National Power Training Institute

National Power Training Institute (NPTI)

राष्ट्रीय ऊर्जा प्रशिक्षण संस्थान
Motto	Praveenyam Paropavarthishcha
Motto in English	Together in Pursuit of Excellence
Established	1965
Director General	Prof. (Dr.) R.K. Pandey
Location	28°27′44″N 77°18′53″E / 28.462222°N 77.314722°E / 28.462222; 77.314722Coordinates: 28°27′44″N 77°18′53″E / 28.462222°N 77.314722°E / 28.462222; 77.314722
Headquarters	Faridabad, Haryana, India
Website	npti.in

The National Power Training Institute (NPTI) (Hindi: राष्ट्रीय विधुत प्रशिक्षण प्रतिष्ठान), an ISO 9001 & ISO 14001 organisation, is a National Apex body in India for training and human resources development in the power sector with industry specific technical interface and is the only institution of its kind in India catering to the core power Sector and allied energy sector apart from University of petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun. It is an autonomous body under Ministry of Power, Government of India and caters to the training needs of the power industry in India and abroad. The corporate office of NPTI is at Faridabad, Haryana. NPTI operates on an all India basis through its units in different zones of the country.

The Central Water and Power Commission (Power Wing) established Thermal Power Station Personnel Training Institutes in 1965–1975 at Neyveli (1965), Durgapur (1968), Badarpur, Delhi (1974) and Nagpur (1975) for training the engineers of thermal power stations which were being established in the country during that time. It also established the Power Systems Training Institute (PSTI) in 1972 and Hot Line Training Centre (HLTC) in 1974 at Bangalore. With the bifurcation of the Central Water and Power Commission into the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) and Central Water Commission (CWC) in the 1970s, the Institute came under the Central Electricity Authority (CEA). In the late 1970s the Raj Dekshya Committee set up by the Government of India to improve the power sector of the country recommended among many things formal training for the personnel employed in the power industry. Accordingly the Indian Electricity Rule was amended to make training mandatory for the personnel employed in the generating stations and associated sub stations. With this the Thermal Power Station Personnel Training Institutes under the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) were carved out and formed into a separate autonomous body under the Ministry of Power as the Power Engineers Training Society (PETS) in 1980 to give more importance to Power Training and to have an accelerated growth of the Institutes. Later, in 1993 Power Engineers Training Society (PETS) was renamed as National Power Training Institute (NPTI). Power Systems Training Institute (PSTI) and Hot Line Training Centre (HLTC) was merged with NPTI in 2002.