NOIDA: Marking nearly three decades of institutional excellence in capacity building, the GAIL Training Institute (GTI), Noida, celebrated its 29th anniversary by hosting the 2nd Learning & Development (L&D) Conclave. Organized under the theme “Fueling the Future: Skills for a Volatile Transitional Energy Landscape,” the premier summit served as a strategic confluence for energy-sector HR leaders and policymakers to align workforce capabilities with India’s aggressive net-zero goals.
The event focused on restructuring traditional public sector workforce skills to handle the dual challenges of rapid digitalization and the global shift toward green energy.
Strategic Institutional Mandate
The high-profile conclave was inaugurated by Shri Deepak Gupta, Chairman & Managing Director of GAIL (India) Limited. In his inaugural address, Gupta emphasized that structured Learning & Development programs are no longer peripheral administrative exercises, but core strategic tools required to align individual employee competencies with national energy priorities.
Complementing this vision, Shri Ayush Gupta, Director (HR) at GAIL, mapped out the systemic interventions pioneered by GTI to cultivate agile leadership pipelines capable of navigating technical and volatile clean-energy transitions.
Elite Inter-PSU HR Representation
Reflecting the collaborative approach of India’s Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) toward human capital management, the conclave featured a powerful assembly of top personnel and human resource chiefs:
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Shri K. S. Shetty, Director (HR), HPCL
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Smt. Rashmi Govil, Director (HR), IOCL
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Shri Manish Patil, Director (HR), ONGC
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Dr. Yatindra Dwivedi, Director (Personnel), Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd.
The flagship session included a highly technical panel discussion moderated by veteran HR specialist Dr. G. P. Rao. The panel focused on “Empowering Teams by Embracing the Future,” detailing actionable strategies for guiding large-scale public sector workforces through structural energy conversions, artificial intelligence integration, and modern organizational redesigns.
The Sustainability Directive: Delivering the keynote address, Vaishali Nigam Sinha, Co-Founder of ReNew, stressed that India’s transition to sustainable energy requires a massive, coordinated scaling up of specialized technical skill sets to support renewable infrastructure deployments.
Cross-Sector Knowledge Synergies
A major highlight of the day was an innovative fireside chat titled “Sustainable Skilling: Commitment and Leadership of the Indian Army.” The conversation between Maj. Gen. A. S. Chauhan (Retd.) and Col. Rohit Dev offered corporate leaders critical insights into the military’s high-stakes models for workforce adaptation, agile training cycles, and crisis leadership.
L&D delegations from premier industrial giants—including BPCL, EIL, NTPC, BHEL, NHPC, and MGL—shared operational best practices, highlighting how immersive digital simulators and micro-learning modules are replacing legacy training programs.
Marking the anniversary milestone, GAIL officially rolled out “Inquizzitive 2.0,” a modernized corporate HRD initiative engineered to drive gamified, continuous learning and micro-engagement across its pan-India workforce. Concluding the apex summit, Shri Praveer Kumar Agrawal, Executive Director (Training) at GAIL, reaffirmed GTI’s commitment to serving as the central hub for nurturing future-ready, cross-functional talent across the subcontinent’s evolving energy ecosystem.
