Historical landmarks
Following are the historical landmarks in the lifetime of the company from the date of formation:[7] 2008 - completed the 220 KV Double Circuit Transmission line from Pul-e-Khumri to Kabul Transmission System in Afghanistan.
2006 - Commissioned the unified load despatch and communications scheme for the western region and also entered into an agreement with REC and certain state governments and state utilities for undertaking rural electrification works under the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana in nine states in India.
2005 - Commissioned the unified load despatch and communications scheme for the eastern region.
2003 - Entered into a joint venture arrangement with the Tata Power Company Ltd for implementing a part of the entire transmission system associated with the Tala Hydro-Electric Project, which was the first public-private sector initiative in the transmission sector, and commissioned the 400 KV Raipur-Rourkela line transmission line developed by it, and also secured their first international consultancy contract from Bhutan Telecommunications.
2002 - Commissioned the unified load dispatch and communications schemes for the northern and southern regions, and also commissioned the 2,000 MW Talchar-Kolar bipolar HVDC link developed by it.
2001 - Department of Telecommunications, GoI, granted Infrastructure Provider II license (IP II), to pursue leasing of bandwidth capacity to various customers on their telecommunications network.
1996 - Acquired the management of the remaining two regional load despatch centres, the Northern Regional Load Despatch Centre and the Western Load Despatch centre.
1995 - Acquired the management of the Eastern Regional Despatch Centre and the North Eastern Load Despatch Centre.
1994 - Took over the management of Southern Regional Load Despatch Centre and transmission assets from Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd, which were transferred to the company.
