National Power Training Institute, Southern Region is one of the 9(Nine) Institutes under National Power Training Institute, a Registered Society working with the award in-help from Ministry of Power, Government of India. 

National Power Training Institute, Southern Region, Neyveli is the absolute first Power Training Institute in the nation. It was begun in 1965 as Steam Power Station Personnel Training Institute later renamed as Thermal Power Station Personnel Training Institute under the recent Central Water Power Commission. 

The goal of setting-up of this Training Institute was to give a unified office to preparing the designers of Thermal Power Stations which were coming up in the nation during that time. Neyveli was picked for setting up this Institute as six Thermal units of 300 MW were charged and units for another 300MW were under development around then at Neyveli as a turn-key undertaking by Russians. 

Since consultancy for Neyveli Thermal Power Station was given by Central Water Power Commission the Commission set up this preparation Institute at Neyveli for using the ability of M/s Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited Engineers in O&M of Thermal Power Stations to prepare the Engineers of other Electricity Boards which were likewise setting up huge Thermal Generating units that time. 

The Institute has experienced numerous progressions since 1965 and had ceaseless development. With the bifurcation of Central Water Power Commission into Central Electricity Authority and Central Water Commission in seventies, the Institute went under Central Electricity Authority. In late 1970s the Raj Dekshya Committee set up by Government of India to improve Power Sector of the nation, prescribed among numerous things formal preparing for the work force utilized in the Power Industry. As needs be the Indian Electricity Rul... Read More