Trichy Region Projects thread

[Trichy_Arun]

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper...cle2464416.ece

The Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited (BHEL) here has cleared the decks to begin the process of installing its proposed two-MW solar power plant during the next financial year on an outlay of Rs. 17 to 18 crore.

It has identified the location on its premises for the plant and is awaiting formal clearance from its corporate office.

The space opposite the Unit II would be utilised for establishing the plant, A. V. Krishnan, Executive Director, BHEL, Tiruchi Complex, said.

Once the proposal was formally cleared, it would place orders for solar panels with the company's electronics division base in Bangalore. The Tiruchi facility would manufacture heat exchangers for the solar plant.

The BHEL had an understanding with Abengoa of Spain for technology transfer for solar power generation.

The idea behind going in for two MW plan was to draw subsidy from the scheme announced by the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Mr. Krishnan said.

Incentives

As per the scheme, the MNRE would provide generation based incentives at the rate of Rs. 12 per unit for solar photovoltaic plant and Rs. 10 per unit for the solar thermal power plant.

The Ministry had assured to provide incentives for installation of up to 10 MW capacity solar power plants.

Power generated from the solar plant would be transferred to the grid and taken back by BHEL, Tiruchi, to meet about 50 per cent of its requirement.

The Tiruchi complex consumed 3.8 MW power, Mr. Krishnan said, adding that the rest was procured through the commercial route.

[Trichy_Arun]

Cross posting from other thread - thanks TShyam

http://in.news.yahoo.com/windfall-ta...092230862.html

It is boom time for Tamil Nadu-based power equipment manufacturers as they have bagged orders worth a whopping Rs.17,120 crore ($3.6 billion) for boilers, steam turbines and generators in one stroke from power generation major NTPC.

The total value of equipment that was tendered out by NTPC is around Rs.18,720 crore. While the lion's share has gone to Tamil Nadu firms, the rest has been bagged by the BHEL unit in Haridwar.

And some more mega orders are expected once the Supreme Court resolves a case involving NTPC's another mega tender -- 11 units of boilers, steam turbines and generators of 660 MW capacity.

'Tamil Nadu is not only an auto hub, it is also the hub for heavy precision engineering,' Itaru Ishibashi, managing director of Toshiba JSW Turbine and Generator Pvt. Ltd., told IANS.

'It is boom time especially for boiler vendors as this is one bulk order,' said A.V. Krishnan, executive director at Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) and heading the company's boiler plant at Tiruchirapalli, around 320 km from here.

One of Asia's largest power generating firms, NTPC recently opened the price bids for its 9x800 MW tender for supercritical boilers, turbines and generators.

Chennai-based BGR Energy Systems Ltd Thursday announced that its bid price is the lowest for the turbines and generators and would get an order worth around Rs.3,600 crore.

As per NTPC's tender condition, the lowest bidder will get an order to supply five units and the balance four will be divided equally between BHEL and the second lowest bidder. However, both BHEL and the second lowest bidder have to match BGR Energy's rate.

Ishibashi told IANS: 'Toshiba JSW is the second lowest bidder and we will get a minimum of two units. However, we are waiting for official communication from NTPC.'

South Korean giant Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction Company, having a boiler plant on the outskirts of Chennai, will supply five out of the nine 800 MW supercritical boilers (order value around Rs.6,400 crore).

BHEL will supply the balance four boilers valued at around Rs.5,120 crore out of its plant in Tiruchirapalli.

However, it is going to be a challenging time for the companies as they have to find human resources and overcome the infrastructural bottlenecks, industry players say.

'Developing vendors for the fabrication job for boilers and human resource is going to be a major challenge for the winning bidders. Fabricating supercritical boilers is not easy,' A. Manjunath, power sector consultant and former managing director of Ansaldo Caldaie Boilers India, told IANS.

Agreeing with him, BHEL's Krishnan said: 'The need for manpower will surely go up. Further, vendors are loaded with jobs. And boiler structural jobs may be distributed to several units spread across the country.'

But Toshiba JSW's Ishibashi does not feel there will be any immediate pressure on his company on the human resources front even though BGR Energy is setting up a turbine, generator and boiler plant in partnership with Japanese company Hitachi near Madurantakam, around 80 km from here.

