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Baswan to be Director IIPA ?

B S Baswan is likely to be appointed new Director of the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA) .He is retired 1967 batch IAS officer of Chhattisgarh cadre.

Rakesh Ranjan to succeed Pandey in Berlin
Rakesh Ranjan, presently PS to EAM, is going to replace Sudhanshu Pandey in Berlin as Director of India Cultural Centre. He is 1992 batch IAS officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre.

Brijeshwar Singh did not get extension
DG Akashvani, Brijeshwar Singh, did not get further extension in tenure. Will 1975 batch Tamil Nadu cadre IAS officer, Singh, return to the parent cadre?

Lalli takes charge of Brijeshwar Singh
Prasar Bharti CEO B S Lalli has taken chare of the DG Akashvani .

Iyer to be IT Ombudsman in Cochin
S K Iyer is being appointed Income-Tax Ombudsman in Bangalore. He is 1971 batch IRS officer.

Srivastava to be Member Appellate Tribunal
B K Srivastava is being tipped to be Member, Appellate Tribunal, (Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2005).1971 batch IRS officer, Srivastava, is presently Member of ATFP.

Hamid Ali Rao appointed Ambassador
Hamid Ali Rao, currently Joint Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, has been appointed as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the UN Conference on Disarmament, Geneva .He will succeed Jayant Prasad.

Subbarami Reddy's dinner tomorrow

Union Minister of State for Mines Dr T Subbarami Reddy is known for throwing parties. On Saturday he is hosting a dinner in Hotel Taj to welcome new Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar and to give farewell to outgoing Cabinet Secretary B K Chaturvedi. And special attention has been paid to invite senior officials of the key Economic Ministries and the NHAI.

Who is on top in Pakistan?
Not the women, for sure. During the last five years only one woman has been appointed to the highest grade of civil service. Most of the positions in the highest grade are held by the officers of Civil Service of Pakistan followed by the foreign service, scientists and other academics and the police. Presently, no income tax officer is at the highest level whereas their competitors in customs and excise service have four. While the total number of civil officers in the grade is around 130, as many as 1100 retired and serving army officers are in posts equivalent to this grade. Retired army officers hold posts as diverse as State Home Secretaries, CMDs, Vice Chancellors as also a host of non-descript positions.

Justice Yog to be Member of CAT
Justice Yog of the Allahabad High Court is being appointed Member of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT).

Why delay in promotion as CCIT ?
50 IRS officers belonging to1974&1975 batch are waiting for DPC for promotion to the of Chief Commissioner of Income-Tax for the last four months.

Don't ask for Moon, they advise
Civil servants are lobbying that their pay and perks must match what is available in the private sector. Those critical of the Civil Servants are scoffing at this preposterous demand. Those in IAS,IPS and other Central Services continue to live with the pre-independence mindset, always disdainful and condescending towards their junior collegues from subordinate services. Those in the private sector are just the reverse. They are great motivators ,inspiring team leaders and communicators par excellence says a wag, the bigwigs must first change their working ways before they ask for the moon that shines over the private sector.

Ms Anshu Vaish is DG ASI
Ms Anshu Vaish has been appointed new DG Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). She is 1975 batch IAS officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre.

For whom Amrinder Singh is lobbying ?
Former Punjab Chief Minister Amrinder Singh is reportedly lobbying hard for central deputation of his blue-eyed boy in the bureaucracy. Guess the name.

Sudhakar promoted as Additional Secretary
P D Sudhakar has been promoted to the rank of Additional Secretary in the Government of India. 1976 batch UP cadre IAS officer Sudhakar has been appointed Member-Secretary NCR (Planning).

Gujral is DGFT
R S Gujral has been appointed Director General Foreign Trade (DGFT). He is 1976 batch IAS officer of Haryana cadre.

Small Scale Industries Ministry name changes
The Government has merged the erstwhile Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries and formed a new Ministry, namely, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. A Notification of the Cabinet Secretariat has been issued to this effect.

Gupta to move Milan
Second Secretary M K Gupta has been moved to Milan in place of K N Ramachandran. Consul K N Ramachandran has been shifted to the MEA Head quarters.

