As part of organizational focus on individual talent development, a number of programs and initiatives have been launched across the organization. One such initiative is to encourage employees to go for self certification and the same is supported by Certification Reimbursment Guidelines. It is heartening to see employees are working on their self development and have started completing these certifications programs. Following employees have successfully completing their certifications till June 2021:

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Basharat Ali

Basharat has successfully completed the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Certification

“In order to grow in the career and as well as company benefits, I was motivated to work hard and complete this certification”

-Basharat Ali

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Heena Saini

Heena has successfully completed the EC Council Certified Security Analyst (ECSA) Certification

“We are in the digital age where information process faster than we can analyze it, processing information in secure manner require deep knowledge in Information Security field. In the lockdown period I decided to utilize my time to upgrade my knowledge & enhance my skills. ECSA is an excellent choice as a security analyst, So I have chosen ECSA as my next milestone to achieve”

-Heena Saini

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Ganesh A

Ganesh has successfully completed the Business Continuity Management Systems (BCMS) Certification

“Auditing has been my area of interest for a long time. Once I moved into QC & BE team, IT business continuity management was a part of my profile. When I got to know about this course, I decided to go for it as it will help me to improvise in my current profile and in my area of interest as well.”

-Ganesh A

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Nanda Kishore

Nanda Kishore has successfully completed the ITILv4 Certification

“I like to learn new things and this motivated me to go for the certification. I look forward to learning more things in future.”

-Nanda Kishore

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Appala Reddy

Appala Reddy has successfully completed the LEAN Six Sigma Certification

“I love this course, This program resulted as a value addition into my experience and knowledge base as now I look for eliminating defects as much as possible and achieving consistent results in the process.”

-Appala Reddy

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MG Sundarganesh

Sundarganesh has successfully completed the Certified Information Security Officer Certification

“I have always had interest in Information Security and this led me to pursue this certification.”

-MG Sundarganesh

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Pradheep Karthikeyan

Pradheep has successfully completed the Java SE8 Professional Programmer Certification

“My Sincere thanks to NPCI for the support and motivation to get this certification done. I am into hands on programming of critical high performance payments applications for almost 16+ years now in my career. Now as an Incharge for the entire developments in Online and Settlement systems at NPCI, all the new age applications are mostly on Java spring. Hence, thought this certification will be a refresher on knowing the details of programming in java 8 and went for it. Also, I am confident that this initiative must have pushed and motivated all my colleagues and connects to go for certifications in the areas of their interest. As we speak, am also attending a daily online session on Data Science\AI\ML\Python and have also managed to pull some of our colleagues and my connections for the same. Thanks.”

-Pradheep Karthikeyan

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Shehzad Malik

Shehzad Malik has successfully Certified the Fraud Examiner Certification

“I was keen to enhance my skills in my domain so that I can deliver the objective with an edge, this course widens ones perspective and helps to bring in multi-facet flavor of risk from across the industry – the entire journey has been wonderful further honing my decision taking abilities.”

-Shehzad Malik

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Neha Gupta

Neha Gupta has successfully completed the Certified Fraud Examiner Certification

“With the motivation from my mentors, I have decided to enroll for ISO 27001:2013 Lead Auditor certification (a global level risk certification given by IRCA). This certification was in my mind since I have been shifted to IT Audit & TPRM Unit, as it will enhance my risk management skills and also going to benefit in my BAUs. Being at work from home, while I have to manage my home and daily routines parallel. So, choosing to complete the ISO Certification was never an easy decision. But as we know Leaders says, “Don’t Limit yourself”. Hence, with all the hard efforts and support from my seniors and personal, I have finally achieved the success. I would like to thank you NPCI and my mentors who have been motivated me to achieve all the way..!!”

-Neha Gupta

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Joseph Xavier

Joseph Xavier has successfully completed the Exin – DevOps Master Certification

“NPCI’s new vision on the DevOps initiative motivated me to understand more about DevOps. While reading the concepts in Internet, I got interested to know more about the tools and techniques involved. That’s how I enrolled in a course, followed by this certification. Self-motivation always keep me happy and active. Being in NPCI always encourage me to learn new things.”

-Joseph Xavier

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Mamta Shukla

Mamta has successfully completed the Applied Financial Risk Management Certification

“I wanted to challenge myself in a way that could help me enhance my domain skills so I opted for ‘Applied Financial Risk Management Certification’ from IIM Raipur. Learning is an “Ongoing” process and I sincerely believe that NPCI fosters an environment where an individual can continuously keep on challenging and upgrading themselves.”

-Mamta Shukla

Let’s congratulate them!


Talent Management continues to be a high priority for NPCI and the Talent Management team has been running various Enterprise learning as well as Customized learning initiatives for all simultaneously.


  • Training Employee Days
    As NPCI moves towards becoming an AI-enabled organization, employees are striving hard to upskill and reskill towards this objective. On average, employees have spent 6.1 employee-days for learning in the past financial year. The following is a summary by mode of learning:
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    The following is a classification of the employee-days by type of learning:

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  • IDP Status
    79% employees have successfully created their IDPs in the Talent Development portal. 56% employees have completed their assigned IDPs.
  • Learning
    Employees have eagerly used e-Learning modules of O’reilly and e-Gurukul. The following is a snapshot of most used course segments:
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  • Feedback
    The following is an overview of Feedback shared by employees for various learning interventions conducted:
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    On average, training programs have a rating of 8/10, with a minimum rating of 5/10 and a maximum rating of 10/10. 85% of the training programs have been rated at 8/10 or higher.