By the time I reached Bhopal, I was naturally more impatient than ever to get to my destination. But the 11 hour long journey had compelled me to call it a day. So I had to wait for a whole night before I could get to the bottom of things.
The next day, I started early for the township as it was 7 km. away from the hotel where I was staying. And this time, my guide was Aslam, an auto-rickshaw driver who have been faring passengers from the Bhopal city to the BHEL township for the last 20 years. He affirmed Bora’s observations as we entered the township. I could clearly see houses of employees, who had retired over the last few years, left abandoned or being demolished; particularly in areas like Kalibari, Govindpura, Security Line, Vijay Nagar, et al. Even in other parts of the township, the management doesn’t seems to be paying heed to the regular repair and maintenance work – whether it’s the roads or the employee quarters. Aslam told me that quite a few employees had made their own houses outside. Satellite colonies like Indrapuri, Bharat Nagar, Sonagiri and Saket were mushrooming around the township over the last few years (earlier, there were about 22,000 employees staying in 12,500 quarters inside this township, today the number has drastically reduced by almost 25-30%). “Everyone wants to own a house when he or she retires. And with easy availability of loan along with HRA facility from the company, if we are getting that chance, then what’s the harm,” reasoned an employee of BHEL Bhopal who had just moved into his own house at Sonagiri, a satellite colony near the township.
A senior employee, who had been with BHEL Bhopal for the last 34 years, cleared the air. “TRT quarters, as we call them, are being demolished because BHEL, in association with Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) and Alstom (the global leader in equipment and services for power generation), is contemplating another plant at its Bhopal unit, which will fabricate nuclear turbines.” The plan is to manufacture high rating (starting from 660 MW to 1,000 MW) turbine-generator sets. In fact, the unit has already received its first ever order for providing steam generators for 700 MW nuclear sets. The company has also tied-up with GE-Hitachi for making nuclear reactors and is said to be in talks with other foreign players such as Westinghouse, Areva and Toshiba for supply.
The next day, I started early for the township as it was 7 km. away from the hotel where I was staying. And this time, my guide was Aslam, an auto-rickshaw driver who have been faring passengers from the Bhopal city to the BHEL township for the last 20 years. He affirmed Bora’s observations as we entered the township. I could clearly see houses of employees, who had retired over the last few years, left abandoned or being demolished; particularly in areas like Kalibari, Govindpura, Security Line, Vijay Nagar, et al. Even in other parts of the township, the management doesn’t seems to be paying heed to the regular repair and maintenance work – whether it’s the roads or the employee quarters. Aslam told me that quite a few employees had made their own houses outside. Satellite colonies like Indrapuri, Bharat Nagar, Sonagiri and Saket were mushrooming around the township over the last few years (earlier, there were about 22,000 employees staying in 12,500 quarters inside this township, today the number has drastically reduced by almost 25-30%). “Everyone wants to own a house when he or she retires. And with easy availability of loan along with HRA facility from the company, if we are getting that chance, then what’s the harm,” reasoned an employee of BHEL Bhopal who had just moved into his own house at Sonagiri, a satellite colony near the township.
A senior employee, who had been with BHEL Bhopal for the last 34 years, cleared the air. “TRT quarters, as we call them, are being demolished because BHEL, in association with Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) and Alstom (the global leader in equipment and services for power generation), is contemplating another plant at its Bhopal unit, which will fabricate nuclear turbines.” The plan is to manufacture high rating (starting from 660 MW to 1,000 MW) turbine-generator sets. In fact, the unit has already received its first ever order for providing steam generators for 700 MW nuclear sets. The company has also tied-up with GE-Hitachi for making nuclear reactors and is said to be in talks with other foreign players such as Westinghouse, Areva and Toshiba for supply.
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