Free Press to launch Bhopal edition
Leading English Newspaper Free Press is being launched from Bhopal next month.

Times of India to launch edition from Jaipur
The Times of India is launching edition from Jaipur shortly.

IPS reshuffle in Maharashtra
Over four dozen IPS officers have been reshuffled in Maharashtra.New Postings of some of the officers are :- Mssrs Arup Patnaik ADGP Traffic,Subhash Awate ADG Planning,Meeran Borwanker Police Commissioner Pune,Dhananjay Kamalkar DCP Pune,Satyapal Singh Police Commissioner Nagpur,Rakesh Maria JCP Crime Branch,K L Prasad JCP Law and Order,Hemant Karkare JCP Administration,Satish Mathur Jails,V R Kamble JCP Traffic,Bipin Bihari MSEB,D Kanakratnam Thane,Archana Tyagi Additional CP West Region,K Yankatesan Additional CP South Region,S P S Yadav CID Pune,Prabhat Kumar Additional CP Region,M K Karve Additional CP Administration,Pankaj Gupta ADG ANO ,S M Syyed Police Commissioner Nasik,K Ramachandran Special IG Reserve Police Force Nagpur,Ashok Dhiwre Kolhapur Range,S B Sawarkar Special IG Nagpur Range.

IAS reshuffle in Uttar Pradesh

There is major IAS reshuffle in Uttar Pradesh. New changes are :-Mssrs P V Jagan Mohan Divisional Commissioner Jhansi,Suresh Chandra Secretary,M P S Ramireddy Director Training.A K Singh Secretary Secondary Education,Yogesh Kumar Principal Secretary Secretariat Administration,Anil Kumar Gupta Principal Secretary Religious Trusts,Mohan Swarup Secretary Human Rights Commission,Kush Verma Principal Secretary Administrative Reforms Commission, B L Meena MD Power Distribution Company East Varanasi,Sudhir Garg MD Power Distribution Company Meerut,Rajesh Kumar Singh MD Land Reforms Corporation,Madhusudan Raizada Secretary Vigilance Department,Ashish Kumar Goyal DM Allahbad Additional charge Vice Chairman Allahabad Development Authority,DM Varanasi Ms Veena Meena Additional charge Vice Chairman Development Authority Varanasi,Mahavir Yadav Secretary Administrative Reforms,P K Dixit Secretary Languages,Rajiv Kumar Singh Secretary National Integration,Mohammad Mustafa Vice Chairman Kanpur Development Authority and Shankar Lal Pandey DM Fatehpur.

1981 batch IAS promoted in Bihar
Four 1981 batch IAS officers have been promoted to the rank of Principal Secretary in Bihar. They are Mssrs Anjani Kumar Singh,Vijay Prakash,N K Singh and C Lalsweta.

First Gudgaon Police Commissioner

Mohinder Lal has been appointed first Police Commissioner Gudgaon in Haryana. He is 1983 batch IPS officer.

Madurai Police Commissioner shifted
On the orders of the Election Commission Madurai Police Commissioner, A. Subramanian has been transferred '

IPS reshuffle in Haryana
Over two dozen IPS officers have been transferred in Haryana.

Pratibha Patil is PM's choice

UPA backed nominee for Presidential poll Mrs.Pratibha Patil is the choice of Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh who came up her name when there was a stiff resistance to Home Minister Shivraj Patil's candidacy from left. After refusal by Prakash Karat to back Shivraj Patil UPA chief Mrs.Sonia Gandhi had suggested that a woman incumbent could be UPA nominee. It was at that juncture that Dr.Manmohan Singh came up with Mrs.Patil's name. It was such a closely guarded secret that Congress party's political secretary Ahmad Patel was briefing media outside the PMO on Wednesday that Shivraj Patil's name had been almost cleared. As the grapevine has it even a press release regarding this was ready at the official level.

PM & Pratibha Patil are old friends

Indian Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh & UP's Presidential nominee Mrs.Pratibha Patil have known each for a pretty long time, particularly from the time Dr.Singh was in Mumbai as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India(RBI).

What happens if 3rd front backs the VP?

Though, UPA may have recommended Mrs.Pratibha Patil as the Presidential candidate, the Left has submitted a report to the UPA.The one page report is all about informing that if the third front backs Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat then 2nd preferential vote will decide fate of the new Indian President.