'Human resources will be a challenge as our talent is not easy to get. Our product demands precision fabrication which needs skill. We spend lot of time on training our workers,' Ishibashi said.

According to him, physical infrastructure like roads, bridges while transporting the heavy turbine and generators is another challenge that has to be addressed by the state government.

'While turbines can be dismantled and transported by road, the same cannot be done in respect of generators that weigh around 450 tonnes. If you take into account the weight of a special trailer to carry the generator, then the bridges and roads should be able to take a load of around 500 tonnes,' Ishibashi said.

[ajnath]

BHEL sceptic about BHELSIA's second-hand captive plant

‘Spares for equipment cannot be obtained from within India'

With the long-term objective of scaling up operations and output, the BHEL Small Industries' Association has initiated the process of establishing a captive power plant with an installed capacity of 12 MW to 16 MW.

The industry association, keen on setting a precedent, is looking for support from the State government for establishing its own plant with second-hand equipment from Korea or China. The association has floated a company for the purpose. Its president Rajappa Rajkumar believes that the capital expenditure on the plant could be brought down to 40 per cent of the actual cost.

However, the BHEL, which has promised technical support and expressed readiness to purchase surplus power from BHELSIA, is not comfortable with the latter's idea to go in for second-hand equipment for the captive plant.

“Where will they go for spares in case a need arises? Spares for second-hand imported equipment cannot be obtained from within India,” the Executive Director of BHEL, Tiruchi, A.V. Krishnan, cautioned, emphasising that rather than looking at investment cost, the BHELSIA must think of the life of the captive plant for 15 to 20 years.

The BHEL had offered to design a 25 MW power plant that could be manufactured with the capacities and expertise available with the ancillary industries.

In doing so, the BHELSIA will be able to rely on BHEL for drawings of spare parts in case of need, Mr. Krishnan said, opining that the plant will be sustainable only if the BHELSIA decides on having air cool towers and dry type transformers.

The captive plant must be located close to the grid, he said.

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper...cle2466595.ece

[MR.TRICHY]

DUBAI: Indian property developers called upon potential buyers in Doha to take advantage of recessionary trends in the global economy and make investments in the real estate sector of growing economies like India.

The two-day Indus Property Exhibition 2011 was held in the city recently, where Indian real estate developers showcased their properties.

In a joint statement issued on the occasion, the participating companies said that "with India beginning to resurface itself as a formidable economic system, backed by strong foreign exchange reserves, healthy GDP growth rates and expanding foreign direct investment, conditions are ideal to buy properties in the country's major cities".

The Indian real estate market, they said, continued to be on the upswing and for NRIs, it was the right time to invest in properties back home. They pointed out the entry of a number of international real estate houses in India showed foreign investors' increasing confidence in the Indian market.

They noted that 100 per cent FDI was allowed in India's real estate sector. The companies showcased apartments, independent houses, bungalows, luxury and premium villas, farm houses, commercial properties, beach resorts and plots.

More than 100 properties from New Delhi, the National Capital Region, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Nelloor, Chennai, Coimbatore, Bangalore, Tiruchirapalli, Ooty, Hosur, Gurgaon and similar locations were showcased at the exhibition.

The exhibition was jointly organised by Apex Business Solutions and Indus Events and Exhibitions

source/TP

[deepu051993]

A 'dead' man "came back to life" thanks to his brother, who noticed his leg move as he was being loaded on to a waiting ambulance in the early hours of Monday.

According to family sources, arrangements had been made to perform the last rites for Mohandas (31), and relatives had been intimated about the sad news. An order for printing 1,000 obituary notices had been placed, when the family members were unexpectedly overwhelmed by his "resurrection". The road accident victim was presumed dead, despite a quarrel over his medical status. While relatives of the patient suspected that the hospital authorities were misleading them with wrong medical reports, that he had to be on ventilator support to keep him alive, the doctors allegedly refused to hand over the person's body insisting he would die if he were to be removed off the ventilator. The bone of contention was the escalating medical expenses, and the uncertainty over whether the patient would survive even after "spending a fortune" by keeping him on ventilator support.

