A Government of Ghana company Volta River Authority (VRA), whose core business is to generate and supply electrical energy, deputed a 6-member delegation to India to have a glimpse of BHEl’s engineering and manufacturing capabilities in Hydro sector and also some hydro power plant installations operating with BHEl supplied equipment.
The delegation visited Indira Sagar Hydro Electric Plant wherein BHEl has successfully installed and commissioned 8 nos. Francis machines of 125 MW each for NHDC.
The delegation visited BHEl Bhopal plant the other day. GM-Hydro Dinesh Kumar, and GM-EM S Balakrishnan welcomed the team by presenting bouquets. Brief presentations on design aspects and manufacturing capabilities of Hydro Turbine, Hydro Generator, Governing System and System Engineering were made to the delegation. The representatives of VRA discussed about the prospects of Hydro business in Ghana, Africa.
The team then proceeded for a visit to Hydro laboratory. AGM - HlE apprised the delegation about the in-house Hydro Turbine Model Manufacturing and Model Testing facilities. The team was delighted to see such facility of international standard and appreciated the excellent dedication of BHEl Bhopal for establishing state-of-the-art hydro machinery development station.
This was followed by shop visit to WTM, New Hydro Block and New Transformer Block. During the shop visit, GM-Hydro briefed the delegates about the manufacturing capabilities of hydro equipment and transformers in BHEl Bhopal.
Ghanaian team was highly impressed with international standard of design and manufacturing facilities for so many products at one place.
Meanwhile, Director- HR, BHEl R Krishnan on his visit to Bhopal unit on Monday inaugurated the Advanced Digital Telephone exchange at Kasturba Hospital. Executive Director BHEl Bhopal Shashi Ranjan Prasad, General Manager-HR Shri Sarvesh Chaturvedi, General Manager, P&D&IT Sanjeev Gupta, General Manager, MOD TG Chouragade,
Chief Medical Services, Kasturba Hospital Dr Sarla Menon, AGM,ITS Mukesh Arora, and other senior officials were present on this occasion. The exchange has been connected with the main BHEl exchange through optical fibre.
Simultaneously, Krishnan took stock of the boundary wall under construction in the township and visited the patients of Kasturba Hospital along with the new
machineries being installed in the hospital.