New Delhi: India's largest power generation company, NTPC Limited, a Maharatna PSU under the Ministry of Power, has been awarded the ATD Global Best award 2019 (by the Association for Talent Development), in USA for the third time in succession. 59 organisations have won the ATD Global Best award while NTPC Limited was ranked 18th among them.
NTPC Limited's Director (HR) Saptarshi Roy flew to the Washington DC, USA to received the award on behalf of the organisation on October 3. The ATD Best Award recognises leveraging of talent development function as a strategic business partner to achieve enterprise-wide success, the championing of learning opportunities and learning the culture.
The Association for Talent Development (ATD) is a professional membership organisation supporting those who develop the knowledge and skills of employees in organisations around the world. The association was previously known as ASTD.
This year ATD honoured 59 organisations from Australia, Canada, China, India, Korea, Russia, Singapore, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States as winners of the 2019 best awards. Rosendin, headquartered in San Jose, California, won the first-place ranking. IBM, Tata Consultancy Services, TELUS, and Wipro Limited received ATD's Best of the 'Best Award,' which goes to organisations that have won the Best Award ten or more times. Companies were recognised during a ceremony held at MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on October 3.