Mohandas met with a road accident last Thursday and was immediately rushed to Trichy's KMC hospital., where, incidentally, his sister-in-law Sangeetha is a technician in the operation theatre. The unconscious patient suffered head injuries and was placed on ventilator support in order to revive his lungs. As precious time was running out, and since no credible information on his condition was forth coming, his relatives, who are Sri Lankan refugees currently living in the Kottapattu rehabilitation camp, were highly agitated. The hospital authorities insisted that he needed to be on ventilator support for unspecified days. As tension was running high, the relatives thought the hospital authorities were taking them for a ride. A KMC spokesman told TOI that the doctors clearly told them the patient would instantly die if he was taken off the ventilator, a theory the family members of Mohandas refused to accept.

Finally, the hospital authorities advised against discharging the patient and insisted that if they did, it would be against medical advice. Infuriated, the relatives forcefully removed Mohandas around 3 am on Monday, said a spokesperson. The father of Mohandas, S Thanneri, however, had a different story to tell. According to him, his son never "died", and this was proved by the fact that now the doctors at Annal Gandhi Government Hospital, where Mohandas was finally admitted, said he was very much alive. "When we demanded that the KMC authorities hand over our son to us, the doctors tied my son from neck to ankle in white loincloth the way it is done with dead bodies," Thanneri told TOI. "We took my son to another private hospital, which refused admission citing lack of medical infrastructure. Then we finally admitted him to the Tiruchirappalli government hospital. Today is the happiest day in my life. What happened at KMC should never befall any one," a sad father said.

[satishanu]

Pl. avoid posting non developmental/ non projects stuff.

[bajk]

Originally Posted by deepu051993

A 'dead' man "came back to life" thanks to his brother, who noticed his leg move as he was being loaded on to a waiting ambulance in the early hours of Monday.

Please do not post these type of news here. Lets stick to least some kind of development related stuff.

[Trichy_Arun]

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper...cle2469212.ece

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, Tiruchi Complex, is poised to fulfil its output target for the second quarter in this fiscal.

“As planned, the complex will be reaching the 35 per cent mark by September. In the first quarter, the complex completed 18 per cent of the production target. The output (in first quarter) was 15 per cent more over last year,” the Executive Director of BHEL, Tiruchi, A.V. Krishnan, said. By the end of third quarter the complex would have completed 60 per cent of the target.

BHEL, Mr. Krishnan said, has been reminding BHELSIA about its target. Though BHEL was willing to set apart three lakh tonnes for the association for this fiscal, it has committed to complete 2.5 lakh tonnes. The association has so far delivered close to 54,000 tonnes, and will have to necessarily double production in the last two quarters. “Unless they gear up, it will be difficult.”

At the start of the fiscal, BHELSIA was expected to deliver equated quarterly targets. But, as things stand, it would be able to deliver about 62,000 tonnes by September end. BHELSIA had last year completed 2.17 lakh tonnes, which was lesser by about 15,000 tonnes over previous year. The fall in production was mainly due to power shortage and scarcity of labourers. The power situation has eased to some extent now, and BHELSIA has been asked to take constructive steps to retain and invigorate their labour force. “We have been asking them to go out of the way and do something (to attract manpower),” Mr. Krishnan said. There are some positive indications though. Ten among the over 300 sub-contractors are in a state of readiness to expand output by fabricating components with own materials. BHEL has facilitated them with finance linkages to banks and material linkage with SAIL.

On their part, Away Centre Fabricators have been making their presence increasingly felt. Their number has increased from 40 last year to 52 this year. Eleven more will be added shortly, and by the end of this fiscal, their number would have grown to 75, Mr. Krishnan said.

BHEL has been identifying away centre fabricators closer to steel plants and erection sites for easy procurement of raw materials and delivery of components, he said.

[Trichy_Arun]

When Away fabrication centres are increasing day by day, why the fabricating industries in trichy is not increasing in number? I mean why new industries are not getting launched in trichy?

We may need to encourage industrialists from coimbatore, chennai, bangalore etc to start engineering industries here in trichy which for sure will get huge orders from bhel.