Who is Devi Singh Shekhawat?

Media & people seem to know a lot about Rajasthan Governor Mrs.Pratibha Patil's career, what they are unaware of is that her husband Devi Singh Shekhawat & she have done a commendable job on Education front.Devi Singh ji has been running a number of institutions for students belonging to poor families.Mrs.Patil & her husband have fought for Educational rights in even Courts. In fact a few years ago a case in the Maharashtra High Court was filed against a school being run by powerful person.However, the writ was later on withdrawn.

Urmila Singh to head Nation ST panel

Senior woman tribal Congress leader from Madhya Pradesh Mrs.Urmila Singh has been appointed Chairperson of the National Commission for Tribal Welfare.Mrs.Urmila Singh who is a member of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) was earlier a cabinet minister in MP & had also headed the MP Congress Committee (MPCC).

FORUM

No service is good or bad !

No service is good or bad ? Whether it is IAS/IPS/IFS/IRS…. or even IES / IFS (forest) etc. It is the culture of the social system which is driving these services.

If a person think that his son should get selected in IAS so that he can earn a good wealth ensuring a good dowry too, then naturally those ethics would propagate to his son. He will prove to be an immoral person whether he is selected in an All India services or state services or even go to private sector job.

However, the problem is that any fool proof competitive exam can not ensure that a person selected thru it would be a good administrator or specialist in any field. It the personal capabilities of the person which would be visible only when he is on job and that too for some years. In today's system, if a person who has cleared an exam but has worst personal qualities, then he would become a nuisance for general public for the rest of his career. The solution to this problem could be only a lateral selection system (lateral selection at all the levels) which has already been started in many countries.

The biggest merit of such system is, officers of all the service would have a fear of being kicked out if not performing well. They may also expect any new boss who is specialist in the field and has not been a part of the services before. Only this fear would improve the system.

Samir Chaturvedi

Muslim officers are sidelined

This is a live example of muslim appeasement by Congress. See Muslims officers in the government - they are in the sidelines and away from public dealing related postings. Congress can appease the BJP by such neglects.

Maqbool

Pl stop this kind of debate

I have been watching various debates your site has hosted on IAS vs other services. I feel that it produces nothing but some mirch masala for your readers. None of the participants of the debates can really decide on the fate of any service. It is just a matter of following a system where people get selected to the IAS with higher marks. Why grudge this when there are more chances left for those who have not got the IAS at one go to try their luck. If all human beings were identical, there would be no need for any competitive examinations. I think, this debate should be stopped from proceeding any further. I am sure this site will find many more interesting topics for debate which will be controversial enough to keep the interest of people alive.

Anita

All important posts are auctioned

K S Reddy wrote

Disband entire civil service

Disband entire civil service. The country will progress.
Sir, Your suggestion has already been accepted and implemented. All important posts are now auctioned.

P Kumar

CGHS system !

Honest, thorough professionals to man the CGHS system and severe punishment to those few that abuse the privileges, to the detriment of the entire community, is not only difficult but rather impossible and, therefore, cannot be done. If you ask lowly paid Government servants or middle level civilian officers, then their is the answer, suggested by Maj Gen Sidhu, for getting unanimous reply would be abolition of the system at the earliest. Since senior bureaucrats are always in a position to exert their influence, they are able to reap the benefit of their choice i.e. treatment at the renowned hospital of their choice and reimbursement of their claim. That is the basic reason why they want to continue with this dirty system. It is the lower rank that neither gets the treatment at designated Government hospital/dispensary nor their request for getting treatment at private hospitals is ever agreed to.

N Shashank

Best wishes for Ambani brothers

With my best wishes to both Mukesh Ambani and Anil Ambani and further request that the intelligence of both of them prevails with them with the best efforts of their respected mother, they again be together and the family can be the first and top in the world. With this, which may happen with our best wishes and efforts, our earnest wish will become true. People and the entire Corporate sector in the World wants to see them together. Then divide in the politics and bureaucracy too will not be there at all to see and feel. With my best wishes to both of them and hope for happy tomorrow.

