Er. Jiwan Kumar Gupta
Chief Engineer (Generation)
Er J.K.Gupta is an Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering Graduate from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala. He has an excellent 28 years of service in PSPCL to his credit, out of which 27 years of his service is in Generation
wing of PSPCL/BBMB. He remained brilliant and meritorious throughout his career.
He Joined PSEB (now PSPCL) on 28.10.1983 as Trainee Engineer (Electrical) & Worked at 6*210MW Guru Gobind Singh Super Thermal Plant as Assistant Engineer for about 9 years looking after Control & Instrumentation of Stage-I units including Furnace Safeguard
Supervisory System (FSSS) and Annunciation system of GGSSTP stage-I units and Open & close loop Control System (Contronic-3) of Stage-II Units.
As Assistant Executive Engineer, served in testing and commissioning of power line carrier communication system of PSEB (now PSPCL) at Jalandhar for one year & later on Worked for about 6 years at 2*210MW + 2*250MW Guru Hargobind Thermal Plant, Lehra Mohabbat
for maintenance of complete electrical system of coal handling plant including control and instrumentation system of coal handling plant..
On Promotion as Sr. Executive Engineer on 12.06.2004,he worked as Power Controller, SLDC, Patiala for four months for controlling the line loading and load dispatches of the Punjab state during paddy season.
While Working as Additional Superintending engineer in Control & Instrumentation cell at GHTP for more than six years, he looked after the maintenance of complete instrumentation and TDC-3000 DCS system installed by M/s Honeywell, USA at GHTP 2*210MW stage-I
units, Max DNA DCS System for 2*250MW Stage-II Units installed by BHEL and further was assigned the challenging job of maintenance of complete electrical system of coal handling plant including control and instrumentation systems. Besides undergoing trainings
in various fields of Control & Instrumentation he got trained on O&M of power plants at Essen, Germany from 04.02.2007 to 25.02.2007.
After promotion as Superintending Engineer on 02.11.2010 ,he worked as Superintending Engineer / Technical to Director/Generation, PSPCL for about four months and later on Served as Superintending Engineer and Dy. Chief Engineer, Operation at Guru Hargobind
Thermal Plant Lehra Mohabbat for a period of 5.5 years till his promotion as CE.
On elevation as Chief Engineer on 12.09.2016, he was posted as Chief Engineer/Thermal Designs, PSPCL, Patiala & looked after the arbitration cases and regulatory matters in respect of private thermal plants & cases were also defended in PSERC, Arbitration,
High Court and Supreme Court by PSPCL. Stopping of generation from GNDTP units and first two units of GGSSTP, work order for feasibility study to install 3*800MW supercritical thermal plants at Ropar was got initiated.
Presently, he is working as Engineer-in-Chief in Bhakra Beas Management Board after joining BBMB on 18.10.2017 as Chief Engineer. He is heading the Generation wing of Power Wing, looking after Operation and Maintenance aspects of 28Nos hydro power machines
of various capacities (With total Installed capacity of 2918.73MW) located at five Hydro Power Houses of BBMB. He has also been assigned the additional charge (shared) of Member/Power, after retirement of Member/Power, BBMB in May, 2018
Achievements
During his tenure at GHTP in PSPCL, he made the units of GHTP run in efficient manner that the all performance parameters such as generation, plant load factor, Heat Rate, Thermal Efficiency have attained the best level & the generation crossed the targets.
GHTP, Lehra Mohabbat was awarded with the First National Energy Conservation Award 2010 (First prize at National level) by Hon’ble Power Minister of India on 14th December 2010. Similarly during his tenure, Guru Hargobind Thermal Plant, Lehra Mohabbat has
won the meritorious productivity awards for 2011-12 and 2012-13 for its excellent performance & Certificate of Merit for FY 2013-14 in the category of ' Performance of Thermal Power Stations' by the Ministry of Power.
After joining as Chief Engineer / BBMB in Oct, 2017, the work of commissioning of Ganguwal Power House Unit No.2 and Kotla Power House Unit No.3 (24.2 MW each) , both run of the river plants, was got expedited and Units were commissioned on 23-11-2017 and
04-12-2017 respectively and he was awarded with Appreciation Letter from worthy Member (Power), BBMB, Chandigarh for his excellent & efficient services. Similarly the revival of 165 MW Unit No.5 of Dehar Power House was expedited and the Unit was brought back
on bar before peak season of 2018. He has been instrumental in reducing the planned & forced outage of BBMB’s hydro generators resulting in achieving Plant availability of 99.99% and surpassing of generation targets prescribed by CEA by 16% during the year
2017-18. Further, 100% CEA generation targets have been achieved upto last week of Nov, 2018. He has been instrumental in completing various Half yearly, Annual and Capital maintenances of generating machines in scheduled time frames with enhanced cost effectiveness.