BHEL Bags Rs 380-cr Order for Rajasthan Gas Plant

State-owned BHEL has won an order worth Rs 380 crore from Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd (RRVUNL) for setting up a 160MW gas-based plant in Rajasthan.

BHEL has secured a contract for setting up a 160 MW Combined Cycle Power Plant (CCPP) in Rajasthan from RRVUNL, the company said.

The Rs 380 crore contract is the expansion project (Stage IV) of Ramgarh power plant in Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan. BHEL's scope of work envisages design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning of the Main Plant and providing equipment for the Gas-based power project.

The equipment for the project will be supplied by BHEL's Hyderabad, Trichy and Bangalore plants, while the company's power sector Northern Region will undertake erection and commissioning of the equipment.

Meanwhile, Industrial Systems Group (ISG), a unit of BHEL received an order worth Rs 312 crore from state-run NTPC for coal handling plant package for the Meja thermal power project in Uttar Pradesh.

The order includes mechanical, civil, structural and electrics and all related auxiliary facilities.

BHEL-ISG specializes in system integration of bulk material handling like coal and ash handling systems for thermal power plants, raw material handling for industry.