About this stamp
Fifty Years of BHEL
India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 16 November 2015 for the golden jubilee of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), India’s largest engineering and manufacturing enterprise of its kind. To meet the growing demand for power, the government had decided to set up three plants for heavy electrical equipment, at Tiruchirappalli for high-pressure boilers, at Hyderabad for steam turbo-generators, pumps and compressors, and at Haridwar for large turbo-generators, motors and hydro sets, alongside Heavy Electricals (India) Ltd at Bhopal. BHEL was formed on 13 November 1964 to run the three units, and the two companies were merged in January 1974.
Power Plants for India and the World
BHEL designs, builds, installs and services equipment for power, transmission, industry, railways, renewable energy, oil and gas and defence, with more than 180 products, from steam, gas and hydro turbines and boilers to locomotives, transformers and solar panels. It can make some 20,000 MW of power equipment a year, became a Maharatna in 2013, and has power plants in 76 countries.
The stamp was designed by Brahm Prakash; Security Printing Press, Hyderabad printed 0.6 million.
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