DEWA Honors 45 Distinguished Employees

As part of its continuous efforts and strategy to encourage distinguished and creative employees to pursue excellence, Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has honored 45 administrative and technical employees, who won excellence awards from the Employee Appreciation program, during a ceremony held at its head office. HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of DEWA, honored the employees. Dr. Yousef Al Akraf, EVP-Business Support and VP- Human Resources, EVPs, VPs and a number of DEWA’s top officials and employees attended the ceremony. “This recognition falls in line with the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to provide a competitive and positive workplace to enhance DEWA’s position at the UAE level. In this regard, DEWA honors its employees to develop a culture of excellence in a way that positively reflects on the workplace,” said HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of DEWA. His Excellency has praised distinguished employees’ efforts; stressing the fact that top management cares for all employees and is seeking to activate communication channels to all levels and divisions to promote performance and optimize efficiency. His Excellency also highlighted the importance of hard work and dedication to pursue excellence. “DEWA is keen to honor distinguished employees throughout the year. Thanks to those employees’ enormous efforts, DEWA can reach higher levels of excellence. Our employees are among the most important factors of developing performance, and we mainly keen to encourage and encourage them to make their best efforts to enhance DEWA’s promotion and leadership,” said Dr. Yousef Al Akraf, EVP-Business Support and VP- Human Resources. His Excellency honored the distinguished team from Customer Service Division at DEWA. This team received the award because they succeeded in increasing DEWA’s revenues and reducing its outstanding due amounts. The members of the team are: Ahmed Mohammed Hassan, Maryam Rashid Eid, Khaled Salem Saeed, Mohsen Akeel Mohammad, Saeedullah Mian Muhammad, Sarfraz Khan, Sunil Mirchandani, Afaf Ali, Mohammad Mansour, Dust Mohammad, Mohammad Khalifa, Mirza Othman, Abdullah Al Marzouqi, Jawaher Ismail, Ahmed Faheem, Laila Abdul Kader, Khaled Obaid Al Sweidi, and Nadeem Asghar. The second team was recognized in the category of administrative experience. It composed of employees from Customer Service and Information Technology, who received this recognition because of their success in reducing customer visits related to inquiring about municipality fees. They also have automated housing fees and reduced time required to announce housing fees from ten days to only one day. The members of the team are: Ahmed Mohammed Hassan, Saeedullah Mian Muhammad, Muhammad Asif Malik, Sunil Mirchandani, Sarfraz Khan, Ahmad Abdulbaqi Ahmad , Rizwan Ahsan Siddiqi, Syed Nazimuddin, Syed Mustafa Ali, Hatem Mohamed Ibrahim Mohamed, Samir Michael Labbaci, Laila Ahmed Bandeali, Sekkizhar Nagappan, Sathishkumar Selvarajan, Sujith Jacob Mathew, Suneer Mohamed. The last team from Power and Water Planning Division has won The Best Technical Team Award. Nine employees were recognized as they have carried out a detailed study, which showed that separating power generation from phase one of D Substation will not affect DEWA’s reserve system, however it will lead to a better and optimum power generation and make a saving of AED 60,000 a day. The members of the team are: Shaban Abdel Gelil S.M.Osman, Mohamed Naceur Marzouki, Mahmoud Abdalla Mohd Ahme, Salha Ali Saleh Al Dessi, Mohamed Ali Mohamed Ghareeb, Jayakumar Madhavanpillai, Nada Eltukhy Abdelkhalek Badr, Alaa Ahmed Shawky Ibrahim M.O, Vijayan Ayappan The Project and Connection Services Department was honored in the Distinguished Department Category and Marwan Al Sabbagh, Vice President Project and Connection Services, received the award.