Ram Kumar Garg

Exodus in Army- needs detailed response

This issue needs a detailed response, due seriousness of its consequences to national defence.
As DGR in 2004, under the MOD, I initiated Management Courses (very popular in the Defence Services today) to give military officers a fighting chance for employment in civil industry once they retired/left the Forces - the track record of getting employment outside before 2004 was abysmal, and even highly qualified officers were being offered only low-paid Administrative/Security posts. In discussions with Corporate honchos, CEOs/CII/ASSOCHAM/PHDCCI it was emphasised that they were missing out on the "golden goose", and it was sad to see such talent going waste. Management Institutes, like MDI Gurgaon, IIM Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Indore, NMIMS Mumbai, and others took up this challenge to provide inputs to this otherwise innately talented & disciplined segment of society - military officers -and weld management practices and military efficiency - and there, you have the formula of success! Many CEOs also heeded our call to employ these officers in critical posts, like operations, maintenance, finance, logistics, transport management and a whole variety of fields; today we have a win-win situation both for retiring officers and for industry.
Therefore, I am partly responsible for this exodus(not in the negative sense) by providing better opportunities & meaningful roles in the civil (out of uniform) domain.
I was fortunate to have a ringside view of events from a senior officers perspective, and to see exactly what ails the Army, and why officers are quitting this very proud & honourable service. To put it in one sentence - it is due to total absence of moral authority & leadership (particularly at the very top hierarchy), nepotism & favouritism in promotions (sadly on communal grounds), particularly in very senior appointments, promoting unqualified favourites, and failure to provide meaningful challenges to officers.

We had warned the senior military hierarchy that they would have to fight hard to retain talent/manpower, just like in the civil industry where retaining people is becoming increasingly difficult (except in those companies which provide effective leadership and challenges/stimulation to their employees), and that officers would quit in droves. Today even bright, and highly qualified, professional military officers are quitting because of the combination of factors - rot in the Defence Forces, slow & unpredictable promotions, and mediocrity & nepotism on the one hand, and on the other hand confidence in being able to prove themselves in the civil field as a consequence of the Management Courses, and their acceptability to CEOs.

The military hierarchy has not heeded these warnings, except to bring out wasteful ads in the media promising a blissful life - the bubble bursts when officers see the ground truth - so all of us should worry about the consequences to national security because, under the present environment, even talented officers will take the high road out of the Forces.

Maj Gen KS Sindhu

New website of Health Ministry

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, has created a website on healthy lifestyle. The website endeavors to advance consciousness of disease prevention opportunities, encourage earlier detection and treatment of diseases, and foster healthy living. Public Health Foundation of India has provided technical support to the MoHFW Government of India, for setting up a website on healthy living (www.healthy-india.org). The website provides information on Healthy Diet; Physical Activity; Tobacco and Alcohol related health problems; Environment; Yoga; Stress Management; High Blood Pressure; Diabetes; Cancers; Heart Attacks; Strokes. The website was launched on April 7th by Hon'ble Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. The website is now being introduced in schools (through M/HRD,Directorate of Education and school based NGOs). Promotional SMS have also been sent by mobile service providers Idea and Reliance to their subscribers. Search engine optimization is also being undertaken
The availablity of this website may kindly be widely disseminated to all your readers, with the request to send their inputs on further improvement of its contents etc

Dr Vinayak Prasad
Director
Ministry of Health & FW

Govt of India

Why not alternative system of CGHS ?

We read views from the proponents and opponents on the efficacy of CGHS. I have availed CGHS facility during my service tenure of 39 years and post retirement. The problems that I faced are those of lack of sincerity of the people manning the services. Thank GOD they don't write these days. I shall leave no stone unturned...the stones are still turned but where it benefits the incumbents be it CGHS or any other service. The irony is that to recommend abolition, of something or is not effective or not functioning in the best interest of the public, is easy. Why not suggest an alternative system which will not have the ills of CGHS and be effective for people across the classes of government employees.

S P Rastogi
Let the Police be policed by IPS officers ?

This is rubbish. India is a democratic country with rule of law in place. Let the police be policed by IPS officers assisting the law of the land. Otherwise why should we select IPS officers from civil services. Writing ACR's and other control of administration was the concept of imperialistic forces and it should never be allowed in democratic set up. India should move ahead by shedding such baggage and people with such thinking including officers or service altogether.

