Employee benefits

BHEL is the largest engineering and manufacturing enterprise in India in the energy-related/infrastructure sector, today. BHEL was established more than 40 years ago, ushering in the indigenous Heavy Electrical Equipment industry in India - a dream that has been more than realized with a well-recognized track record of performance. The company has been earning profits continuously since 1971-72 and paying dividends since 1976-77. 

BHEL caters to the core sectors of the Indian Economy, viz. Power, Transmission, Industry, Transportation, Renewable Energy, Oil & Gas and Defence. The wide network of BHEL’s 15 Manufacturing Divisions, 4 Power Sector Regional Centres, 8 Service Centres, 15 Regional Offices, 4 Overseas Offices, 1 Subsidiary and over 100 project sites spread all over India enables the Company to promptly serve its customers and provide them with suitable products, systems and services -- efficiently and at competitive prices. The high level of quality & reliability of its products is due to the emphasis on design, engineering and manufacturing to international standards by acquiring and adapting some of the best technologies from leading companies in the world, together with technologies developed in its own R&D centres.

BHEL has acquired certifications to Quality Management Systems (ISO 9001), Environmental Management Systems (ISO 14001) and Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems (OHSAS 18001) and is also well on its journey towards Total Quality Management.  

  BHEL has Installed equipment for over 1,00,000 MW of power generation- for Utilities, Captive and Industrial users.

Supplied over 2,25,000 MVA transformer capacity and other equipment operating in Transmission & Distribution network up to 400 kV (AC & DC).

Supplied over 25,000 Motors with Drive Control System to Power projects, Petrochemicals, Refineries, Steel, Aluminum, Fertilizer, Cement plants, etc.

Supplied Traction electrics and AC/DC locos to power over 12,000 kms Railway network.

Supplied over one million Valves to Power Plants and other Industries.

BHEL's operations are organised around three business sectors, namely Power, Industry - including Transmission, Transportation and Renewable Energy - and Overseas Business. This enables BHEL to have a strong customer orientation, to be sensitive to his needs and respond quickly to the changes in the market.

BHEL's vision is to become a world-class engineering enterprise, committed to enhancing stakeholder value. The company is striving to give shape to its aspirations and fulfill the expectations of the country to become a global player.

The greatest strength of BHEL is its highly skilled and committed 45,505 employees. Every employee is given an equal opportunity to develop himself and grow in his career. Continuous training and retraining, career planning, a positive work culture and participative style of management � all these have engendered development of a committed and motivated workforce setting new benchmarks in terms of productivity, quality and responsiveness.

  Product profile

Established in the late 50’s, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) is, today, a name to reckon with in the industrial world. It is the largest engineering and manufacturing enterprise of its kind in India and one of the leading international companies in the power field. BHEL offers over 180 products and provides systems and services to meet the needs of core sectors like: power, transmission, industry, transportation, oil & gas, non-conventional energy sources and telecommunication. A wide-spread network comprising 14 manufacturing divisions, 8 service centres, 4 power sector regional centres, 18 regional offices, besides a large number of project sites spread all over India and abroad, enables BHEL to be close to its customers and cater to their specialised needs with total solutions - efficiently and economically. An ISO 9000 certification has given the company international recognition for its commitment towards quality. With an export presence in more than 60 countries, BHEL is truly India’s industrial ambassador to the world.

  PRODUCT RANGE

This list is intended as a general guide and does not represent all of BHEL's products and systems. For more details

THERMAL POWER PLANTS

Steam turbines and generators of up to 500MW capacity for utility and combined-cycle applications; capability to manufacture steam turbines with super critical steam cycle parameters and matching generator up to 1000 MW unit size.Steam turbines for CPP applications; capability to manufacture condensing, extraction, back pressure, injection or any combination of these types.

GAS BASED POWER PLANTS

Gas turbines of up to 260MW (ISO) rating.

Gas turbine based co-generation and combined-cycle systems for industry and utility applications.

