Feeling me proud to be invited and be present at the event. I am overwhelmed with the event the way it has been designed and presented and that too with captive talents. Actually it is a birth of new blood group called "EE+" (Event Excellence) after "BE+". I believe now we can capitalize this in presenting stage show for "safety and CR" initiatives at site in spite engaging team from outside.

To me it is an excellent show ever I saw since my joining, 2007. I am sorry for not being participated in "High Voltage" due to sudden demise of my mom but surely do that for next event.

Convey my regards to all affiliated to the event staged and sincere regards to Vivek sir. It is a true depiction that we are culturally cultured now and geared up to carry the legacy for next 100 years.

The energy and buzz in the hallwas evident. The attendance was great and for the first time I saw so manyvehicles parked outside the Hall. Kids and even adults were actually squabblingfor extra time which shows the motivation to participate in such activities.

Witness to the event, siteleadership has indicated to continue holding such events in future andhopefully longevity of such activities would be beyond Centenary Celebrations.

Lastly, Judges had a tough timedecided the winners and there were passionate discussions among judges whichexemplifies both the quality of paintings and seriousness of all involved.

Thank you very much for the excellent ceremony and all the kind hospitality.

We all enjoyed very much and proud to be a part of your Centenary celebration.

I sincerely thank TATA POWER management and Senior Club management for taking us to KHOPOLI to commemorate the centenary year of Tata Power. The old power house visit gave us the informations on the technology used those days. The photo gallery depicting  the history of the power house gave us the inside picture of the decades of the power house existence and the leaders of the time who managed the governance of the company.
The rose garden was very colourful and was very pleasant to walk through the garden.The bamboo cottage built down stream of the dam is very imaginative. the use of solar energy used for  powering the cottage a renewable power  is highly appreciable and very educative for younger generation.
The briefings given by Mr. Vishwas Rao on various subjects and projects were very educative and commendable. A visit to fisheries and the understanding of the breeding of the extinct (Mahaseer)  fish was enjoyable.
The visit was well organized and every care was taken to keep us comfortable.
I thank the organizers for taking pains in taking all of us  on this heritage tour and the wonderful hospitality extended to us.

Dear Sir

On 19th April 2015 "Heritage visit to Khopoli power house" was organised by senior trombay club committee.
We visited to khopoli power house. The   functional of hydro plant & the photo exhibition are very informative. And then we visited to walwhan garden. The information   about the medicinal plant and echo friendly house are explained by Mr. Vishvas Rao are amazing.
As specially we are thankful to  Mr. P.L.Manjeraker Sir for providing the bus service.
All the arrangement organised by Mr. S.C.Bartakke & Mr. Milind J. Talaker & committee member are excellent.

I must state that your 100 year function of Tata Power was amazing & very well managed. We all loved every moment of our few hours of stay at Khopoli.
What is worth mentioning is... you all remembered invitation to Halbe family, even though my father retired almost 42 years back. My brother who is also now nearing 79 left long back.
The entire show was picture perfect and we all could watch on big screen entire function including Mr Mistry's arrival by helicopter along with MD of company Mr Anil Sardana. Some of the small 3-5 minutes speeches including one in Marathi by Mrs Railkar brought back all memories of my stay in Bhira when I was young. She spoke from her heart.
Our round to heritage building and knowledge fair was very well organized. Everything moved on time we all appreciate the planning of all details including lunch.
My sister in law, self and my wife had an opportunity to meet the old stalwarts Mr Kohli, Mr Manaktala and Mr Engineer... who were colleagues of my father during his days.
Tata Power's 100 years slogan in 'Invisible Goodness' reflect truly the spirit of the organization.
With time paucity, we took a very quick round in heritage building but were pleased to know that this will remain open for one year.
My brother Arvind Halbe was abroad and could not make it to this function but he would love to be part of any other similar function you may hold at other locations. Bhira would always be the best bet for him to get back his memories. We all would also be happy to visit Khopoli again and peacefully see the heritage building and hopefully Tata Power management will allow us to do so.
Thank you for calling us for this function. We feel honoured

