BHEL mulls Rs 500-cr expansion, modernisation prog

Power equipment supplier Bharat Heavy Electrical Ltd has planned a Rs 500-crore Phase III expansion and modernisation programme of the Trichirappaly unit.

Talking to reporters yesterday, BHEL Trichirappaly Executive Director A V Krishnan said, the governing board of the public sector unit had approved a proposal for the expansion programme.

This would include setting up seven additional bases of 7,200 square metres each, and ultra-modern testing equipment before the end of 2011.

He said Rs 1200 crore was spent on expansion and modernisation in phase-I and phase-II.

The installed capacity of BHEL stood at 10,000 MW in 2007-08 after the phase-1 expansion and it would reach 15,000 MW after the phase-II programme, which was expected to be completed by September this year.