With a sales turnover of Rs 33875.70 crore (Rs 338.75 billion), NTPC is the 7 the company in India. NTPC Ltd is the largest power generating company in India.

A public sector company, it was incorporated in 1975 to accelerate power development in the country as a wholly owned company of the government of India. At present, the government of India holds 89.5 per cent of the total equity shares of the company and the balance 10.5 per cent is held by FIIs, Domestic Banks, Public and others.

In a span of 32 years, NTPC has emerged as a truly national power company, with power generating facilities in all the major regions of the country.

NTPC was incorporated in 1975. In the last 31 years, it has grown into the largest power utility of India. NTPC is the sixth largest thermal power generator in the world.

NTPC's maxim is 'Powering people's progress'.

Image:Indian workers use heavy machinery to shift a pile of coal at an open cast mine owned by The Sinagareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) at Godavarikhani, about 250 kilometres east of Hyderabad. The mined and refined coal from the colliery is mostly consumed by the National Thermal Power Station (NTPC) in Ramagundam. | Photograph: Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images