Responsibility of the home should be equally shared by both the partners:Subroto Bagchi

Bhubaneswar: 8/3/21:Odisha Power Transmission Corporation Ltd (OPTCL) celebrated International Women’s Day today at Krushi Bhawan.

The programme was graced by Subroto Bagchi, Chairman, Odisha Skill Development Authority, and Saurabh Garg, Chairman, OPTCL & GRIDCO.

An impromptu talk with Bagchi was organized to motivate the female employees of OPTCL.

In reply to various questions asked during the impromptu talk, Bagchi advised the female employees not to get guilt trapped.

Bagchi said that any responsibility of the home should be equally shared by both the partners and they should perform well in their professional life also.

“OPTCL is one of the rare PSUs which is having good strength of female employees working both at filed and office. It is indeed a matter of pride that female engineers are showing interest to work in Power Sector. It proves, there is no specific set of job roles for women. They can equally compete with their male counterparts. It should be praised that in OPTCL female engineers are doing shift duty irrespective of time.” said Garg in his address to the gathering.

On this occasion, 10 best female employees were felicitated who have immensely contributed to the organization.

Present on the occasion were Sanjeev Singh, MD, OPTCL; Trilochan Panda, MD, GRIDCO; Raghunath Pratihari, Director (HRD); Samir Swain, Director (Finance); Rajiv Lochan Panda, Director (Project); Uma Kanta Sahu, Director Commercial, GRIDCO; and many female employees of OPTCL & GRIDCO.