Decommissioning of Thermal Power Station I at NLC deferred

CUDDALORE: 

         The 49-year-old Thermal Power Station I at Neyveli, which was nearing its extended life, will not be decomissioned for another five years following requests from the Tamil Nadu government and Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB), Neyveli Lignite Corporation has said. AR Ansari, Chairman-cum-Managing Director, NLC, said it had been decided earlier to taper down the power generation at the 600 mw power station in phases between 2011 and 2014. The power station was built in 1962 with Soviet assistance and is one of the oldest power plants in the country.

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Coal Ministry to play fair in NTPC-NLC tussle for coal blocks

    

    NLC’s request would be considered along with other companies at the time of bidding for blocks.

  In the tussle for coal blocks between power generator NTPC Ltd and Lignite miner Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC), the coal ministry has decided to play fair. It will entertain its public sector undertaking NLC's request for the allocation of blocks that earlier belonged to NTPC, only along with other companies during the bidding rounds that are due soon.

        The ministry had cancelled the allocation of five of the eight NTPC blocks earlier this year, alleging undue delays in their development. The power ministry had later intervened by requesting its coal sector counterpart to review its decision. While negotiations between the two ministries are still on, NLC has sought the allocation of three of the five blocks—Chatti Bariatu, Chatti Bariatu (South) and Kerandari.

        A senior coal ministry official told Business Standard there was no provision for allocating the blocks to NLC on a nomination basis. “There is a proper procedure that will be followed for allocation. NLC's request would be considered along with other companies at the time of bidding for blocks,” he said.

           The three blocks sought by NLC for power generation are located in Jharkhand and have combined reserves of over 800 million tonne (Mt). NLC's contentious demands, if met, would mark Lignite miner's foray into coal mining and coal-based power generation. It would also dent NTPC's long-term fuel securing strategy. NLC has a current lignite-based power generation capacity of 2,700 Mw and it plans to add another 5,000 Mw by setting up two coal-based plants of 2,000 Mw capacity each in Uttar Pradesh and Tamilnadu, and another 1,000 Mw plant in Tamilnadu. NLC's proposed plants would require around 20 Mt of coal annually. An e-mail sent to NLC Chairman A R Ansari for comments remained unanswered.

           NTPC is, however, hopeful of getting back the lost blocks. “NTPC is working full swing on these blocks on land acquisition, forest and environment clearance and we do not think our blocks would be taken,” said a senior company official. The Maharatna enterprise currently consumes around 150 Mt of coal to operate 36,000 Mw capacity annually. Its coal requirement is set to grow to 250 Mt by 2017, around 20 per cent of which would be met through captive coal production.

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NLC got 2nd Asia’s Best Employer Awards

 

         Shri S.K. Acharya, Director (HR) (third from left) receiving the HR Leadership Award’ by World HRD Congress in 2nd Asia’s Best Employer Awards ceremony 2011 at Singapore

           Shri S.K. Acharya, Director (HR) of Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd has been awarded the prestigious “HR leadership Award” by ‘World HRD Congress’ and the ‘Employer Branding Institute’ for his outstanding contribution in the field of Human Resource. The Award was conferred on him in the 2nd Asia’s Best Employer Awards Ceremony held at SUNTEC CITY, Singapore on 22ndJuly 2011.

            A passionate professional, Shri Acharya is known for his innovative approach to HR policies and practices that he has been demonstrating over last 3 decades of his career starting with Heavy Engineering Sector (BHEL), Power Sector (NTPC and NTPC - SAIL Power Co.) and now in Mining cum Power Sector as Director (HR) on the Board of NLC Ltd. With his motto ‘people at core’ he goes beyond the traditional mould of HR aligning people practices with business model of the organization.

             A widely traveled and well trained person in India and abroad, Shri Acharya lends his services in academics as a visiting faculty to many premier Business Schools and Management Institutions. As a life member of National Institute of Personnel Management (NIPM), Chairman, NIPM Neyveli Chapter and as member, HR committee of Standing Conference of Public Enterprises (SCOPE), India, he is actively associated with promotional activities for enriching HR profession as a whole.  

