BHEL able to meet demand of PSU power cos

The government on Tuesday said BHEL has been able to meet demands of state-run power companies, but, there were delays in execution of some projects due to dependency for inputs from multiple agencies.

In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Raghunath Jha said Bharat Heavy Electricals has been able to meet demands of public sector power companies for supplying power generating equipment.

He said the main reason for not meeting demand in terms of implementation of power projects is delay in customer inputs and customer approval, change in specifications during execution and infrastructure inadequacies.

"Another reason is shortage of special imported types of raw materials which are not manufactured indigenously and for which there is shortage worldwide due to heavy capacity booking by Chinese companies," he said.

With a view to meeting the growing demand of power equipment and the emerging power capacity requirements in the country, BHEL is taking steps to enhance its power generation equipment manufacturing capacity from 10,000 MW to 15,000 MW per annum by December 2009, Jha added.

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