(1) Every person involved in operation and maintenance of transmission lines shall be trained at the induction level and at least once in a year.
(2) The shift staff shall be trained to make them thorough in carrying out operations at each sub-station and every person concerned with real time operation shall be trained.
(3) Every grid operator shall undergo training in real time digital simulator and a refresher course at least once in two years.
(4) The maintenance personnel of every entity shall also be trained in preventive and breakdown maintenance of various equipment and the personnel shall be trained in various detailed maintenance procedures.
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SCHEDULE (See regulation 25) The Devises and Methods for Condition Based Monitoring of Equipment
(1) Hot line puncture detection of insulators
(2) Vibration measurement of the line
(3) Pollution measurement of the equipment
(4) Dissolved Gas Analysis of Transformer oil
(5) Frequency response analysis of transformers/reactors
(6) Tan δ and capacitance measurement
(7) Circuit breaker operational analyzer
(8) Dynamic contact resistance measurements of breakers
(9) Third harmonic resistive current measurements of surge arresters
(10) Recovery voltage measurements of transformers/reactors
(11) Vibration measurements of the reactors
(12) Steady state and Dynamic testing of protective relays
(13) Signature Analysis
(14) Partial Discharge measurement for transformers/Gas insulated Switchgear
(15) Static resistance meter for circuit breakers, isolators, bus bar joint, earth switches etc.
(16) Ground tester for measurement of resistivity of soil and ground resistance
(17) Battery impedance test equipment
(18) Insulator tester
(19) SF6 gas leakage detector and dew point
(20) Power quality Analyzer
(21) Fibre optic cable testing devices