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NLC seeks coal assets in Indonesia, South Africa

          India’s Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited (NLC) is seeking to acquire coal assets in Indonesia and South Africa through joint ventures (JVs) with local companies.

        The acquisitions would be used to source feedstock for the company’s expansion and greenfield thermal power projects in India. The coal blocks to be acquired in Indonesia and South Africa through JVs would be linked as raw material sources for NLC’s ongoing thermal power projects, like the thermal power station II expansion of two 250 MW units and the Tuticorin thermal power project, comprising two 500 MW units located in the southern Indian town of Tuticorin.

         NLC had taken a strategic decision to reduce lignite mining operations because of problems of land acquisition and mining of hard rock surfaces in the country and instead leverage its mining capabilities to develop mines overseas and expand thermal power generating capacities within India, linked to its overseas assets, company officials said. NLC might even consider two separate JV partners for Indonesia and South Africa.

         However, a final decision will be taken only after geological confirmation of the coal reserves and commercial proposals to be submitted by proposed JV partners, the officials said. NLC would be willing to transport the coal extracted from overseas blocks in Indonesia and South Africa in its entirety to domestic thermal power plants or share the extracted coal with its proposed JV partner, depending on the agreement that may be concluded between the companies and the mineable reserves of the blocks acquired.

        Meanwhile, NLC has proposed setting up a 1 000 MW coal-based power plant in Ib Valley in the eastern India state of Orissa in collaboration with Mahanadi Coalfields (MCL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Coal India, the world’s largest coal miner. The project would entail an investment of $1-billion. NLC and MCL have a separate JV to develop a coal reserve in Talabira, Orissa that will produce 20-million tons of coal a year, part of which would be linked to feed the Ib Valley power project.

           NLC, which operates predominantly in southern India, has three lignite reserves that produces 10.5-million tons, three-million tons and 10.5-million tons of lignite respectively. The company also operates three lignite-based power plants in southern India with generating capacities of 600 MW, 1 470 MW and 420 MW respectively.

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NLC to adopt e-contract system

CUDDALORE: 

          The Neyveli Lignite Corporation, a Navratna company, will soon adopt the e-contract system to ensure transparency in the execution of works assigned on a contractual basis. The Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, has been working on the project, according to A.R.Ansari, Chairman-cum-Managing Director, NLC.

         He was addressing a meeting convened on the NLC premises for reviewing and evaluating the Integrity Pact programme, attended by independent external monitors and senior executives. Mr Ansari said that already the e-auction, e-procurement, e-payment and e-tender systems were in vogue in the NLC. These measures would ensure transparency in the functioning of the NLC and give no room for criticism. The pact had come into force after a Memorandum of Understanding was signed with the Transparency International (India) on December 29, 2007.

           The pact provided for ethical practices and honest dealings with the suppliers, service providers and contractors, and, would be applicable to the contracts valued at Rs 1 crore and above. The implementation of the pact was being monitored by the government machinery and independent external monitors. The present review meeting was held to make the officials and the contractors familiarise with the guidelines of the pact and to sort out the problems, if any, that might crop up while awarding or executing the contracts.

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NLC celebrates 54th raising day

NEYVELI: 

      The Neyveli Lignite Corporation today celebrated its 54th raising day at a function held at the corporate office here in which Chairman-cum-Managing Director A.R. Ansari hoisted the newly launched public sector flag.

          The flag was introduced by President Pratibha Patil last month in recognition of the significant role played by the public sector undertakings in the country's economy. With 15 lakh employees, these organisations were contributing 12 per cent of the Gross Domestic Products (GDP). Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Ansari recounted the travails underwent by the NLC ever since former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru inaugurated the lignite mining operation here on May 20, 1957.

          The Chairman said that on the occasion Nehru observed that “there should be a push towards industrial development. This lignite project promises to give that push.” He hoped that with NLC could rise to the Maha Navratna status by increasing its power generation capacity to 15,000 MW and turnover to Rs 20,000 crores. He categorically said that the NLC was aggressively pursuing its goal of tapping renewable sources of energy such as wind and solar power. However, it would not venture into hydro-power and nuclear power projects because of long their gestation period and capital-intensive nature.

