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Tata Power Skill Development Institute - ShahadCentre for Excellence for Power System Skills

About TPSDITata Power Company is India’s largest integrated power company with a presence across all the segments of the power sector - Generation (thermal, hydro, solar, and wind), Transmission, Distribution, Fuel Security & Logistics, and Power Trading. Tata Power has been lighting up lives in the nation for over a hundred years. In 2015, its centenary year of operations, Tata Power, true to the Tata Group philosophy of giving back to the society a significant portion of its earnings, has launched the Tata Power Skill Development Institute as a non-profit corporate social responsibility initiative under the Tata Power Community Development Trust.

TPSDI is mandated to provide modular training and certification in power sector and allied skills leading to employability and advancement. TPSDI harnesses the rich experience of Tata Power employees to bring “Power Skills for Life!” to prepare youth and others for the huge opportunities coming up in the power sector in the country. TPSDI is setting up five integrated training centers across India of which, TPSDI - Shahad is the first one.

TPSDI - Shahad

Centre for NCTVT - Cable Jointing and Lineman Trade Courses

Centre for Power System Skills

Centre for Distribution System Skills

Centre for Cable Laying and Cable Jointing Skills

Centre for Transmission and Distribution Line Skills

Centre for Solar Power Skills

Centre for Allied Electrical Skills

Located at Varap village along the Kalyan-Murbad road, a little over two kilometers from the Shahad Railway Station on the Mumbai-Kasara-Nasik rail route is TPSDI’s Centre for Excellence for Power System Skills. TPSDI - Shahad is a training centre spread across a sprawling 10-acre campus that provides the extensive space and the infrastructure needed to conduct courses across the whole range of power system skills.

workshop including unique conduit wiring practice facility

Safety, Health and Environment – facilities to train people on working at heights, Electrical safety – LOTO, PTW

Fully-equipped classrooms with HD projectors Fully-equipped computer lab

The following facilities at the center make for a complete training campus: Canteen Dormitories and hostels for trainees Guesthouse for faculty Medical emergency services and a

visiting doctor Highly secured campus environment

Power System live Receiving Station Well-equipped 22 KV electrical

switchyard 110 KV Transmission Line Towers-

Erection & Maintenance Distribution Line and Pole-mounted

Substation Erection & Maintenance Distribution System – Feeders, panels,

metering system, metering testing facility

Electrical Lab equipped with various working models of AC, DC Motors, Drives

Cable-Laying Facility-Handling cable drums, practicing laying real cables

Cable Jointing including LV, HV, & EHV, Cable Termination

Wiring-Domestic and Industrial Lab and

TPSDI - Shahad : Training Offerings

What the Course Covers Course follows the curriculum and pattern

as per Directorate General of Employment & Training (DGET) guidelines and norms

Training at Shahad goes beyond the minimum prescribed – Students are also exposed to other skills that prepare

them for multi-skilling and multi-tasking

National Council for Training in the Vocational Trades (NCTVT) - Cable & Lineman Trade

Course Outcome: NCTVT Graduates from the Shahad Center are much sought after by the Industry due to their added capabilities and exposure to realwork situations

Training Infrastructure at TPSDI - Shahad

Power System Skills

What the Course Covers Principles and practices related to

Installation, operation and maintenance of Transmission System and Equipment

Hot Spot identification using Infra-Red detector

Lightning protection, earthing, tree trimming, and other special line maintenance practices

Cable Laying Skills

Course Outcome: Successful trainees should be able to assist in cable laying for power distribution, power transmission, and other related areas

What the Course Covers Hands-on learning in cable routing,

drum mounting, cable rolling & laying, and protection

Overview of cables, types and sizes and norms for laying underground cables

Cable-related safety practices like shoring and sloping, work area protection

Safeguards to be taken related to other underground utility service items

Identification and use of tools and tackles, including inspection, upkeep and maintenance

different types of joints and terminations Hands-on learning of cable preparation,

cable jointing, termination of LV and HV cables

Understanding EHV cable jointing and termination techniques

Testing and Troubleshooting related to Cable Jointing and Termination

Differences between Indoor and Outdoor cable termination practices

Safety practices including Lock Out and Tag Out and Permit to Work procedures for cable jointing and termination

Fire Safety Procedures applicable to cable storing, jointing & termination

Identification and use of tools and tackles, including inspection, upkeep and maintenance

Cable Jointing and Termination Skills

What the Course Covers Introduction to basics of electricity, AC,

DC circuits Introduction to cables, cable types, cable

sizes Understanding cable jointing practice and

Course Outcome: Successful trainees should be able to prepare, joint, and terminate LV, HV, and EHVcables

Laying, jointing and termination of LV cables for power supply

Hands-on learning on transformers, circuit breakers, RMU, bus bar, feeders, current transformer, potential transformer and lightening arrestor, gang operating device, earthing system

Erection and maintenance of feeder pillars and sub feeders

Preventive and breakdown maintenance

Identification and use of tools and tackles, including inspection, upkeep and maintenance

Safety practices including Lock Out and Tag Out and Permit to Work procedures for electrical substation