[PEBBLE]

Originally Posted by Trichy_Arun

When Away fabrication centres are increasing day by day, why the fabricating industries in trichy is not increasing in number? I mean why new industries are not getting launched in trichy?

We may need to encourage industrialists from coimbatore, chennai, bangalore etc to start engineering industries here in trichy which for sure will get huge orders from bhel.

actually, a lot of companies are getting into AWAY CENTER FABRICATION(ACF) method in trichy. already, there are 5 companies doing under ACF method and this financial year, few more will join. ACF will be the future for BHEL.

[deepu051993]

Originally Posted by bajk

Please do not post these type of news here. Lets stick to least some kind of development related stuff.

sorry guys hereafted i would post articles for healthy discussions and development basis.

[Trichy_Arun]

Originally Posted by PEBBLE

actually, a lot of companies are getting into AWAY CENTER FABRICATION(ACF) method in trichy. already, there are 5 companies doing under ACF method and this financial year, few more will join. ACF will be the future for BHEL.

But that will make trichy companies to set up industries away from trichy ... high time that trichy companies expand their operations and also need to overcome power and man power shortage...

[bajk]

Originally Posted by Trichy_Arun

But that will make trichy companies to set up industries away from trichy ... high time that trichy companies expand their operations and also need to overcome power and man power shortage...

Not Really. I guess BHEL is trying to achieve two things from ACF model.

BHEL to exit procurement of raw materials and wanted Trichy units to do themselves for fabrications work. Secondly BHEL is looking for units near sites for logistics reasons.

[mugunthsboa]

Originally Posted by bajk

Setting the ball rolling for the local body polls due next month in Tamil Nadu, AIADMK chief J. Jayalalithaa on Friday announced the party’s Mayoral candidates for 10 Corporations in the State, fielding six women in the fray.

In a statement, she announced the candidates, nominating S. Duraisamy for Chennai Corporation.

He had lost against DMK Treasurer and former Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin in the closely fought April 13 Assembly polls.

Mr. Duraisamy had already challenged Mr. Stalin’s election in the court.

The other candidates are B. Karthiyayini (Vellore), S. Savundappan (Salem), Mallika Paramasivam (Erode), A. Visalakshi (Tirupur), S.M. Velusamy (Coimbatore), M.S.R. Jaya (Tiruchirappally), V.V. Rajan Chellappa (Madurai), Vigila Sathyanand (Tirunelveli) and L. Sasikala Pushpa (Tuticorin).

http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/...cle2459156.ece

I have failed to understand what is the role of the Mayor in a corporation.Do anybody here know?

[deepu051993]

Electoral rolls of local bodies released



The electoral rolls of the local bodies in Tiruchi were released here on Tuesday showing a total voters strength of 17.78 lakhs in the district.

The voters strength were based on the rolls used for the recent Assembly elections. The total electorate of 17,78,275 comprised 8,87,386 men, 8,90,834 women and 56 transgenders.

Of this, the 14 panchayat unions in the district had a total voters strength of 9,70,902 comprising 4,86,220 men, 4,84,665 women and 17 transgenders. The 16 town panchayats in the district had 1,52,098 voters including 75,460 men, 76,635 women and three transgenders.

The three municipalities in the district had an electorate of 70,584 comprising 35322 men and 35,262 women. The Tiruchi Corporation had 5,84,691 voters including 2,90,383 men, 2,94,272 women and 36 transgenders.

Collector Jayashree Muralidharan released the electoral rolls and handed over copies of the same to M.Santhosh Kumar, Project Director, District Rural Development Agency, here.

According to officials, the voters lists have been kept for public view at all local bodies for voters to verify.

Applications for additions and deletions to the electoral rolls would be accepted till the last date for filing of nominations for the local body elections.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/...cle2470614.ece

[ajnath]

Originally Posted by deepu051993

Electoral rolls of local bodies released


The three municipalities in the district had an electorate of 70,584 comprising 35322 men and 35,262 women. The Tiruchi Corporation had 5,84,691 voters including 2,90,383 men, 2,94,272 women and 36 transgenders.