HYDRO POWER PLANTS

Custom-built conventional hydro turbines of Kaplan, Francis and Pelton types with matching generators, pump turbines with matching motor-generators.Mini/micro hydro sets.

Spherical, butterfly and rotary valves and auxiliaries for hydro station

DG POWER PLANTS

HSD, LDO, FO, LSHS, natural-gas/biogas based diesel power plants, unit rating up to 20MW and voltage up to 11kV,

for emergency, peaking as well as base load operations on turnkey basis.

INDUSTRIAL SETS

Industrial turbo-sets of ratings from 1.5 to 120MW.

Gas turbines land matching generators ranging from 3 to 260MW (ISO) rating.

Industrial stream turbines and gas turbines for drive applications and co-generation applications.

BOILERS

Steam generators for utilities, ranging from 30 to 500MW capacity, using coal, lignite, oil, natural gas or a combination of these fuels: capability to manufacture boilers with super critical parameters up to 1000 MW unit size.Steam generators for industrial applications, ranging from 40 to 450t/hour capacity using coal, natural gas, industrial gases, biomass, lignite, oil, bagasse or a combination of these fuels.Pulverized fuel fired boilers.

Stoker boilers.

Atmospheric fluidized bed combustion boilers.

Circulating fluidized bed combustion boilers.

Waste heat recovery boilers.

Chemical recovery boilers for paper industry, ranging from capacity of 100 to 1000 t/day of dry solids.

Pressure vessels.

BOILER AUXILIARIES

Fan Axial reaction fans of single stage and double stage for clean air application, with capacity ranging from 25 to 800m3/s and pressure ranging from 120 to 1,480 m of gas column.Axial impulse fans for both clean air and flue gas applications, with capacity ranging from 7 to 600m3/s and pressure up to 700 m of gas column.Single and double-suction radial fans for clean air and dust-laden hot gases applications up to 400oC, with capacity ranging from 4 to 600m3/s and pressure ranging from 150 to 1,800 m of gas column.

Air-Pre-heaters

Ljungstrom rotary regenerative air-pre-heaters for boiler and process furnaces.

Large regenerative air-preheaters for utilities of capacity up to 1000 MW.

Gravimetric Feeders

Pulverizes

Bowl mills of slow and medium speed of capacity up to 100 t/hour.

Tube mills for pulverizing low-grade coal with high-ash content.

Pulse Jet and Reverse Air Type Fabric Filters (Bag Filters)

Electrostatic Precipitators

Electrostatic precipitators of any capacity with efficiency up to 99.9% for utility and industrial applications.

Mechanical Separators

Soot Blowers

Long retractable soot blowers (travel up to 12.2m), wall deslaggers, rotary blowers and temperature probes and related control panels operating on pneumatic, electric or manual mode.Swivel arm type soot blowers for regenerative air-preheaters.

Valves

High-pressure and low-pressure bypass valves for utilities.

High and medium-pressure valves, cast and forged steel valves of gate, globe, non-return (swing-check and piston lift-check) types for steam, oil and gas duties up to 600 mm diameter, 250 kg/cm2 pressure and 540oC temperature.High-capacity safety valves and automatic electrical operated pressure relief valves for set pressure up to 200 kg/cm2 and temperature up to 550oC.Safety relief valves for applications in power, process and other industries for set pressure up to 175 kg/cm2 and temperature up to 565oC.Piping Systems, Constant Load Hangers, Clamp and Hanger components, variable Spring hangers for power stations upto 850 MW capacities, combined cycle plants, industrial boilers and process industries. 

HEAT EXCHANGERS AND PRESSURE VESSELS

CS/AS/SS/Nonferrous shell and tube heat exchangers and pressure vessels.

Air-cooled heat exchangers.

Surface condensers.

Steam jet air ejectors.

Columns.

Reactors, drums.

LPG/propane storage bullets.

LPG/propane store mounded vessels.

Feed water heaters.

PUMPS

Pumps for various applications to suit utilities up to a capacity of 660 MW.

Boiler feed pumps (motor or steam turbine driven).

