NHPC
Shri Yamuna Kumar Chaubey (58 years) is a graduate in Civil Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur, and joined NHPC Limited in 1985 as a Probationary Executive (Civil) at 540 MW Chamera Hydro-Electric Project now Chamera-I Power Station, Himachal Pradesh, and continued since then to rise to present level.
Before joining the Board of NHPC Limited as Director (Technical) w.e.f. April 1, 2020, Shri Chaubey was Executive Director in NHPC Limited in charge of the Civil Contracts Division and E&M Contract Division at the Corporate Office. He is also on the Board of Bundelkhand Saur Urja Limited as Nominee Director w.e.f. June 25, 2019.
Working for more than 34 years in various departments i.e. Contracts, Design & Engineering, and Construction Projects of NHPC in various capacities, he possesses experience in all aspects of the development of a hydro-project from concept to commissioning and has contributed to the development of NHPC Limited.
Before joining NHPC Board, he held the position of Executive Director (Contracts). He was responsible for the finalization and award of major contracts i.e. civil, hydro‑mechanical, electro-mechanical, solar, etc. including settlement of contractual issues relating to pre & post-award stages of work.
His career spans more than 25 years in Design & Engineering Division, working, in various capacities, in planning & layout engineering for PFR/FR/DPR and construction stage design of hydroelectric/river valley projects. He has to his credit planning and designing of major hydro-projects, namely 540 MW Chamera-I Project, Himachal Pradesh, 60 MW Kurichhu Project, Bhutan, 231 MW Chamera-III Project, Himachal Pradesh, 2000 MW Subansiri Lower Project, Arunachal Pradesh, 2880 MW Dibang Multi-Purpose Project, Arunachal Pradesh.
He has also worked in the construction of two prestigious projects of NHPC i.e. 540 MW Chamera-I Project, Himachal Pradesh - executed in collaboration with SNC/ACRES of Canada and 480 MW Uri HE Project, J&K - executed on a turn-key basis by Uri Civil - a Swedish Consortium.
He also contributed as an expert member of the Working Group, led by Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission for the 3rd China-India Strategic Economic Dialogue in 2014 in Beijing, China. On request of Polavaram Project Authority, in 2017, he led the NHPC expert team to the Polavaram Multi-Purpose project for the alternate arrangement of the cofferdam.
He went to Stockholm, Sweden in 1993 under the Transfer of Technology Programme. He also participated in ICOLD-2004, Seoul, South Korea, and ICOLD-2016, Johannesburg, South Africa.
This person is not in the org chart
This person is not in any offices
NHPC
1 followers
NHPC Limited is engaged in electricity generation. The Company is engaged in electric power generation by hydroelectric power plants. The Company is also engaged in contracts, project management and consultancy works. Its power stations include Bairasiul, Salal, Chamera-I, Tanakpur, Dhauliganga, Rangit and Loktak. Its focuses on Teesta Low Dam-IV Hydroelectric Project (160 megawatt), West Bengal; Kishanganga Hydroelectric Project (330 megawatt), Jammu and Kashmir; Parbati- II Hydroelectric Project (800 megawatt), Himachal Pradesh, and Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Project (2, 000 megawatt), Assam/Arunachal Pradesh. It provides consultancy services in various fields of hydropower, including river basin studies, survey works, design and engineering, geological studies, geotechnical studies, hydraulic transient studies, hydrological studies, contract management, construction management, equipment planning, underground construction, testing, commissioning, and operation and maintenance.