Fire Safety procedures applicable to an electrical substation

AC, DC system, batteries and battery Chargers

Relays, meters and control panel wiring

Using GIS for distribution and connection management

Distribution System Skills

What the Course Covers Distribution System Skills Erection and maintenance of

distribution substation Maintenance of pole-mounted

substation

and Tag Out and Permit to Work procedures for electrical substation

Fire Safety procedures applicable to an electrical substation

AC, DC system, Batteries and Battery Chargers

Relays, meters and control panel wiring

Installation and maintenance of compressor, motor and DG set

Equipment testing, condition monitoring, commissioning procedures and calibration

Remote operation of power system using SCADA

Legal regulations and statutory compliance

Operation and maintenance practices related to grid - substation, GIS and AIS

Hands-on learning on transformers, circuit breakers, bus bar, feeders, current transformer, potential transformer, wave trap and lightning arrestor, gang operating device, earthing system

Energy Meters - single and three phase. Capacitors and reactors installation

and maintenance Preventive and breakdown

Maintenance Practices Identification and use of tools and

tackles, including inspection, upkeep and maintenance

Safety practices including Lock Out

Course Outcome: Successful trainees should be able to work as a power system electrician in an electrical substation

cross arm, insulators, line hardware, and bracing

Different types of conductors, their uses, stringing, tensioning and importance of correct sagging, conductor mid-span jointing

Different types of insulators, erection and maintenance

Lightning arrestor, grounding, guard wiring, and guy wiring/pole

Problems and conditions rendering towers, poles and accessories in need of maintenance or replacement

Hands-on learning on usage of derrick for pole erection

Erection of pole-mounted substation, Tower and pole climbing and

protection practice Tree pruning and periodic

maintenance procedures Identification and use of tools and

tackles, including inspection, upkeep and maintenance

Transmission line patrolling, identification of faults, and rectification

Hot spot identification using infra-red detector

Troubleshooting and rectification Legal regulations and statutory

compliance

Transmission and Distribution Line Skills

What the Course Covers Understanding Transmission &

Distribution System planning including estimation of material required

Erection and maintenance of transmission towers, distribution poles, and transmission & distribution lines

Accessories for tower and poles like

Distribution energy meters, types and uses

Installation and maintenance of single phase and three phase energy meters

Meter reading, AMR, meter defects and fault / tampering detection

Troubleshooting and rectification

Load calculation and load balancing and management

Energy meter testing and commissioning

Equipment testing, commissioning, condition monitoring and calibration

Legal regulations and statutory compliance

Course Outcome: Successful trainees should be able to work as a Transmission and Distribution linemen

Course Outcome: Successful trainees should be able to work as a Distribution system electrician in an electrical substation

Installation, repair and maintenance of geysers, fans, iron and other modern appliances

Installation and connection of electrical protections like fuse, RCCB, MCB, earthing system etc.

Installation, repair and maintenance of distribution transformer, switch gear, feeder pillar and distribution boards, AC, DC drives, motors, pumps, contactors and starters

Installation and maintenance of battery, battery chargers, invertors and UPS

Installation and wiring of single-phase and three-phase energy meters

Testing and trouble shooting Safety practices including lock out and

tag out and permit to work procedures for cable jointing and termination

Fire safety procedures applicable to cable storing, jointing & termination

Identification and use of right tools and tackles including inspection, upkeep and maintenance

What the Course Covers Basics of electricity, AC and DC Circuits Types of conductors, sizes and usage Wiring principles and methods,

drawing and using electric circuits for various kinds of house and industrial uses like power, lighting, appliances etc.

Laying of single phase and three phase electric circuits

Hands-on learning of various types of conducts, casing and capping, concealed wiring etc.

Hands-on learning on mounting and dismounting of various electrical accessories and fixtures and connection - switches lights etc.

Laying circuits for telecommunication, cable TV, CCTV, fire alarm system etc.

What the Course Covers Solar PV cells and its uses Installation and maintenance of solar

panels for off-grid and grid connection Installation and maintenance of solar

thermal panels for domestic and industrial heating

Installation and maintenance of domestic solar lighting system

Solar Power Skills - Photovoltaic and Thermal

Allied Skills - Wireman

Course Outcome: Successful trainees should be able to work as a Solar technician for either photovoltaic or thermal

Course Outcome: Successful trainees should be able to work as a domestic wireman

Contact TPSDIMaj. Shashi TiwariTata Power Skill Development InstituteThe Tata Power Company Limited, Parel Receiving Station, Parel Tank Road, Mumbai 400 033, Maharashtra, IndiaTel: 67172176 extn: 2176 Mobile: 0982717704Email: Shashi.tiwari@tatapower.com

Mr. Hari RohraTata Power Skill Development Institute - ShahadC/O Tata Power Ambernath Receiving Station, Varap Village, Kalyan-Murbad Road, Next to Sacred Heart School,Shahad 421301, Maharashtra, IndiaTel: 67174717 extn: 4717 Mobile: 09223582855Email: hsrohra@tatapower.com

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TPSDI Shahad Layout

1. Admin Office2. Classroom 1&23. Cable Workshop4. Switchyard5. Distribution Lab6. Lab Block

7. Canteen8. Solar Thermal 12. Hostel Block13. Auditorium14. Workshop15. Electrical Exibits

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