I have very happy memories of Tata Power; it was hard work, but extremely satisfying. When I took over as the MD of Tata Power, the Company was largely Mumbai-based, with generation and distribution interests in the city, and only one unit in Jojobera. It was in such a scenario that we took the decision of expanding and getting into generation away from the Mumbai region regulatory area. Tata Power also proved itself successful in managing public-private partnerships in generation, distribution and transmission. We became an integrated energy player. In Mumbai, our attempts to expand our distribution area faced some challenges, but we met them successfully and got closer to our customer. We have begun to understand what it means for a power company to be connected with the customer. Tata Power has gone through a huge transformation from the early part of the first decade to where it is now. Our people have been able to make that transformation happen, thereby ensuring the stability of the organisation. The fact that Tata Power has always been quick to adapt new technologies and that we have had good engineering talent, haves helped us to grow.

Looking ahead, I believe that there will be far more distributed power in the future than what we see today. The consumer too will have a choice about which provider to buy from. We will see a lot more private-public partnerships in distribution and transmission and more renewable power. And I hope India will be in a situation where we will genuinely have a surplus of power capacity.

I am fortunate to have enjoyed such a close association with this amazing company over the past 30 years, first, as a part of the leadership team, then as MD and finally as a non executive director. Tata Power has grown in both scale and spread and this is due to its ability to adapt and change. The most striking aspect of Tata Power has been its ability to reinvent itself over the course of a century. Companies that endure over a long period of time need to have the tenacity and the adaptability to both withstand and accept change. The stability of the organisation is also rooted in the nature of the electricity business. It is an essential service. One can do without a new car but not without power supply. The company had a string of firsts to its credit in generation, transmission and distribution of power. Later, Tata Electric executed contracts for projects abroad in more than 10 countries, including UAE (Dubai), Algeria, Malaysia and Uzbekistan (Tashkent). In fact, Tata Electric also fostered the creation and growth of Tata Consulting Engineers and Tata Projects. The transformation of Tata Power over the decades has been a very challenging and rewarding experience for me. As it completes its first century and faces the future, its vast experience and the excellent reputation earned by adherence to Tata Values augers well for it.

The growth story of Tata Power, India??s largest power company, has kept pace with changing times at times, anticipating it, writes former managing director F. A. Vandrevala. During my short stint at Tata Power from 2001 to 2005, the Company saw many changes internally and externally. Internally, the main thrust was to convert excellent farmers to aggressive hunters. We had a ring fenced licence for Mumbai with little or no competition. Fuel costs were passed on and oil accounted for about 30 % of our energy cost. Capital costs were a boon as higher capital costs gave us better returns. The focus was on reliability and continuity.

The challenge lay in convincing others that this placid state of affairs would not continue for long. There was passive agreement, but not active commitment. We had to make the elephant dance by burning platforms internally. Subsequent external changes helped.

To improve coordination and motivation, the Carnac sub-station was revamped to accommodate employees from the Sterling and Dharavi offices. A well equipped clinic was opened at Carnac. So many changes happened in those days in Tata Power. Employee engagement and employee satisfaction increased significantly for employees in both the officer and union categories. The company ethos changed from operational excellence at high cost to business excellence at optimal cost. However, my personal view is that since power is a regulated business, global expansion will have its constraints and special restrictions. I wish Tata Power all success.

I was with Tata Electric (as Tata Power was known then) for 18 years from 1951 to 1969, before I shifted to Tata Consultancy Services. We were the company that never shut down power to Mumbai, and operated at the lowest losses. Computers came to India in 1952 and I was very interested in this technology. In 1964, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) installed a large CDC machine. At the time, I was working in Tata Power and we wanted to put some of our operations on the computer - inventory control, purchases and some HR data. We had to punch cards and take them to TIFR. So in a sense, we started computerising Tata Electric in 1964.

In 1968, we asked the Government to let us computerise the running of the Tata Electric systems. A few months later, they allowed us to install online computers which worked in real time mode. This was the first load dispatch centre in India. The system took instantaneous feedback. There was real-time communication with Khopoli and Trombay. At the time, we were ahead of many countries, including UK and Japan. We were just the third or fourth country in the world to have this technology. It was one of Tata Electrics pioneering moves.