         Mr. Ansari underscored the point that in the highly competitive environment the NLC would have to focus on achieving cost effectiveness or in other words cutting the cost of production and hoped that the officials and employees would cooperate with the management in this endeavour. NLC Directors B.Surender Mohan, R.Kandasamy, K.Sekar, J.Mahilselvan and S.K.Acharya and others participated.

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Section of workers in Neyveli Township lacks amenities: Cuddalore MP K.S. Alagiri

CUDDALORE: 

        K.S. Alagiri, Cuddalore MP, has expressed happiness over the Neyveli Lignite Corporation having earned the coveted Navratna status.

       In a letter to NLC Chairman-cum-Managing Director A.R.Ansari on Thursday, he said that with the elevated status, the corporate social responsibility of the company would get accentuated. Mr. Alagiri said that a section of workforce domiciled in Block Nos. 21 and 30 of Neyveli Township for the past 25 years was lacking certain basic amenities. It was an irony that though they were living in the Neyveli Township, their houses were engulfed in darkness because the NLC was not supplying them electricity.

          The NLC had imposed a heavy financial burden on them by asking them to pay rent for their occupancy with retrospective effect. Mr Alagiri suggested that the NLC calculate the rent for their occupancy from the date of conferment of the Navratna status as it would not only alleviate the sufferings of the working class but also improve industrial relations. NLC sources said the company had made its stand very clear, time and again, that if they comply with the rules and regulations of the public sector undertaking, they would be entitled to occupancy rights and electricity connection.

         A section of the residents there had started paying land lease, fixed on an annual basis, and electricity bill. However, a group of people, who considered themselves above law, were unduly staking their claim to the amenities without any rights. Sources said the NLC management is ready to improve the living standard of the workforce, provided they respect the rules.

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NLC makes public its Navratna status

CUDDALORE: 

           The Neyveli Lignite Corporation today made public its Navratna status, 35 days after it was conferred by President Pratibha Patil in New Delhi on April 11, 2011.

 

         Revealing this fact at a press conference held at Neyveli on Tuesday, NLC Chairman-cum-Managing Director A.R. Ansari said that now the public sector enterprise had been elevated from the Mini-Navratna to Navratna status, based on its continuous excellence in performance in terms of electricity generation, lignite mining and turnover. Mr. Ansari said that the honour could not have been possible without the full cooperation of the officials, employees and the workforce. All these days, the NLC could not announce its exalted status because the Model Code of Conduct was in force on account of the Assembly elections. The Navratna status brings with it financial and administrative autonomy for the NLC, as hereafter it could decide on its own projects in the country. However, for taking up joint ventures and investing

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என்.எல்.சி.க்கு வைகோ பாராட்டு

மதிமுக பொதுச்செயலர் வைகோ வெளியிட்ட அறிக்கையில்,

               "இந்திய பொதுத்துறை நிறுவனங்களில் சிறப்பான வளர்ச்சி பெற்று விளங்கும் நெய்வேலி பழுப்பு நிலக்கரி நிறுவனம், தமிழ்நாட்டுக்குப் பெருமை சேர்த்து வருகிறது. நாட்டின் உயிர்நாடியான மின்உற்பத்தித் துறையில் என்.எல்.சி. நிறுவனம் தொடர்ந்து சாதனையைப் படைத்து வருகிறது.

                கடந்த நிதி ஆண்டில் 1788 கோடி யூனிட் மின்சார உற்பத்தி செய்து சிறப்பான இடத்தைப் பெற்றதுடன் ரூ. 1,247 கோடி லாபம் ஈட்டி என்.எல்.சி. நிறுவனம் சாதனை புரிந்து உள்ளது. எனவே, என்.எல்.சி. நிறுவனத்தின் வெற்றி மகுடத்தில் நவரத்னா என்னும் ரத்தினக்கல் இந்திய அரசால் பொறிக்கப்பட்டு இருக்கிறது.

