Trichy’s BHEL Vendor Base Falls From 548 Units to Under 100: BRAMAS
Tiruchirappalli’s ancillary manufacturing base for Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has shrunk from 548 registered units to barely 100 that are still operational, according to Senthil Kumar P., President of BRAMAS, the association representing these vendors.
He attributes the decline to a pan-India tender policy that ignores the region’s distance from both raw material sources and end markets, chronic delivery delays from the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), and a late delivery penalty system he says punishes vendors regardless of where the fault lies.
Steel for these units typically comes from Bhilai, Rourkela and Raigarh in Central and Eastern India. The finished job, painted, machined and ready for a power plant boiler, mostly travels back the same way, since most of BHEL’s end customers are power plants in the Western, Eastern and Northern regions. Tiruchirappalli sits roughly 2,000 to 2,500 kilometres from both ends of that journey, a...
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