NEW DELHI: State-run energy companies are focusing on filling the gender diversity gap with new initiatives. The country’s largest power producer NTPC is launching a special recruitment drive only for women executives coinciding with the World Women’s Day on Monday, while flagship explorer ONGC has been adding about 100 women in hard-core technical streams in every batch of appointments in recent times.
NTPC has become the first energy company in the country to launch a special recruitment drive for women. The company has about 18,000 employees and is offering additional incentives such as waiving application fee for women to fill the gender diversity gap, the company said in a statement on Sunday.
ONGC, on the other hand, has been pursuing a steady course to improve gender diversity. “ONGC has added about 500 women to its workforce in the last five recruitment drives. Some 80% of these 500 women recruited are from technical streams like drilling, production, geology and geophysics etc. In legal discipline too women are doing exceedingly well,” ONGC director (HR) Alka Mittal told TOI.
