OREANDA-NEWS. February 9, 2012. In line with its business philosophy of powering a greener world, Tata Power’s Naraj Marthapur project has been driving initiatives focused on combating climate change in partnership with local schools, colleges, community, government, youth clubs and PRI members in Orissa.

In order to drive energy conservation awareness, the project team of Naraj Marthapur organised special quiz and debate competitions at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya at Munduli in Cuttack district. Around 420 students from local schools in and around the project area participated in an enthralling and lively debate competition. The debate focused on ways to conserve energy, and the topic of the debate was ’Role of students in energy conservation’.

An interesting quiz programme followed the debate competition. More than 500 students attended the programme which was also witnessed by the teachers, local people, and some government officials. The students participated with a lot of zeal and displayed great knowledge on the subject, making the competition a very interesting and exciting affair.

Speaking on the occasion chief guest Jyoti Prakash Das, OAS (SB) sub collector and sub divisional magistrate, Cuttack, said, “It is an excellent initiative to create awareness among the public, students and teachers on energy conservation which is the need of the hour. The effort put in by the Tata Power team is well appreciated.”

“We believe that spreading awareness about issues like these in the community will help and benefit our society as a whole. We are proud to organise such initiatives and will continue to do so in the future as well,” added P Thakur, general manager, Orissa projects.

Tata Power also runs a national flagship programme on energy conservation called Tata Power Club Enerji for schoolchildren, which has covered 400 schools and sensitised more than 2.8 million citizens across the nation; over 3 million units of electricity have been saved till date. The club is proud to have more than 19,095 Energy Champions and 32,257 Energy Ambassadors who are spreading the mantra of energy conservation among people across various age and income groups. Today, there are more than 800 mini clubs across the country, which are run by the schoolchildren with the aim to stop wastage of electricity.