HPCL sweeps 8th PSU Awards by Governance Now

by Suman Gupta

HPCL received three prestigious awards by Governance Now during a clinquant virtual function at 8^th PSU Awards. Dr. Kiran Bedi (IPS), Former Lt. Governor of Puducherry presented HPCL’s ‘Investment in Startups Award’ to Sh. Rajnish Mehta, Executive Director – Corporate Strategy & Planning and Business Development, conferred Digital Transformation Leader (CIO) Award to Sh. Rajiv Chandra, Executive Director Information Systems and felicitated Sh. Rajeev Goel, Chief General Manager – Public Relations and Corporate Communication (PRCC), who was conferred with Communication Leader Award.

These prestigious awards by Governance Now recognize and felicitate outstanding efforts of the PSUs who have been a key to the Country’s meteoric growth since Independence.  This year’s awards focused on the work carried out by the various PSUs during the Pandemic who contributed significantly towards India’s fight against Covid-19.

HPCL’s Startup Initiative program, Udgam enables Innovators & Entrepreneurs pursue a promising idea, establish and validate proof of concept (POC) and support commercialization. HPCL is currently working with many Startups and have helped innovators and entrepreneurs commercially implement their workable ideas, thus fueling innovation in the Nation, especially during the Pandemic.

With work from home and carrying out Operations, remotely becoming the new normal during the Pandemic, HPCL’s IS team provided quintessential support to the Corporation to quickly adapt to the changing scenario. This enabled the Corporation to serve the Nation uninterrupted even during Lockdown.

HPCL’s PRCC Department, has shown exemplary efforts during the Pandemic by carrying out effective internal and external communication to not only spread the message of Covid Appropriate Behaviour to the general public, but also kept the Corporation informed, engaged and invigorated towards Country’s fight against the Pandemic. PRCC spearheaded HPCL’s ‘Unite2FightCorona’ campaign, which saw taking the message of Covid Appropriate Behavior to over 7 crore citizens thru various ATL & TTL Mediums, reemphasizing HPCL as a Socially responsible Corporate.