Rajiv

All services are good

I agree with comments of K Ratnaprabha that all services are good and it is actually individuals who matter a lot. It is a bad luck for our country that there are also people with the mindset of satwinder B who are so arrogant and non accommodating that they don't want even to listen or read a simple news posted on a website related to any issue that is not in their domain. I don't know how such people are even selected to Civil services. In fact these are the people who have brought bad name to the Civil Services and bureaucracy

Mukesh

Aaj Ki Aawaz

Left is livid with Congress…… on not being kept in the loop or know!!!
Left Congress relations hit a new low!!!

Left warns Maya's support is fickle,
Say in one hand she extends in dosti and in the other hand she holds a sickle!!

UPA is desperate to get Left aka Betaal of its back,
Relationship has begun to crack!!

Upset on being marginalized Commies have been crying on shoulders of UPA Allies!!
And all that Commies are getting from Allies are nautanki sighs!!

All seem to realize that Commies have overrated their importance,
In fact some even say that Commies are nothing but a nuisance!!!

DMK too is going to side with Congress….. seems deal has been sealed!!
To side with UPA to the Commies Karuna appealed!!

Congress seems to be fixated on Patil….. seems to be the ideal pawn for the job!!!
Though time and again two other names do bob!!

The need is for a strong President and not a strong candidate…. wrong kind of strong!!!
And majority of Indians do feel that choice of Patil is wrong.

But then We The People don't have a say,
Hope better sense prevails and the right person is chosen who in Rashtrapathi Bhavan will stay!!

And when such uncertainty is there betting markets boom ….Patil's and Shinde's odds are even!!!
So if you bet on either and win you'll be even-steven!!

Congress wants a Gandhi loyalist, Maya a Brahmin and Commies would like a Bengali!!
Akin to 'Ek phool and teen maali'!!!

Was Praful Patel sleeping in the cockpit????
He had info of an impending strike but chose to just sit!!!

Praful Patel has also tried to stub low cost Airlines!!!
If he'd have had his way to undercut on fares there would have been fines!!!

He's trying to ensure that the Indian Airline Industry runs on Mallya's model or way!!
Through their noses travellers must pay!!

All over the World Budget Airlines are flying!!!
And in India Patel wants these Airlines to stop plying!!!

And he's Pawar's protégé…… acted on the strike like his idol and just kept mum!!!
Pawar's way of handling such matters…… just sit quite and favourite tune karro hum!!

Pawar had promised that he'd make BCCI professional and see what he's done,
In any avenue of the game has there been any improvement …. answer is none???

Even in his Ministerial job he's come out as a total flop!!!
Had there been no coalition compulsions kabb ka Cabinet se ho jaatha chop!!!

Here's hoping that Patel does not get a Ministry like Telecom,
Higher Tariffs he'll tom-tom!!!

And nowadays strikes are very common,
In NDA's days strikes were uncommon!!!

With Commies holding one arm of this Sarkaar Trade Unions have becomes very aggressive,
To the Industry 'The Force is with us' is their missive!!

In Mumbai too BEST strike is looming…. strike at will!!!
In UPA's rule on strikes we've had our fill!!!

BIS Chahal could be a model for a cornflakes brand….USP tenacity of a cornflakes khaane waala!!
Will demand his morning cornflakes even if jail mein usko daala!!

Chahal nowadays has at least one case filed against him everyday!!!
For his past deeds he's being made to pay!!!

Badal adopted the ' three monkey' approach to the Dera problem…saw, heard and said nothing,
Whereas Punjabis kept hoping that he'd do something!!!

And why did Badal request the Brit High Commissioner that UK should send English teachers!!
Has he been inflicted by Pawar's Gora bug…… UK will be more than happy to send Preachers!!!

As it is all over India Preachers in the garb of Teachers are on the job!!
From all religions followers karr rahe hai rob!!!

In HP Virbhadra is trying Vastu to get lucky ……. CM's Office is now Vastu compliant!!!
But Vastu is not going to work on electorate which remains defiant!!