               பொதுத்துறை நிறுவனங்களின் மதிப்புமிக்க உயரிய நவரத்னா விருதைப் பெற்றுள்ள என்.எல்.சி. நிறுவனத்தின் அதிபர், இயக்குனர்கள் மற்றும் என்.எல்.சி. வளர்ச்சிக்காக உழைத்து வரும் தொழிலாளர்கள், பொறியாளர்கள், ஒப்பந்தத் தொழிலாளர்கள் அனைவருக்கும் வாழ்த்துகளையும், பாராட்டுகளையும் தெரிவித்துக் கொள்கிறேன். என்.எல்.சி. மென்மேலும் வளர்ந்து மகாரத்னா விருதையும் பெற்றிட வாழ்த்துவதுடன், என்.எல்.சி. பொதுத்துறை நிறுவனமாக ஒளிவீசித் திகழ்ந்திட மதிமுக உறுதுணையாக இருக்கும் என்பதையும் தெரிவித்துக் கொள்கிறேன்’’ என்று குறிப்பிட்டுள்ளார்.

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Fire-fighting equipment, rescue operation demonstrated

CUDDALORE: 

          The Fire Service Week observed by the Fire Wing of the Central Industrial Security Forces (CISF), deployed in the Neyveli Lignite Corporation, concluded here on Wednesday.

   Speaking on the occasion, Hardeep Singh, Senior Commandant of the CISF, said that its fire wing was inducted in the NLC on January 14, 2011 with the sanctioned strength of 272 personnel.

Safety measures

         It was now providing safety measures to the thermal power stations and in the second phase of induction, safety aspects of the mines would be taken care of. The personnel demonstrated the working of fire-fighting equipment and rescue operation on the occasion. NLC director (mines) B. Surender Mohan appreciated the works done by the CISF, who were also rendering assistance to the people living in the peripheral areas. Other directors of the NLC R. Kandasamy (projects and planning), K. Sekar (finance), S.K. Acharya (human resources) and Chief Vigilance Officer K.S. Padmanabhan were present. Prizes were distributed to winners of various competitions conducted on the occasion.

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NLC gets three modern indoor badminton courts

Brisk opening: NLC Chairman-cum-Managing Director A.R.Ansari (left) playing the maiden game after inaugurating the modern badminton court on NLC premises at Neyveli.

CUDDALORE: 

          The Neyveli Lignite Corporation has got another much-needed sporting facility in the form of three modern indoor badminton courts of national standards. These are meant to promote sports, recreational avenues and health aspects of the employees and their wards.

           The facility was thrown open to the employees by NLC Chairman-cum-Managing Director A.R.Ansari last Sunday in the presence of Director (Mines) Surender Mohan, Executive Director (Contracts) B.Sivagnanam and head of the research wing S.Santhanam. Speaking on the occasion, Mr Ansari said that sporting activity was a must for keeping good health and to nurture team spirit. Sports would not only develop physical fitness but would also instil confidence among the players to forge ahead.

           The CMD further said that the badminton courts had all sorts of modern facilities such as wooden flooring, floodlights and 15-metre high ceiling, all of national standards. NLC could already boast two swimming pools of national standards and two more swimming pools of international standards were under construction. Mr Ansari hoped that the employees and their wards would properly utilise the facilities to excel in sports activities to win laurels at the State, national and international events. The Chairman also played an exhibition match at the new badminton court.

           The NLC sources said that the Lignite City Club had been taking care of all sporting activities, besides conducting zonal and State-level events periodically. The Club had under its purview a modern gymnasium, table-tennis courts, tennis courts, billiard and snooker games, besides golf and swimming. Another significant aspect about the Club was that it had engaged qualified coaches for all the sports and they had a keen eye for spotting the budding talents and duly equipping them to excel in their chosen events.

         Since the Club was catering to the in-house requirements, there was a sense of exclusivity and much-needed privacy to practise to one's heart's content. The Club had also been successfully motivating the talented sportspersons to develop competitive spirit.

