Bhel to hire 25,000 in 5 years

In one of the most aggressive recruitment plan in the public sector, state-run power equipment maker Bhel will hire 25,000 people over the next five years to take its total headcount to 55,000, a top company executive said on Sunday. "We have already hired 15,000 people in the past four years and we aim to recruit 5,000 people every year for the next five years," CMD Bhel B P Rao said.

The 5,000 new recruitment would comprise 1,000 engineers, 1,000 diploma holder and 2,000 ITI ( Industrial Training Institute )) graduates, among others, he said. Bhel, which is engaged in building power plant equipments, is in process to ramp up the manufacturing capacity to 20,000 MW by March 2012 from the current 15,000 MW and therefore requires manpower to achieve the target. Asked about the attrition rate in the PSU, Rao said Bhel has been least affected by the trend as not many people have exited the PSU for private companies. "..infact people who had left Bhel some years ago, they have come back to us." The equipment maker currently has a manpower of 46,000 and it plans to take it to about 55,000 in the next five years as 2,500 people are expected to retire from the company annually during the period.