TN Veeraraghavan resumes charge as BHEL's Director (E, R&D)

TN Veeraraghavan has assumed charge as director (engineering, research & development) of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL). Prior to this, he was heading the company’s boiler auxiliaries plant at Ranipet as executive director.
 
Veeraraghavan has 38 years of diversified and versatile professional experience through working in major segments of BHEL. He has handled a variety of assignments in strategic as well as operational areas in various capacities and functions. He was elevated to the position of Executive Director in July, 2011. Starting his career in BHEL as an engineer trainee at Bangalore in 1977, Veeraraghavan was involved in production of control equipment and engineering of controls for combined cycle plants.
 
He was instrumental in setting up state-of-the-art facilities for manufacturing and testing of electronic automation systems for steam turbines at Bangalore in line with practices at KWU/Siemens. Subsequently, Veeraraghavan was involved in establishing the manufacturing and testing facilities at Bangalore for speedtronic Mark-IV controls for gas turbines in line with those established at General Electric, USA.
 
Under his stewardship, a number of productivity projects were mentored by him in the manufacturing and engineering areas relating to value engineering, economic buying and import substitution resulting in huge savings with regard to time and money for the organisation. Veeraraghavan has also earlier headed BHEL’s Spares and Services Business Group at Delhi dealing with spares, services, renovation and modernisation of thermal/hydro power stations across the country, and later the company’s transmission business group at Delhi.