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NLC women's forum bags award

CUDDALORE: 

         The Neyveli Lignite Corporation chapter of the Women in Public Sector (WIPS) has bagged the ‘Best Enterprise Award-2010' in appreciation of its community development initiatives.

        It is for the fourth time that the WIPS has won the laurels. In all, 246 public sector enterprises from all over the country competed for the honour in the 21st national meet of the national forum of Women in Public Sector held recently in Chennai. Of these, the NLC forum has been placed second, according to a statement issued from the NLC. The award has been instituted by the national WIPS, functioning under the aegis of the Standing Conference of Public Enterprises (SCOPE).

           It stated that the award was handed over to the NLC chapter WIPS office-bearers by U.D.Choubey, SCOPE Director-General, in the presence of NLC Director (Planning and Projects) R.Kandasamy. NLC-WIPS president C.Darani Mouli, secretary R.Vanaja and treasurer S.Vijalakshmi also participated. The statement said that the NLC chapter of the WIPS had been consistently striving for the growth of not only members but also of the communities in the region.

          It had been carrying out many welfare schemes for improving the lots of widows, destitute women, differently-abled persons and students of economically backward sections. Recently, the WIPS organised an exclusive “cancer screening camp” for the women employees of the NLC in which about 1,100 employees were screened and necessary medical guidance given. The forum had also been avidly promoting arts and culture, by encouraging the budding artists to stage many a programme, besides taking concrete steps for protection of environment.

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Residents protest NLC action

CUDDALORE: 

         People living near Block 21 of the Neyveli township protested the Neyveli Lignite Corporation's move to cut unauthorised power connections in the area on Saturday.

         About 300 residents, including 200 women, gathered around NLC officials and prevented them from disconnecting the unauthorised power connections to households. As the protest intensified, the NLC officials suspended the operation. As many as 3,500 tenements, including huts and brick structures, had come up at the place.

        Residents alleged that though they possessed ration cards and electors' photo identity cards, the NLC management was yet to recognise them as authorised dwellers of the area. NLC sources said that to find a solution to the long-pending issue, the management had made an announcement that the households that pay the prescribed fees within the stipulated period would be given power connections.

          While a section of residents complied with the NLC direction, others did not. This prompted the NLC management to take action against those households tapping power lines, the sources said.

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Call to control price variations of lignite

CUDDALORE: 

            Chairman-cum-Managing Director of Neyveli Lignite Corporation A.R. Ansari has said that it is difficult to supply lignite at fixed prices to industries because this factor is controlled by the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission.

           Moreover, the prices are also determined by stripping ratio and groundwater control. The price of lignite is going up owing to higher compensation to be paid to land providers and increased prices of specialised mining equipment and their maintenance, Mr. Ansari said. A statement from the NLC said that Mr. Ansari was addressing the inaugural meeting of the Regional Coal Consumers' Council (RCCC), constituted by the Union Ministry of Coal, in his capacity as its chairman at the NLC corporate office at Neyveli on Tuesday.

         Representatives of big, small and tiny industries participated in the meeting. They put forth the demands that price variations in lignite should be controlled to the possible extent, quality assurance given, supply be carried out through Fuel Supply Agreement (FSA) and the lifting time for lignite increased. Mr. Ansari said that low grade lignite should be consumed first and high grade fuel conserved for the future. For effecting the sale through the FSA, it might require a dedicated mine for which the approval of the Union Ministry of Coal was a must.

          He ruled out the possibility of extending the FSA system to consumers because small buyers, particularly in the brick kiln industry, were facing difficulties in importing the fuel.

A statement from the NLC said that the main objectives of the Council were to look into the grievances of the consumers, their lignite requirements and supply of lignite in a transparent manner to the genuine buyers. After utilisation of lignite for its power plants, the NLC had been selling lignite to the cement, chemical, sugar, paper and brick industries. In all, 10 big industries and 57 small and tiny units were participating in the e-auction for lignite.

          The NLC had been supplying 19 lakh tonnes of lignite annually to a private power plant at Neyveli. NLC directors B.Surender Mohan (Mines) and R.Kandasamy (Planning and Projects) and representatives of the industries were present.

