Question : EMPLOYMENT BY NHPC

(a) whether the National Hydro Power Corporation has provided employment to the local people where hydel power projects have either been completed or under construction in the country;

(b) if so, the number of people provided employment under various categories of posts along with names of the concerned projects providing the employment, State-wise;

(c) whether the Himachal Pradesh Government has signed any MoU with NHPC for fixing certain percentage for the purpose of providing employment in Parvati Hydel Power Project in the categories of employees of Class I, II, III and IV to the local people;

(d) if so, the details thereof; and

(e) the number of the local people provided employment under each category in the Parvati Hydel Power Project so far?

THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF POWER( SHRIMATI JAYAWANTI MEHTA )

(a) to (e) : National Hydro-electric Power Corporation (NHPC) has provided employment to the local people in its projects in accordance with the agreements/understanding with the concerned State Governments.

The scope for fresh employment in the new projects is for the present limited since the projects are not being executed departmentally and existing surplus staff needs to be redeployed.

As per the agreement dated 20.11.1998 entered with Government of Himachal Pradesh for hydroelectric projects on river Parbati, 30% of the staff at executive level will be taken on deputation from HPSEB, subject to their suitability and all the unskilled Class III and IV staff required for the execution of the project after deployment of surplus workers from other projects of the Corporation will be recruited through employment exchanges located in Himachal Pradesh. Parbati H.E. Project Stage-I and Stage-III are under survey & investigation while Parbati Stage-II is under pre-construction stage. NHPC has so far met its requirement in these projects by re-deploying its existing surplus workers from other projects of the Corporation in accordance with the agreement entered with the Government of Himachal Pradesh.