Story of Success

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited

Founded in 1953, BHEL now has presence in India and 70 other countries with ever growing revenue and assets. It is one of India’s nine largest Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs), known as the Navratnas or the nine jewels. At present it’s under the Chairman/Managing Director, Mr. B. Prasad Rao.

According to Mr. Arun Poddar, CE System Testing, Senior Manager at BHEL EDN, there are few key points for BHEL to still hold the market. Firstly its under the government, which means land acquisition is not an issue and also have more contacts in the market. Permission or license to build is very simple to get and the government makes any investment such as on raw materials when required. There are certainly other disadvantages being in the public sector such as electricity theft and provision to politicians for free.

BHEL at present has a capacity of 10,000 MW but by the end of this year it’ll reach its mark of 15,000MW, and have plans to enhance its manufacturing capacity to 20,000MW.