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Mahilselvan is new Director (Power) of NLC

CUDDALORE: 

         The Centre has appointed J. Mahilselvan, Director (Power), Neyveli Lignite Corporation, subsequent to the superannuation of V. Seetharaman. He assumed office on Saturday. Before getting elevated, Mr. Mahilselvan was serving as Chief General Manager (Power Station Engineering Department), NLC.

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NLC conducts computer skills programme for wards of project-affected persons

CUDDALORE: 

            The Neyveli Lignite Corporation has imparted training in basic computer skills to the wards of project-affected persons. Being conducted as part of an entrepreneurial development programme, as many as 34 women have benefited from the training, according to P. Babu Rao, director (personnel), NLC.

             He was speaking at a function organised on the NLC campus at Neyveli here to distribute certificates to those who had completed the 19-day training programme. Mr. Rao said that the candidates were selected by the Training and Development Unit and the Land Acquisition Department of the NLC for the programme. They were wards of persons who were displaced from the villages of Melpapanapattu, Periyakurichi, Neyveli, Uyyakondaravi, Keelpaathy, Uthangal, Kottagam, Managathy and Parvathipuram. Mr. Rao said that as part of the corporate social responsibility policy adopted by the NLC, entrepreneurial development programme was being organised for the project-affected persons on the training complex.

               Many persons were trained in carpentry, tailoring, domestic electrical wiring, heavy vehicle driving, etc., and resource persons were drawn from the Gandhigram University. Mr. Rao called upon the Land Acquisition Department to provide computers at community centres of the villages to help the candidates update their skills. Deputy General Manager of Training and Development Unit (NLC) N. Balaji said it was for the first time that the NLC had decided to pay a cash incentive of Rs. 1,500 to each of the candidates. Such incentive would be given to all the candidates undergoing training in future programmes, he said. Chief General Managers C. Senthamilselvan and A. Lourdes, General Manager N.P. Veerasigamani were present.

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NLC Launches Clean-up Drive

CUDDALORE: 

         The Neyveli Lignite Corporation has initiated measures to make the Neyveli township a plastic free area.

        It launched a two-day clean-up drive on Tuesday as part of the measures. P. Babu Rao, NLC Director (Personnel), inaugurated the exercise, in which 400 volunteers participated. They were given the task of collecting non-biogradable waste such as plastic covers, plastic cups, water sachets etc., found on the roads and public utilities in the township. Mr. Rao recalled that the NLC management had already imposed a ban in August 2009 on the use of plastic bags by shops and establishments, residents and the general public in the township.

பி.டி.எப் கோப்பாக பதிவிறக்கம் செய்ய

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Production at NLC Mine-II to touch 15 million tonnes

 

 

Enhanced yield:Union Minister of State for Coal, Statistics and Programme implementation (independent charge) Sriprakash Jaiswal dedicating the project to the nation at Neyveli on Monday.

CUDDALORE: 

           Union Minister of State (Independent charge) for Coal, Statistics and Programme Implementation Sriprakash Jaiswal dedicated the Rs.2,295.93-crore Mine-II expansion project of Neyveli Lignite Corporation to the nation on Monday.

             Speaking on the occasion on the NLC campus the Minister said with the commencement of the project the lignite production in Mine-II would go up from 10.5 million tonnes to 15 million tonnes an year and it would also fuel the requirements of the Thermal Power Station-II Expansion (500 MW). It was estimated that the expanded mining area had lignite reserves of 215 million tonnes with a 30-year project life. In appreciation of the efforts put in by the employees and the contract workmen for the completion of the project, the Minister announced a cash award of Rs.3,000 and Rs.1,500 respectively as one-time payment.

                   Mr. Jaiswal said that former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had visualised industries as the symbols of development and catalysts for growth and the NLC had made the vision a reality. The country had achieved a growth rate of 7 to 8 per cent to sustain the momentum and to attain the goal of 10 per cent growth, infrastructure development was a must and in this aspect electricity occupied a primary position. For the growth of the industry and to make power available at affordable cost to all the people the Centre had taken up various steps for augmenting power generation. For instance to bridge the supply-demand gap it had evolved the National Electricity Policy to focus on generation, transmission and distribution to meet the requirements of each and every household.

