THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT, 2005

INFORMATION ON HECL IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RTI ACT 2005

In  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  the  Right  to  Information  Act, 2005  and  in compliance with chapter II section 4(1) sub clause (b), the following information is placed:

Compliance under Section 4(1) sub clause (b) of Right to information Act, 2005 

I.           Particulars of Organization, Functions and Duties 

·         Incorporated                  :         On 31^st December 1958

·         Core strength                :         One-stop-shop for:

                                                ü Mining Equipments

                                                ü    Steel Plant Equipments

ü    EM Equipment

ü    Railway Products

ü     Defense Products

·         Equity base                   :         Rs. 453.24 crore

                                                      (100% Govt.)

HECL a Public Sector Undertaking, under Ministry of Heavy Industry, Government of India, is a leading organization in India.
 

HEC was incorporated on 31.12.1958 under the Companies Act, 1956. The company started production in the year 1964. It was established under the Ministry of Industry with the primary objective of achieving self sufficiency and self reliance in the field of design and manufacture of equipment and machinery for core sector, especially steel industries.  It was visualized at that time that one steel plant of one million ton capacity will be added every year in India, which however, did not materialize.  Consequently the demand for steel making machinery was never as high as it was expected.  Hence HEC diversified its area of operation in other core sectors like mining, railways, defence etc.  Currently, the company is engaged in the manufacture and supply of capital equipment, machine tools and spares needed for the core sector industries namely; steel, coal, cement, power, defence, aluminum, ship building and railways etc.
 

The head office and three plants of the company are situated in Ranchi, the capital of the newly formed state Jharkhand.  The company has its offices in New Delhi and Kolkatta.
 

·         Capital Base :

The authorised capital of the company is Rs. 500 crores and the paid up capital is Rs.453.24 crores. 

·         Existing Plant Facilities, Products and Past Collaborations :

·     More than 7000 acres of land had been conveyed to the company at the time of its incorporation by Govt. of Bihar for its use.  The company has built plants, administrative office and township on this land.

·     The company was set up with the capability to manufacture steel plant equipment that can enhance the steel producing capacity by one million tones per annum. The company has three manufacturing units and one project and consultancy division viz.

(i)   Foundry Forge Plant (FFP)

(ii)  Heavy Machine Building Plant (HMBP)

(iii) Heavy Machine Tool Plant (HMTP)

(iv) Project Division (TKP)

·         The installed capacity of the plant units is as follows:-  

(i)   FFP      :  44000 T of casting and forgings    

(ii)  HMBP  :  40,000 T of equipment and structures

(iii) HMTP  :  120 nos. of machine tools. 

·         Details of facilities available, the products and the past collaborators of the plant are as follows:-
 

 FOUNDRY FORGE PLANT (FFP)
 

The plant was established in collaboration with SKODAEXPORT of erstwhile CSSR and equipped with facilities for melting, heavy and medium casting, all types of forging and machining. Some of the major facilities installed in the plant are as follows:-

1. Induction furnaces of capacity 0.5 t, 2t and 3t.

2. Arc furnaces of capacity 5t, 10t, 20t and 60t.

3. Vacuum arc degassing furnace of capacity 60t.

4. Hydraulic forge presses of capacity 6000t, 2650t, 1650t and  1000t.

5. 3t hammer, a series of small free forgings hammers and die forging presses.

6. Various ranges of machine tools including one lathe of 53m bed length.

7. Low frequency induction hardening machine for CRM rolls (25 mm depth).

8. Centrifugal casting facility for slender bushes (350 mm dia and 1m long).

9. Horizontal and vertical mist quenching equipment for quality heat treatment, producer gas & oxygen plant

The plant has also acquired technical know-how from the following agencies:-

1. M/s Hitachi of Japan for updating forgings and forged roll technology.

2. M/s Creusot Loire of France for manufacture of diesel locomotive crankshafts.

3. M/s National Forge of USA for nitriding and machining of diesel locomotive crankshafts.
    

It manufacturers the following products:-

1. Medium and heavy castings/forgings for coal, defence, railway power and other engineering sector - iron castings weighing upto 100t, steel castings weighing upto 90t, non-ferrous castings weighing upto 1t and forgings weighing upto 20t.

