BHEL to recruit about 4,000 persons annually for 3 yrs

BHEL to recruit about 4,000 persons annually for 3 yrs



As part of expansion plans and embarking on certain new joint ventures, public sector BHEL is to recruit about 4,000 persons including executive engineers annually, at least for the next three years, a top company official said today.







At present,there are 45,000 plus headcount in various BHEL units and the company plans to enhance it to 52,000-55,000 by the end of 2012, B Prasada Rao, Chairman and Managing director of the unit told reporters here last night.







The company had also plans to start industrial training institutes as a solution to overcome the diffculty in getting artisans to BHEL's sub-contractors, he said.







The PSU had forwarded a proposal to the Railway Ministry, enabling them to be a partner with Indian Railways to install a manufacturing unit at the campus of Railway Workshop in Kalcharapar in West Bengal.







The proposed Joint Venture would enable BHEL produce self propulsion vehicles along with delicate components for the Railways on an assured off-take.







He said they have received a fresh order worth about Rs 990 crore from Railways to supply about 150 electric locomotives. BHEL unit at Jhansi would manufacture and supply the engines.







He said works on the joint venture projects for additional power generation of 2x800 MW and 3x800 MWs each in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka respectively was expected to be completed within the next two months.



source;TOI