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RESILIENCE OF OUR SPV’S DURING COVID -19 CHALLENGES

Our site people are akin to COVID warriors. Though it was far from business as usual, employees of our SPV stoically manned the

toll plaza and toll offices amongst the great stress and uncertainty due to pandemic. Teams at site fol-lowed COVID – 19 SOP and guidelines, underwent the trainings and took all precautions to keep them out of harm’s way. Flu Manager’s at site and Head Office helped not only in an efficient reporting but also to monitoring closely and continuously the situation on ground and arranged the support needed. During this time, additional rigorous cleaning and hygiene protocols such as washing of hands, fre-quent sanitization, fumigation of working places,

toilets, toll booths, offices, ambulances, route pa-trolling vehicles throughout our projects were im-plemented. Further, we started practicing supple-mentary safety precautions including scattering of shift’s, social distancing, daily temperature checks and getting RT-PCR test of our employees as and when required to protect our employees. We pro-vided Corona – Kawach to all our employees and their families. Corona Kawach is a COVID-19 spe-cific insurance covering the costs not covered under regular medical policies. Several awareness sessions on COVID – 19 SOP, Guidelines, Yoga & Wellbeing were conducted. SPV employees were provided immunity boosters such as Chyawanprash and Arsenic – 30. Due to imple-

mentation of various responsive measures to miti-gate risks and threats towards employee’s health and safety, SPVs have witnessed small number of COVID 19 cases amongst its employees. In JPEPL, though at one time 34 employees were infected, they were all declared negative in less than a week. Maintaining business continuity with limited avail-able resources in high risk period has been a test of resilience for our site employees. No doubt, SPV teams have come out as a winner in this challenging time. We salute their resilience, courage and solidar-ity. CEO and General Managers visited sites during September and October to connect with site teams and to convey organisation’s appreciation of their work in this tough time.

Farewell Function of Narayanan Subramanian

Fa r e w e l l o f M r. N a r a y a n a n Subramanian was organised on 29th October 2020 at Grand

Salon Opera, Sofitel Hotel, BKC. N a r a y a n a n w a s o n e o f i n i t i a l employees of HC 1 and was responsible for take-over of road assets for India Infrastructure Fund. Also, he provided an excellent O&M coverage over the assets. His decision to quit was indeed co n s i d e r e d a b i g lo s s b o t h b y leadership (both of HC 1 and GIP) as well as other employees. A large co n t i n ge n t o f a b o u t 2 0 p e o p le physically attended the farewell while many others joined it through zoom link. Many of us shared the moments of

togetherness such as sharing of dollar a day lunch with CEO, travelling with Nari, playing chess as part of sports day and many other personal moments were shared. All present beheld his e a r t h y h u m o u r, s i m p l i c i t y a n d dedication to team in awe and respect. Project Managers related to him as a friend, mentor, guide with whom they could confide. In the end, Narayanan spoke about his journey with HC 1 and that he would behold the memories of HC 1 while he moves on. All at HC 1 and GIP wished him well for new chapter of his career and life. We also, convey our gratitude for developing the organisation and look forward to remain in touch forever in future.

Neeraj Sanghi, CEO, HC 1 visited sites during September – October 2020.

GEPL.

DBCPL. BETPL. UEPL.

SEPL. JPEPL.

INROADSNEWSUPDATE 02HOAI Webinar on “Negotiation Does Not Always Mean Bargaining” on 9th October 2020 by Neeraj Sanghi

Plantation by Mr. Neeraj Sanghi, CEO, HC 1 at DBCPL - Fanda Toll Plaza on 28th Sep. 2020 followed by distribution of saplings and plantation rally.

Plantation by Mr.Neeraj Sanghi, CEO, HC 1 at JPEPL – Gajangarh Toll Plaza on 30th Sept. 2020. Plantation by Mr. Soma Ram, ASI of Luni, Jodhpur Police Station at JPEPL – Nimbli Toll Plaza on 1st October 2020.

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Bargaining is typically a win/loose phenomenon where one party will always be slightly unhappy than other. Only question is how slightly is that slightly. While 90% or so transactions are meant to be solved by

bargaining, but we deploy bargaining as a means to solution even where negotiation could lead to more value added solution. Bargaining essentially means haggling process over the single parameter usually cost, while Negotiation focusses on differentiated requirements of negotiators. For example, position (which is stated) could differ from interest (which is underlying and invisible). A good negotiator would unearth the interest of the

counterparty and weave the same in the negotiation skill-fully. Neeraj highlighted many transactions in road sector where bargaining is the order of the day but a little change of perspective could bring more strategic and value added results. Successful negotiation needs preparation to have a wider perspective where long term, qualitative factors could be incorporated in discussions. During the webinar various polls were conducted where the attendees were asked their view regarding negotiation style, outcome of negotiation, etc. Webinar was appreciated by the 60 participants who attended it.

