About this stamp
Fifty Years of EIL
India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 27 March 2015 for the golden jubilee of Engineers India Limited (EIL). It was incorporated in New Delhi on 15 March 1965 as Engineers India Private Limited, under agreements of 1964 between the Government of India and Bechtel International Corporation, and became wholly government-owned in May 1967; it was listed after the government sold about 6 per cent of its shares in 1996.
Engineering for Oil and Gas
EIL is one of the leading design and engineering firms in South Asia, giving engineering consultancy and turnkey (EPC) services above all to the oil, gas and petrochemical industries, and also in infrastructure, water, solar and nuclear power and fertilisers. It has carried out more than 5,000 assignments, among them ONGC’s SHG platform, GAIL’s Jamnagar–Loni pipeline and HMEL’s Guru Gobind Singh Refinery, has developed more than 30 process technologies and works across the Middle East, Africa and South-East Asia. Its research centre is at Gurgaon, and it holds Navratna status.
The stamp was designed by Brahm Prakash; Security Printing Press, Hyderabad printed 0.65 million.
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