BHEL for Phase III expansion.

iruchirapalli: The public sector Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) here will be preparing detailed project report for the third phase of expansion to augment capacity for executing new orders, BHEL General Manager Incharge V Ananthakrishnan said.

Addressing workers here yesterday after assuming charge, Ananthakrishnan said the present order book of the BHEL unit here stood at Rs 20,000 crore and would go up further.

With continious growth in orders for power equipment, BHEL was already carrying out expansion in two phases at a cost of Rs 922 crore. The work was expected to be completed by March Next.

The proposed third phase of expansion would help add production capacity by 5000 MW to the existing cpacity of 15,000 MW.

The present order book position was comfortable for the next four years and sought the cooperation of the workers to register continuous growth.

BHEL outgoing Executive Director R N Mishra said the company was negotiating with Reliance Power for supplying five units of 800 MW super critical boilers worth Rs 2,600 crore.