BUSINESS STUDIESBHARAT HEAVY ELECTRICALS LIMITED

Brightening Lives…Powering Progress…

“The customer is centric to all activities in a business organisation.The real challenge is all about marshalling the resources in pursuit of customer excellence.”

--Ashok K. Puri,Chairman and Managing Director,BHEL

Birth of an Industrial Giant

The power equipment industry was established in India with the setting up of the first plant of BHEL at Bhopal in 1956(under Heavy Electricals India Limited-HEIL).

Today,BHEL is the only ‘Navratna’ company in the engineering sector.

Spread of Operations With 180 products under 30

major product groups,BHEL caters to the core sectors of Indian economy- Power, Industry, Transportation, Transmission, Oil and Gas, Renewable Energy etc.

Employment Opportunities BHEL has a workforce of nearly 43,500 employees at 14

manufacturing divisions,eight service centres and four power sector regional centres,besides over 100 project sites spread all over India and abroad.

All the major units\divisions have been upgraded to the latest ISO-9001:2000 version quality standard certification.BHEL has also secured ISO-14001 certification for environmental management systems and OHSAS-18001 certification for occupational health and safety management systems.

In service of the Nation BHEL sets generate 73% of the

total power in the country while accounting for 65% of India’s total installed generating capacity of 1,23,668 MV(as on Dec.31,2005).That translates into nearly three out of every four homes in India being lit up with power generated by BHEL sets!

Harnessing Solar Energy

Leaps of Success Over 70% of the locomotives on Indian

Railways(the second largest railway network in the world) are powered by BHEL built traction electrics.

Technologies have been developed and commercialised for exploiting non-conventional sources of energy.These include wind electric generators,solar photovoltaic(PV) cells and modules,solar lanterns, solar heating systems etc.

WORK IN PROGRESS

BHEL’s financial performance

GLOBAL REACH

BHEL is one of the largest exporters of engineering products and services from India.Over the years,BHEL has established its reference in over 60 countries-from United States in the west to New Zealand the other side of the world.

PEOPLE IN THE FOREFRONT So far 52 BHEL

employees have won 40 Prime Minister’s Shram Awards for their outstanding achievements leading to higher productivity,improved quality and foreign exchange savings.

A Responsible Corporate citizen As part of its Corporate Social

Responsibility BHEL has adopted 56 villages in the vicinity of its manufacturing plants throughout the country.The company has also joined the United Nations’Global Compact,a partnership between the UN,the business community,international labour and NGOs..

A Growing Industrial Unit at Bangalore

Significant Landmarks (Part-I) 1956 - First manufacturing plant of BHEL set-up at

Bhopal under Heavy Electricals(India)Limited 1969 - BHEL’s entry into India’s Power Sector with

supply and installation of a 30 Megawatt Steam Turbine Generating set at Basin Bridge in Tamil Nadu

1970 - BHEL supplied and commissioned first hydro set (33 MV rating) at Obra Hydro Power Station in U.P

Significant Land marks (Part-II) 1971 - Bags first export

order for boilers for Tuanku Ja’far Thermal Power Station,Malaysia

1976 - BHEL received the first overseas turnkey contract for 2*120 MV Tripoli West Thermal Power Station in Libya.

Significant Landmarks (Part-III) 1980 - Commissions first 120 MV unit at Tripoli

West Power Station of Electricity Corp.,Libya 1984 - Commissions India’s first 500 MV Steam

Turbine Generator set at Trombay Thermal Power Station of Tata Power Company

1989 - The first BHEL manufactured 25kV AC locomotive for hauling passengers and goods trains was supplied to Indian Railways

Significant Landmarks (Part-IV)

1993 - Sets up Gas Turbine based Power Project(2*Frame 6) at Connaught Bridge Power Station in Malaysia in a record time of six months

Significant Landmarks (Part-V) 2004 - Develops Controlled Shunt Reactor 50

MVAr(CSR) which has been installed at Power Grid’s 400 kV Itarsi substation on the Itarsi-Jabalpur transmission line,a world first

2005 - Turnover for FY 2004-05 was Rs10,336 crore and Profit After Tax was Rs953 crore.7th 500MV Unit at Ramagundam STPS of NTPC, commissioned in a record time of just 36 months and 10 days

--Jude George