the power sector viz. Fuel Security and Logistics, Generation (thermal, hydro, solar and wind), Transmission, Distribution and Trading. It has successful public-private partnerships in Generation, Transmission and Distribution in India namely 'Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited' with Delhi Vid yut Board for distribution in North Delhi, 'Powerlinks Transmission Ltd.' with Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. for evacuation of Power from Tala hydro plant in Bhutan to Delhi and 'Maithon Power Ltd.' with Damodar Valley Corporation for a 1050 MW Mega Power Project at Jharkhand. Tata Power is serving more than 2 million distribution consumers in India and has developed the country's first 4000 MW Ultra Mega Power Project at Mundra (Gujarat) based on super-critical technology. It is also one of the largest renewable energy players in India with a clean energy portfolio of 1749 MW. Its international presence includes strategic investments in Indonesia through a 30% stake in the leading coal company PT Kaltim Prima Coal (KPC), 26% stake in mines at PT Baramulti Suksessarana Tbk ('BSSR'); in Singapore through Trust Energy Resources to securitize coal supply and the shipping of coal for its thermal power generation operations; in South Africa through a joint venture called 'Cennergi' to develop projects in sub-Sahara Africa; in Zambia through 50:50 joint venture with ZESCO for 120 MW Hydro which has become operational in 2016; in Georgia through AGL which is a joint venture with Clean Energy, Norway & IFC for development of 185 MW hydro project which is scheduled to be commissioned in 2016; in Australia through investments in enhanced geothermal and clean coal technologies and in Bhutan through a hydro project in partnership with The Royal Government of Bhutan. With its track record of technology leadership, project execution excellence, world class safety processes, customer care and driving green initiatives, Tata Power is poised for a multi-fold growth and committed to 'lighting up lives' for generations to come'. Visit us at: www.tatapower.com