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BHEL or Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited is a gas and steam turbine manufacturer in India. It is one of India's nine largest Public Sector Undertakings or PSUs, known as the Navratnas or 'the nine jewels' [1].
Founded in the late 1950s, BHEL is today a key player in the power sector through the construction, commissioning and servicing of power plants all over the world. BHEL has around 14 manufacturing divisions, four power sector regional centres, over 100 project sites, eight service centres and 18 regional offices [2].
As an engineering conglomerate, BHEL offers over a wide spectrum of products and services for core sectors including power generation, transmission and distribution; transportation; and oil and gas. as well as the supply of non-conventional energy systems.
Over 65 percent of power generated in India comes from BHEL-supplied equipment. Overall it has installed power equipment with a total capacity of over 90,000 MW.[3] [4] The present chairman (as of April 2008) of BHEL is Mr. K.Ravikumar.
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