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About BHEL Jhansi:
By the end of 5th five-year plan, it
was envisaged by the planning commission that the demand for power transformer
would rise in the coming years. Anticipating the country’s requirement BHEL
decided to set up a new plant, which would manufacture power and other types of
transformers in addition to the capacity available in BHEL Bhopal. The Bhopal
plant was engaged in manufacturing transformers of large ratings and Jhansi unit
would concentrate on power transformer upto 50 MVA, 132 KV class and other
transformers like Instrument Transformers, Traction transformers for railway
etc.
This unit of Jhansi was established around 14 km from the city on the N.H. No 26
on Jhansi Lalitpur road. It is called second-generation plant of BHEL set up in
1974 at an estimated cost of Rs 16.22 crores inclusive of Rs 2.1 crores for
township. Its foundation was laid by late Mrs. Indira Gandhi the prime minister
on 9th Jan. 1974. The commercial production of the unit began in 1976-77 with an
output of Rs 53 lacs since then there has been no looking back for BHEL Jhansi.
The plant of BHEL is equipped with most modern manufacturing processing and
testing facilities for the manufacture of power, special transformer and
instrument transformer, Diesel shunting locomotives and AC/DC locomotives. The
layout of the plant is well streamlined to enable smooth material flow from the
raw material stages to the finished goods. All the feeder bays have been laid
perpendicular to the main assembly bay and in each feeder bay raw material
smoothly gets converted to sub assemblies, which after inspection are sent to
main assembly bay.
The raw material that are produced for manufacture are used only after thorough
material testing in the testing lab and with strict quality checks at various
stages of productions. This unit of BHEL is basically engaged in the production
and manufacturing of various types of transformers and capacities. With the
growing competition in the transformer section, in 1985-86 it under took the
re-powering of DESL. In 1987-88, BHEL progressed a step further in under taking
the production of AC locomotives, and subsequently it started manufacturing
AC/DC locomotives also.