Boiler feed booster pumps.

Condensate pumps.

Circulating water pumps.

Emergency oil pumps.

Lubricating oil pumps.

Standby oil pumps.

POWER STATION CONTROL EQUIPMENT

Microprocessor-based distributed digital control systems.

Data acquisition systems.

Man-machine interface.

Sub-station controls with SCADA.

Static excitation equipment/automatic voltage regulator.

Electro-hydraulic governor control.

Turbine supervisory system and control.

Furnace safeguard supervisory systems.

Controls for electrostatic precipitators.

Controls for HP/LP bypass valves.

SWITCHGEARS

Switchgear of the various types for indoor and outdoor applications and voltage ratings up to 400 kV.

Minimum oil circuit breakers (66K – 132kV).

SF6 circuit breakers (132 kV – 400 kV).

Vacuum circuit breakers (3.3 kV – 33 kV).

Gas insulated switchgears (36 kV).

BUS DUCTS

Bus-ducts with associated equipment to suit generator power output of utilities of up to 500 MW capacity.

TRANSFORMERS

Power transformers for voltage up to 400 kV.

HVDC transformers and reactors up to + 500 kV rating.

Series and shunt reactors of up to 400 kV rating.

Instrument transformers:

Current transformers up to 400 kV.

Electro-magnetic voltage transformers up to 220 kV.

Capacitor voltage transformers up to 400 kV.

Cast resin dry type transformers up to 10 MVA 33 kV.

Special transformers: earthing; furnace; rectifier; electrostatic precipitator; freight loco and AC EMU and traction transformers.

INSULATORS

  High-tension ceramic insulators.

Disc/suspension insulators for AC/DC applications, ranging from 45 to 400 kn electro-mechanical strength, for clean and pollute atmospheres.

Pin insulators of up to 33 kV.

Post insulators suitable for applications of up to 6 units.

Hollow porcelains of up to 400 kV.

Solid core insulators of 25 kV rating (both porcelain and hybrid) for railways.

Disc insulators for 800 kV AC and HVDC transmission lines (BHEL is the first Indian manufacturer to supply such insulators).

CAPACITORS 

Power capacitors for industrial and power systems of up to 250 kVAr rating for application up to 400 kV.

Coupling/CVT capacitors for voltages up to 400 kV.

Low Tension Thyristor Switched Capacitors (LTTSC) for dynamic power factor correction

ENERGY METERS

Single Phase, Poly Phase and Special-purpose electro-mechanical and electrical meters.

Towards meeting its Quality Policy, BHEL is using the vehicle of Quality Management Systems, which are certified to ISO 9001:2000 series of Standards by Internationally acclaimed certifying agency, BVQI. 

Corporate Quality and Unit level Quality structure enables requisite planning, control and implementation of Company-wide Quality Policy and Objectives which are linked to the Company's Vision statement. Corporate Quality derives strength from direct reporting to Chairman and Managing Director of the Company. 

Other than traditional Quality functions, today the focus is on:.

Propagating Quality Management Systems and Total Quality Management.

Formulating, implementing and monitoring, "Improvement Plans" with focus on internal and external Customer Satisfaction.

Investigations and preventive actions on Critical Quality Issues.

Calibration and testing laboratories of BHEL are accredited under the National Accreditation Board for Calibration and Testing Laboratories (NABL) scheme of Laboratory Accreditation, which has got mutual recognition with Asia Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Conference and International Laboratory Accreditation Conference. 

As a result of its thrust on quality and technology, BHEL enjoys national and international recognition in the form of Product Certification by International Bodies like ASME, API etc. and Plant Approvals by agencies like Lloyds Register of Shipping, U.K., Chief Controller of Explosives India, TUV Germany etc. 

