In a simple programme held at BHEl administration building, ED, BHEl (Bhopal) S R Prasad bade farewell to ED BHEl, SS Gupta on attaining the superannuation age.
Prasad along with all general managers & DRO’s in their address threw light on various contributions of Shri Gupta at various posts and prayed for a happy retired life.
Gupta joined BHEl, Bhopal as an engineer trainee on 15 January 1976, after completing his BE-mechanical engineering from Regional Engineering College, Jaipur in 1974 and thereafter got elevated to the position of Executive Director of the unit.
Gupta is amongst the renowned engineers of the country in the steam turbine sector and his contribution on the growth trajectory of steam turbine division, BHEl, Bhopal is enormous. Gupta with his team worked on spare supplies, maintenance, R&M wherein repair-maintenance job of Korba-120MW unit turned out to be a milestone project. After this orders were received from Ukai and other projects for R&M works. Besides Torroidal field casings for Takomac project, IPR Gandhinagar many more Project were executed in Steam turbine division.
He joined the corporations HERP unit at Varanasi on 22 January 2008 on being promoted as the General Manager-Thermal on 25 June 2006. The unit at that point of time was suffering from low order book and other glitches. Gupta under his dynamic leadership not only brought back orders but at the same time within a short span of 2 years made the unit follow the growth track on full efficiency.
On 22 July 2010 he was elevated to the post of Executive Director and thereafter re-designated as the Managing Director of Bharat Heavy Plates & Vessels limited, Vishakhapatnam. On 24 May 2011, Gupta heading Jhansi unit as the Executive Director for a month took over charge as the Executive Director of BHEl-Bhopal, mother plant on 24 June 2011.
On this occasion Prasad also took over charge as the Executive Director of the unit from Gupta.