Shirk form delivering and then think Vastu will get you back in favour???
Fact is in HP Congress is no longer the flavour!!!

Should the Sarkaar become a Property Dealer???
In Chandigarh Farmers say Sarkaar has not only become a Property Dealer but also Property stealer!!

Administration has acquired land at a pittance and sold land to a Developer at 100 times the cost!!!
And Roddy the Administrator seems to be abs lost!!!

Administration could have easily set a conversion rate and let Developer buy land directly!!!
Why has Administration done this indirectly???

Georgie Porgie shook hands with the Public and then let out a cry…. where's my watch????
Someone took the watch off Bush's hands as his security karr rahi thi watch!!!

In all probability Bush will file a claim,
Watch was lost on the job he'll claim!!!

But this shows that US's Secret Service cannot detect pickpockets and watch pickers!!
Bush's watch has caught them sleeping…..akin to being caught without their knickers!!!

Bush has a year to go but Americans are already celebrating his Office demission,
Americans say that he's put US's stature into remission!!!

Flash: As Congress promised it's a Patil whose UPA's nominee for the President's post,
Surprise choice because her name was not even on the coast!!!!

Majority had been wagering on Patil or Shinde.... sabh ho gaye saaf!!!
I'm sure Sonia and Maya are having a good laugh!!!

Bharat Kumar
Aaj_ki_aawaz@yahoo.com

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Director Coal India interview next week
PESB will hold interview for the post of Director Personnel of the WCL,NCL and ECL next week.

FDI defence sector on the anvil
The Commerce Ministry has proposed to revise Foreign Direct Investment(FDI)for automatic route of approval in Defence sector. This includes defence production companies like Bharat Electricals Ltd (BEL),Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd(HAL) & Atomic Energy Corporation. This would also open up FDI in nuclear power plants of India.

MEA's red flag for NRIs in Nigeria
With a spate of kidnappings of Indian engineers in Nigeria located unit of Indo Rama the Indian Ministry of External Affairs(MEA) has raised a red flag for experts engineers taking up jobs in Nigeria based refineries. It may be mentioned here that OVL had recently invested $ One billion to buy an oilfield in Nigeria.

BHEL gets award

Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BHEL) has been awarded the "Business Standard Star Public Sector Company Award-2006". Ashok. K. Puri, Chairman & Managing Director , BHEL, received the award from Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission at a function held at Delhi on 12th June(Late evening ). Amongst all the PSUs in the country, BHEL has been bestowed this prestigious award for its exceptional high-growth performance with across-the-board gains on all parameters in its areas of operation.
Continuing on its high growth path, BHEL doubled its turnover in 3 years and profit in 2 years time. In 2006-07 year, BHEL achieved a record turnover of Rs.18,739 Crore, an impressive growth of more than 29% over the previous year. Net Profit (PAT) soared by 44% to Rs.2,415 Crore.
The Company has unveiled a Strategic Plan 2012 that will enable it achieve a turnover of US$ 10 Billion by 2011-12 i.e. two and half times its present turnover of US$ 4 Billion.
BHEL is taking long strides to become a major global player by enhancing its presence in international markets and it has identified overseas business as one of its future thrust areas. BHEL is India's largest Power Project exporter from India. Over the years, BHEL has established its footprints in all the six inhabited continents of the world, spanning 68 countries.
The company has taken steps for upgradation/introduction of new technologies. It has tied-up to acquire new technology to produce thermal power Equipment with Super Critical parameters for next higher rating of 800 MW and above.
BHEL was set up with a mandate to make the country self-reliant in the manufacture of power plant equipment. Today, the company's generating equipment ( Thermal, Hydro, Nuclear & Gas ) forms the backbone of the Indian energy Sector. Notably, BHEL sets generate 73% of the total power produced in the country while accounting for 65% of India's installed generating capacity of over 1,25,000 MW ( as on 31/3/2007).
The company has also reaffirmed its commitment to the Indian Power Sector by equipping itself for the future, by way of technology, facilities and trained manpower to meet the country's power forecast for the XI Plan and beyond. BHEL has embarked upon a very ambitious plan of enhancing its manufacturing capacity to 15,000 MW per annum with a total investment of around Rs 3,200 crore for the 11th Plan.