NTPC Transfer Policy: A Case of

National Thermal Power Corporation, later renamed as NTPC Ltd, a power

generating company was founded in 1975 under the Ministry of Power, Government
of India. The company started off by installing thermal power projects in various parts
of the country using coal as the fuel. Later on, the company has substantially changed
its fuel mix by venturing into Gas based projects, Hydro, solar, wind and other
renewable sources of energy.

Internally, the organization has clustered its projects geographically into 7

regions: National Capital region, Northern region, Southern region, Western region I &
II, Eastern region I & II. The company workforce of around 20,000( as on 2021)
employees are deployed in various projects spread across these regions and in
corporate centre and other Regional headquarters. Till 2021, company’s transfer
policy was to transfer executives inter-regionally on completion of 10 years’ service in
a particular project. The Job rotation of executives, i.e., change in functional area of
working were usually done during this transfer. Recently, In July 2021 (Corporate HR
circular no.914/2021 dated 02.07.2021), the transfer policy was revised and period of
tenure was shortened to 5 years (up to the rank of AGM).

The study mainly focuses on the following :-

1. Transfer policy and its effect on employees and organization

2. Extend of success of transfer policy.
3. Job Rotation Policy and its effects.
4. Implementation part of Job Rotation policy.
5. Perception of employees on the policy.