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NLC expands green cover

CUDDALORE: 

            The Neyveli Lignite Corporation has intensified its efforts to expand greenery on its campus. So far it has raised about two crore saplings in reclaimed mined areas, according to S. Kumarasamy, General Manager, Mine-II and Expansion. He was speaking at the World Forestry Day celebrations held recently on the NLC campus.

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குழந்தைகளுக்கு பெற்றோர் வழி காட்டியாக இருக்க வேண்டும் : என்.எல்.சி., சேர்மன்'அட்வைஸ்'

நெய்வேலி:

                        பெற்றோர்கள் தங்களது எண்ணங்களை குழந்தைகள் மீது திணிப்பது தவறு என என்.எல்.சி., சேர்மன் அன்சாரி பேசினார். தமிழ்நாடு அறிவியல் மையம் சார்பில் நெய்வேலி லிக்னைட் அரங்கில் தேசிய அறிவியல் தினம் நடந்தது. அறிவியல் மற்றும் தொழில் நட்பத் தகவல் தொடர்பு தேசியக் குழுவின் இணை செயலாளர் ராமலிங்கம் தலைமை தாங்கினார். நெய்வேலி மைய செயலாளர் தாமோதரன் வரவேற்றார். பள்ளி, மாணவர்களின் அறிவியல் கண் காட்சி அரங்கை என். எல்.சி., கல்வித் துறை பொது மேலாளர் சுகுமார் திறந்து வைத்தார்.

                       தேசிய அறிவியல் தின போட்டிகளில் வெற்றி பெற்றவர்களக்கு பரிசு மற் றும் சான்றிதழும், அறிவியல் கண்காட்சியில் சிறந்த காட்சி பொருளை வடிவமைத்திருந்த மாணவர்களுக்கு சர்.சி.வி. ராமன், சுபாஷ் சந்திர போஸ் மற்றும் டாக்டர் ஏ.பி.ஜே. அப்துல் கலாம் விருதுகளை வழங்கிய என்.எல்.சி., சேர்மன் அன்சாரி பேசியதாவது:உலகில் நாம் பார்ப்பது அனைத்தும் அறிவியல் கோட்பாடுகளின் படியே நடந்து வருகின்றன. நம் நாடு வெள்ளையர்கள் ஆட்சியின் கீழ் இருந்த நேரத்தில் சுதந்திர போராட்டம் நடந்து கொண்டிருந்த சூழலில் சர்.சி.வி. ராமன் தனது மிகச் சிறந்த கண்டுபிடிப்பால் நோபல் பரிசு பெற்று நமது நாட்டிற்கு பெருமை தேடி தந்தார்.

                     ஒவ்வொரு குழந்தைக்கும் தனித் திறமைகள் உள்ளன. அதனை உணர்ந்து பெற் றோர்கள் தங்களது எதிர் பார்ப்புகளை அமைத்து கொள்ள வேண்டும். தங்களின் ஆசைகளை குழந்தைகள் மீது திணிப்பது தவறு. 16 வயதிற்குள் நடக்கும் சம்பவங்கள் குழந்தைகளின் மனதில் வெகு ஆழமாக பதிந்து விடுகின்றன. அதனால் அத்தருணம் வரை பெற்றோர்கள் அவர் களுக்கு சிறந்த முன்மாதிரியாக வழி காட்ட வேண்டும். அதனை விடுத்து, தங்களது எதிர்கால கனவுகளை நிறைவேற்றும் வகையில் குழந்தைகளை வளர்க்கக்கூடாது.இவ்வாறு அன்சாரி பேசினார். நிகழ்ச்சி ஏற்பாடுகளை தமிழ்நாடு அறிவியல் இயக்க மாநில செயற்குழு உறுப்பினர் நாராயணன், நெய்வேலி மையத்தின் தலைவர் செல்வராஜ், ராஜகோபால், ரவீந்திரன் ஆகியோர் செய்திருந்தனர்.

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