Ex-GM, BHEl Ml Mittal, has been awarded the most prestigious “life Time Achievement Award” of the Indian transformer industry, during the international conference on transformers “TRAFOTECH-2014” held at Bangalore International Convention Centre.
The award was conferred to him by Joint Secretary Ministry of Power BN Sharma, for his outstanding contribution to the Indian transformer industry in last 5 decades. MD KPTCl GK Naik, president IEEMA Raj Eeshwaran, (Chairman IEEMA- Transformer division and GM-TCB, BHEl) RK Tiwari, apex level dignitaries and eminent national/ international experts were also present on the occasion.
“TRAFOTECH” the most important international conference of the Indian transformer industry, is organised by IEEMA. This is held every 4 years concurrent to “ElECRAMA” and it confers lifetime award to eminent personality, who has devoted his entire career for developing transformer technology in India.
Mittal started his career in transformer engineering department of BHEl and has held many responsible positions in the transformer department of BHEl Bhopal, Jhansi and also in transmission department at Delhi. He started his career from 1 MVA, 33 kV transformer, in early 60’s and had significant contribution to the transformer industry since then, specially technology transfer of 1st 400 kV transformers in India in the early 70s.
He had significant contribution in BHEl’s 1st ± 500 kV HVDC technology under collaboration with ABB Sweden in 80s, apart from his outstanding contribution to the national and International standards. He has more than a dozen technical papers for various national and international events to his credit.
It is a matter of achievement that out of the 4 life time Achievement Awards so far by “TRAFOTECH”, 3 have been grabbed by Ex- BHEl personnel.