OPTCL was awarded the Gold Shield for the year 2012-13 in the category of Transmission System Availability among all the transmission utilities of India.OPTCL achieved this by maintaining the system availability at 99.94%.Sri Hemant Sharma,IAS,CMD,OPTCL, Sri P.C. Tripathy,CGM(O&M) and K.K. Mishra,DM(O&M) received the award from Hon'ble Minister of Power,Shri Jyotiraditya Scindia on 04.02.2014 at Vigyan Bhawan,New Delhi