HRD

Training activities were streamlined in KSEBL with the starting of

1. Line Man Training Center at Kottayam and Thrissur in 1979.
2. Line Man Training Center at Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode in 1987.
3. Power Engineers Training and Research Center (PETARC) at Moolamattom, Idukki in 1989.
4. HRD Cell at Vydyuthi Bhavanam, Thiruvananthapuram in 1992.
5. All Lineman Training Centers were upgraded as Junior Executive Staff Training Centers (JESTC) in 1994.
6. JESTC upgraded as Regional Power Training Institute (RPTI) in 2006.
7. Southern Region Computer Training Center (SRCTC) at Vydyuthi Bhavanam, Thiruvananthapuram in 2007.

PETARC, Moolamattom:

PETARC, Moolamattom-ISO 9001:2015 Certified (CEA Accredited Category 1 Training Institute)

PETARC is a full-fledged training center of KSEBL formed in the year 1989 for imparting technical, financial, and management training to the Engineers and other officers of KSE Board Ltd through Induction Cum Statutory, Capacity Building, and Refresher programs. Presently this center has got national recognition from the Central Electricity Authority as a Category 1 training institute for conducting training for Engineers in Hydro Generation, Transmission, Distribution, and Power Management wings. PETARC is located at the Hydro Electric Power campus at Moolamattom, Idukki, which is having two Air Conditioned lecture halls and one Conference hall with the latest training aids, a Computer Training lab facility, Library, and Faculty rooms. It has a full-fledged hostel with 20 single rooms 17 double rooms, 1 Warden Room, Separate room facilities for Faculties(4 Nos), and a Circuit House Annex containing 6 rooms with 3 beds each.

Ministry of Power, New Delhi vide letter No.12/21/2015 T&R (C No.225428) dated 14.06.2023 from the Under Secretary (DVC/T&R), Ministry of Power(T & R) Section, New Delhi granted renewal of recognition to PETARC as Category 1 Training Institute in the field of Hydro, Transmission, Distribution and Power Management for four more years with effect from 1st December 2022 to 30th November 2026, based on the recommendation of the CEA team who visited PETARC on 23rd May 2023.

PETARC has a Model Room situated near the KSRTC Bus Stand at Moolamattom displaying the first Hydro Machine installed in the old Pallivasal Power House in the 1940s comprising of a 5 MW Horizontal type Pelton Wheel and its Generator parts. A Photo Gallery is also displayed in the Model room showing the various construction stages of the Idukki Arch Dam, Cheruthoni and Kulamavu dams, and the Underground Power House at Moolamattom.

PETARC also has a Model Park near to Circuit House at Moolamattom displaying collections of Electrical and Turbine parts from various Generating Stations

PETARC received an internationally recognized ISO 9001:2015 Certificate on Quality Management Systems on 27th December 2022 based on the compliance of quality in the system of works adopted in the institute and its hostel. Based on the new Quality Policy, PETARC Moolamattom is committed to “impart quality training to participants to enhance their skill and efficiency to accomplish their organizational goal and to the satisfaction of their superiors and employers. This will be achieved by continually improving our infrastructure, course contents, methods, procedures, and training the faculties”.

On 15th February 2023, the Chief Engineer (HRM) inaugurated the new building having Air Conditioned Seminar Hall and Model Room at PETARC with a seating capacity for accommodating 99 numbers of trainees with a big LED wall for watching visual presentations very clearly even from the back seat by the participants.

PETARC has been training about 4000 officers per year for the last 33 years. PETARC has been conducting Induction Cum Statutory Training programs for newly recruited Assistant Engineers(Electrical) and Long term Statutory Training Programs for in-service Assistant Engineers/Assistant Executive Engineers as per the Central Electricity Authority (Measures relating to Safety and Electric Supply) Regulations 2010.

For the Implementation of a “Learning Management System (LMS)” in KSEB Ltd, an online training program, PETARC plays a major role in arranging faculties for preparing visual aids, lesson plans, questionnaires, and monitoring LMS activities in RPTIs

Other than Engineers in KSEBL PETARC is also conducting training for Graduate Engineers, Faculties in Engineering Colleges, and Electrical Engineers from other organizations on a payment basis.

Phone No: 0486-2252378/ 9496009300.

E-mail ID: petarckseb@gmail.com.