Technical- Business write-up

Problems of plenty BHEL recruited us with a slogan “Future is Bright”. Prime minister Indira Gandhi had declared an internal emergency in June 1975. While coming from Trichy town to BHEL township, a huge hoarding greeted us. It said “There is no substitute for hard work” As part of National integration, a large number of North Indian Trainees were posted to Trichy and South Indians posted in North India. After joining, we realised that our batch had the maximum number of Engineer Trainees across BHEL. Initially we were 180 divided in four batches as A to D, later to meet the government regulations on SC/ST quota additional ETs were recruited as E batch. In 1975, BHEL as an organisation had recruited 600 ETs. In 1976, 750 ETs followed by two batches in 1977. This means more than 2500 ETs in 3 years of emergency. This recruitment was not a well-planned activity, but more of appeasement to the wishes of government. The infrastructure was not planned for accommodating these execu...

Team Work After initial training, we were interviewed by MKS and allotted to different departments. I wanted to join the Production shops, but my not knowing Tamil language was quoted as a problem. MKS wanted me to join either Engineering or R&D which I was not interested in. The next alternative was to join Production Engineering and be close to production so I opted for the same. Myself, AKS, JM Ghosh and TVK were posted in the OP&C section of Production Engineering while PK Sinha was posted in the PP&C section. Mr Venkateswaran headed the Production Engineering department. Mr Guruswami headed OP&C Tubular Products. He was assisted by CR Sankaran and Avtar kishen Jafrani. Mr P. Ramakrishnan headed OP&C RM that included Material preparation bay, MSTR  and Training centre workshop in addition to Rotating machines and structure/ NPP.  S Balakrishnan was senior engineer attached to Mr P Ramakrishnan and he was responsible for plan preparations & distrib...