"T Chockalingam, 58, has assumed charge as Director (Finance) of the maharatna public sector engineering and manufacturing enterprise," the power equipment maker said in a statement.
Prior to this, he was heading the finance function as General Manager at BHEL's Tiruchirappalli Unit comprising the high pressure boiler plant and Seamless steel tube plant at Tiruchirappalli and the industrial valves plant at Goindwal in Punjab, it said.
Chockalingam joined BHEL as an executive trainee (Finance) in 1982 and has professional experience in all aspects of finance management.