In its movement towards Business Excellence and with the objective of achieving International level of Quality, BHEL has adopted European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) model for Business Excellence. Through this model and annual self-assessment exercise, BHEL is institutionalising continuous improvement in all its operations

  Product Certifications and StampsCertificate   Products   Certifying Agency  

  "S" Stamp Boilers American Society of Mechanical Engineers, USA

"U" and "U2" Stamps Heat Exchangers and Pressure Vessels

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, USA

 "R" Stamp Boilers, Heat Exchangers & Pressure vessels

National Board, USA

"6A", "6D" & "17D" monograms

Oil Field Equipments American Petroleum Institute, USA

 "SL", "SCT" monograms

Pipes & Tubes American Petroleum Institute, USA

Well known Tube/Pipe maker certificate

Tubes & Pipes Central Boiler Board, India

Plant Approvals   Approvals  Unit/ Division Certifying Agency Class 1 Fusion Welded Pressure Vessel Manufacturers  

High Pressure Boiler

Plant, Tiruchy Lloyds Register of Shipping, U.K.

Group 1 - Boiler and Pressure Vessel

Manufacturers

High Pressure Boiler

Plant, Tiruchy American Bureau of Shipping, USA

Authorisation under

SMPV rules High Pressure Boiler

Plant, Tiruchy Chief Controller of Explosives, India

Authorisation under TRD rules and ADM

rules

High Pressure Boiler

Plant, Tiruchy TUV, Germany

AD Markblatt HPO approval for

Heavy Electrical Equipment Plant,

TUV, Germany

Combustion Chambers Haridwar Well known Forge shop Forge shop of Heavy

Electrical Equipment

Plant, Haridwar

Central Boiler Board, India

Well known Forge shop Central Foundry Forge

Plant, Haridwar Central Boiler Board, India

Approval for training and qualification of

welders under IBR

Welding Research

Institute, Tiruchy Central Boiler Board, India

Approved Electrode

Test Center Welding Research

Institute, Tiruchy Bureau of Indian Standards

Well known RLA agency High Pressure Boiler

Plant, Tiruchy Central Boiler Board, India

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Employee benefits:

Some of the employee benefits apart from pay scales are given below:

Dearness allowance given 4 times in a year House rent allowance City compensatory allowance Washing allowance Festival advance Reimbursement of tuition fee Reimbursement of cost of newpaper Conveyance Reimbursement Vehicle maintenance Vehicle loan interest subsidy Housing loan interest subsidy Reimbursement for membership of professional body Reimbursement of interest charges Annual leave

Period of service(in yrs.)

Cl el Hpl

Up to 5 yrs 10 225 to 10 yrs 10 24 2010 to 15 yrs 12 2615 to 20 yrs 12 28More than 20 yrs 12 30

Leave travel concession (ltc once in a block of two yrs)/ leave travel assistance

Benefits for site employees

a. allowance

01.site daily allowances02.site kit reimbursement03. washing allowance04.meal expenses reimbursement05.late night snack allowance06. welding allowance to high pressure welders

B. advances/interest subsidy

01 Interest free advance

02Festival advance

01. Hlis, vlis &pclis to site employees under tatkal scheme02. Interest subsidy on housing loan (hlis)03. Interest subsidy on vehicle loan (vlis)04. Interest subsidy on pc loan (pclis)

c. employee benefits 01.provision of accommodation 02. provision of electricity 03.conveyance reimbursements and maintenance 04.reimbursement of expenses incurred towads children education 05. reimbursement of entertainment expenditure 06. reimbursement of residential telephone charges 07.medical benefits 08. gift vouchers for employees 09. bhel excel awards scheme 10. holiday homes 11.preference to dwelling units owned by site employees 12. ta/da rules 13. travel concession for employees children studying away from the piace of posting

of the employees

d. welfare 01.uniform 02.safety appliances 03. recreation facilities 04. refreshments 05. field hostel arrangement

e. social security 01. group insurance 02. employees deposit linked insurance scheme 03. group saving linked insurance scheme 04. enhanced insurance cover for site employees 05. individual personal accident insurance cover 06. exgratia payment to dependents of those killed in terrorist attack 07. death relief fund 08. housing loan group insurance scheme 09. retired employee’s contributory health scheme