IMO, Trichy corporation voter strength declared seems very much less than actual strength. I think in 2006 corporation election also almost same voter strength was there, and if we add increase in population and expanded area of corporation the present stregth looks very less.

[kg4129]

Originally Posted by Trichy_Arun

When Away fabrication centres are increasing day by day, why the fabricating industries in trichy is not increasing in number? I mean why new industries are not getting launched in trichy?

We may need to encourage industrialists from Coimbatore, Chennai, Bangalore etc to start engineering industries here in trichy which for sure will get huge orders from bhel.

There are lot's companies start their production every year in trichy but most of them opting out of BHEL.

For example,there is one company called REBO Industries Pvt Ltd started business a year back. Engineering office (Design and drafting) located near head post office about 50 to 75 engineers (BE and DME) are working over there and Fabrication shop located in Mathur and having man power close to 200 including contract workers.

They are not taking orders from BHEL but from Thermax(Pune), Ansoldo etc... they are mostly concentrating on pressure parts not in Structural part.

[bajk]

The Madras High Court on Wednesday quashed orders of the State government, including one of September last year, relating to the merger of Tiruverumbur Town Panchayat with Tiruchirapalli City Municipal Corporation.

In his order on a writ petition challenging the merger, Justice N. Kirubakaran said that when the matter involved a major decision of merging the town panchayat with the municipal corporation, the authorities should have been careful enough to see that statutory requirements were complied with.

Petitioner P. Balachandar, a resident of Tiruverumbur (Tiruchirapalli district), said if Tiruverumbur was merged with the corporation, the town panchayat would lose its identity. It would be deprived of several beneficial schemes. It would also affect agricultural operations.

He contended that the town panchayat's resolution and the local public's opposition to the merger were ignored. No opportunity was given for the objections to be explained.

Advocate-General A. Navaneethakrishnan said that the government started the process of extending the Tiruchirapalli corporation limits in 2007.

Though the town panchayat adopted a resolution against the merger on August 30, 2010, the District Collector, in his report on September 7 last year, had recommended the inclusion of the town panchayat in Tiruchi Corporation.

Allowing the petition, Mr. Justice Kirubakaran said that admittedly, no newspaper publication of the notification relating to the merger was made. The general public should know about the notification. Otherwise, it was not possible for them to raise any objection. The notification without publication in newspapers was invalid.

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper...cle2474847.ece

[kg4129]

An e-procurement portal of the Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited was launched by A.V.Krishnan, Executive Director, BHEL, Tiruchi, here on Wednesday.

The portal was developed under the digitisation process of the enterprise procurement system (EPS) of the public-sector major.

As part of the strategy, BHEL has decided to ‘Go Live' with six of its plants located at Tiruchi, Bangalore, Ranipet, Noida and Haridwar by end of this year. The first phase of the conversion is to be carried out at BHEL, Tiruchi.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr.Krishnan said e-procurement was the need of the hour, paving the way for paperless and prompt procurement which would help in cycle time reduction.

The portal, he said, would revolutionise the procurement process and bring transparency in business operations.

Task force

BHEL, Tiruchi, had formed a special task force for implementing the project which was unique in nature, given the diverse products procured by BHEL.

EPS is now considered an integral component of smart procurement strategies which reduce complexities and transactional load requirements.

The potential of smart procurement solutions, implementation of modules of e-procurement such as e-tendering, e-auctions and contract management are on rise.


K.Mohan, Additional General Manager, Enterprises Resource Planning, explained the importance of the process and urged all departments to get prepared.

Source

[bajk]

Originally Posted by bajk

The Madras High Court on Wednesday quashed orders of the State government, including one of September last year, relating to the merger of Tiruverumbur Town Panchayat with Tiruchirapalli City Municipal Corporation.


Allowing the petition, Mr. Justice Kirubakaran said that admittedly, no newspaper publication of the notification relating to the merger was made. The general public should know about the notification. Otherwise, it was not possible for them to raise any objection. The notification without publication in newspapers was invalid.

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper...cle2474847.ece

Hope Govt appeals against the order and follows the process to merge the Tiruverambur town with Trichy corporation.

I guess Trichy corporation is not included in the local bodies election to be held on October 17 and 19.