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Kiran Babu & Ashish Thite were appreciated and rewarded for bagging FICCI Road Safety Award for “Outstanding

Commitment to Road, DBCPL.

Sachin Joshi was appreciated and rewarded for bagging MORTH Silver Award for Excellence in Highway

Safety (hilly terrain), SEPL.

Octavia Vas, gave innovative idea of watering through drip irrigation system along with self - watering spike method lasting for 15- 20 days.

Kiran Babu, gave innovative idea of unmanned aerial vehicle ie. watering through drone and having a bird’s eye view for

monitoring the plant growth.

A n n a m a l a i M u t h u wa s appreciated and rewarded

fo r b ag g i n g M O RT H Champion recognition for

Excellence in Innovation, UEPL.

Venkata Ramana was a p p r e c i a t e d a n d

rewarded for bagging MORTH Silver Award

for Green Highway, NBL.

Opening of HC1 Office

Free Eye Check – UP CAMP at UEPL and GEPL

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Office of HC 1 was finally opened on October 20, 2020 after being shut for seven months. SOP for office opening was in place and all the preventive measures like weekly fumigation of office, staggering

duty as per requirement, maintaining social distancing and allowing employees to travel by personal/ private vehicle (instead of public transport)

were taken to contain the spread to HC 1 team. Initial four week’s period, the attendance was optional. Post Diwali, attendance was built up to 30% which will be brought to 60% in New Year. While COVID – 19 threat is lurking around the corner, we are trying to adopt as safe as work environment as possible.

Chief Guest Mr. Nallasivam, Deputy Superintendent of Police Villupuram, inaugurated FREE EYE CHECK - UP CAMP by lightning Traditional KUTHUVILAKKU LAMP and handover a Spectacle to UEPL

Driver. EYE CAMP was organized by the SHELL –VISION SPRING Team at

Vikravandi Toll plaza, UEPL at Truck Lay-Bys, for next three months, benefiting free check and spectacle for auto drivers of Ulunderpet auto stand, taxi drivers, truck drivers of the transport corporation of the state and all those highway drivers holding valid licenses.

FREE EYE CHECK – UP CAMP for Road Users & Drivers at GEPL was inaugurated by Chief Guest Shri Z. A. Sultani, Project Director, NHAI, PIU Godhra by cutting the ribbon and Shri Naresh Kumar Gaur, Team Leader & Shri Nakul Jagdishbhai Panchal,

Senior PSI by lightning of lamp on 23rd November 2020.

Rewarding team for bagging awards for Excellence – 2019

Rewarding top two Innovative Ideas for watering the median plantation

Virtual Innovative Celebration of DIWALI - 2020 by HC 1 team by lighting lamp of mobile

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:- Continued Training & Engagement Activities -:

Building Resilience Training

COVID – 19 SOP awareness session to HC 1 office staff before starting office by Mr. Vidyadhar Dabholkar & Ms. Silalipi Mishra on 19th October 2020.

The training on Building Resilience was organized for both SPV’s and HC 1 team. While, the entire world is struggling to deal with the pandemic COVID – 19 and it is likely that businesses (as much as personal lives) are

affected by the pandemic, it is essential for all of us to adhere to safety requisites as well as to bounce back from the current situation with more determination.

It is important for every individual to enrich an aptitude to recover quickly from the adversity in the personal as well as professional life. Every individual has the key to unlock the true hidden potential to convert the adverse situation into affirmative prospects. Resilience training was a reminder for individuals to have better locus of control which will be a help in overcoming challenges.

Building Resilience training for HC 1 by Mr. Gaurav Ahuja on 12th & 19th November 2020.

COVD – 19 awareness for JPEPL team by Mr. Vineet Srivastava on 21st November 2020.

COVD – 19 awareness & Statutory compliance training for DBCPL team by Mr. Vidyadhar Dabholkar on 25th November 2020.

Gender Sensitization training for DBCPL team by Dr. Deepa Sharma on 25th November 2020.

Building Resilience training held for all SPV team by Mr. Gaurav Ahuja on 7th & 15th October 2020.