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September 07, 2008


BHEL breaks ground for 2 units at Jagdishpur

It is reported that, as part of its manufacturing capacity expansion to 15,000 MW per annum in the next 2 years, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited is setting up a new fabrication plant and a central stamping unit at Jagdishpur in Sultanpur district of Uttar Pradesh at a cumulative initial investment of INR 306 crore. BHEL said that the foundation stones for both the new units were laid by Congress general secretary and MP Mr Rahul Gandhi. BHEL already has an insulator plant at Jagdishpur.

The new fabrication plant is being set up to meet the burgeoning requirement of fabricated component assemblies required by BHEL’s major units at Bhopal, Haridwar, Hyderabad and Trichy in view of the company’s capacity augmentation to 15,000 MW. The plant would produce around 25,000 tonnes per annum, including about 16,000 tonnes of structures of boilers for power plant sites in the eastern and northern regions.

BHEL said that the central stamping unit is being set up to meet the increased requirement of stampings, a critical part of electrical machines, due to growth in business and market demand for generators and electrical motors. The central stamping unit will be set up at an investment of INR94 crore. Currently, stampings are being manufactured in the Bhopal, Hyderabad and Haridwar units of BHEL with a total installed capacity of about 7.7 million stampings per annum. The demand for stampings is estimated to go up to 13 million per year by 2010-11, for which a centralized unit is being set up.

Mr Ashok K Puri CMD of BHEL said that BHEL’s contribution had crossed 100,000 MW this year covering both the domestic and export markets, in addition to supplying over 25,000 units of electric motors, 70,000 units of traction machines and over 300,000 MVS transformer. He added that “The domestic capability must be nurtured in future too when India is embarking upon an ambitious nuclear power generation program.”

The new project will become fully operational in 3 years and is expected to provide direct and indirect employment to about 1,000 people in the category of technicians, supervisors and engineers.