BHEL holds first Power Sector Service Providers’ Meet - “PARTNERS IN PROGRESS”.

Bharat Heavy Elerctricals (BHEL), country’s engineering major, held a day’s meet with its service providers in the erection & commissioning of Power Plants. More than 100 service providers from nation wide attended the meet.

Chairman & Managing Director of BHEL, Mr. Ashok K Puri, inaugurated the meet at Habitat Center. Mr. Puri in his inaugural address to the participants informed that India’s power sector is witnessing major growth in the 10th and 11th Five year Plans. During this 10-year period, Government has planned to add over 1 lakh megawatt to country’s installed generating capacity.

He said, this would in turn translate into doubling the consumption of electricity from 500 units per capita to 1000 units per person, by the year 2012. Mr. Puri said that BHEL is augmenting its manufacturing capacity from 6,000 MW to 10,000 MW annually to meet the target.

Mr. Puri emphasized on the participating service providers that both its present and future partners have to gear up with BHEL for successfully meeting the challenges. Mr. Puri further emphasized that to meet country’s ambitions targets of capacity addition, BHEL is looking forward for technically and financially sound partners (service providers) to ensure timely erection and completion of projects. BHEL is also looking forward to qualified and skilled manpower from its partner’s side, Mr. Puri added.

The Company is expanding its product profile to include higher size advanced class Gas Turbines ( 255 MW) , Thermal sets of 800 to 1000 MW ratings & Hydro sets of up to 250 MW rating. For meeting the challenges of timely completion of projects, service providers are the vital link, Mr. Puri said. There are plenty of opportunities for new service providers in the Power Sector business, he added.

During the meet, BHEL specialists made presentations on the enormity of the expected operations and also on its major success stories. The participating Service Providers shared their experiences with an extensive interactive feed back session.