2. Rolls for hot rolling mill and cold rolling mill of steel plant.

3. Crankshafts for railways.

4. Rolling mills, slabbing mills, blooming mills, SG iron rolls etc.

In addition this plant has also developed the following critical products:-

1. Armour plate forging for defence

2. Turret castings for defence.

3. Propeller shafts for Navy.

HEAVY MACHINE BUILDING PLANT (HMBP)  
 

The plant was established in collaboration with ROMASEXPORT of erstwhile USSR and equipped with facilities for machining, gear cutting, heavy structurals and heat treatment.  The plant comprises the following shops:-

1. Heavy Machine Shop

2. Medium and small machine shop

3. Reduction gear shop

4. Block of coke oven shop

5. Heat treatment and forging shop

6. Tools shop

7. Repair shop

8. Structural fabrication shop.
    

Some of the major facilities installed in the plant are as follows:-

1. Giant lathe (SOB:4 m, CD:20m)

2. CNC vertical turning and boring machine (job dia, 14m, job weight 250t)

3. CNC plano milling machine (job size 3.5mx7mx2.5m,job weight 120t).

4. CNC Horizontal boring machine (200 mm spindle dia x 18 m col.travel)

5. CNC flame cutting machine (Max job size 25mx6.2m upto 500 mm thick).

6. Gear cutting machine (max job dia 5m, max. module 40mm hobbing).
    

The plant has also acquired technical know-how from the following agencies:-

1. M/s Schloemann Siemag (SMS) of Germany for Continuous Casting Plants.

2. M/s Lurgi GmbH of Germany for Sinter Plants.

3. M/s MANN of Germany for special purpose cranes.

4. M/s Bucyrus-erie of USA for 10 cu.m. excavators.

5. M/s Ransom and Rapier of UK for walking draglines.

6. M/s GHH Sterkrade of Germany for Mine winders and vertical transportation system.

7. M/s Orenstein and Koppel (O&K) AG of Germany for Hydraulic excavators.
    

The plant designs and manufactures equipment and spares for the following:-

1. Steel plants.

2. Coal/mining equipment viz. 5 and 10 cu.m. rope shovels, hydraulic shovels, draglines, crushers and grinders, material handling equipment etc.

3. Aluminium, power, defence, space research and atomic energy etc.

It has also a design and technology wing manned with trained and experienced engineers. Some of the major equipment successfully designed by HMBP are as follows:-
 

Steel Plant Equipment 

1. Sinter plant equipment (75 sq.m. to 312 sq.m.)

2. Coke Oven batteries (4.3 m to 7 m tall ovens).

3. Blast furnace (1033 cu.m. to 3200 cu.M)

4. Steel melting shop equipment (100t to 300t LD converter)

5. Continuous casting plant (for slabs/blooms/billets)

6. Rolling mill equipment including 3600 mm plate mill

7. EOT crane (up to 450t capacity).
    

Mining Equipment

1. Draglines upto 24 cu.m. Capacity and 96m boom.

2. Electric rope shovels (5/10/12.5 cu.m. capacity).

3. Primary gyratory, secondary and tertiary cone crushers and double toggle jaw crushers of various sizes.

4. Mine winders upto drum dia 4.6m

5. Folding cum-vertical repositioning platform for India Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

HEAVY MACHINE TOOLS PLANT (HMTP)
  

The plant was established in collaboration with SKODA of erstwhile, CSSR and equipped with facilities for manufacturing heavy machine tools-both conventional and CNC version.  It has also design and R&D wing manned with trained and experienced engineers.  The plant is equipped with CNC machine tools, conventional machine tools, induction hardening equipment etc.  Subsequently, the plant has also acquired technical know-how from the following agencies:-

1. M/s HERCULES of Germany for roll grinding machines

2. M/s HEGENSCHEIDT of Germany for railway lathes

3. M/s O-M of Japan for vertical borers.

4. M/s BOEHRINGER of Germany for plano-milling machines

The plant designs and manufactures equipment and spares for the following:-

1. Special purpose railway machine tools

2. CNC & Conventional machine tools in the medium and heavy rang for core sectors and defence like vertical turning and boring machine, roll turning lathe, roll grinding machine, deep hole boring machine, planer, plano-milling machine etc.

It also has also a fully equipped development wing and design section with CAD center, prototype assembling and testing facilities and manned with qualified and experienced engineers.  HMTP has successfully indigenised the design of machine tools –both conventional and CNC version.

·       For movement of the materials within the plant and upto Hatia railway yard (nearest railway station) HEC has its siding of approx. 100 kms. of railway lines served by its own diesel engines (8 nos.) and wagons (125 nos.).  The company has power generating facilities consisting of 4 nos. of DG sets each of 2.8 MW in FFP and 1 no of 3.5 MW of DG set in HMBP as standby arrangement.

 VISION

To be a major Heavy Engineering Company in India providing quality products and services to the Steel, Mining, Coal, Railways and other Strategic Sectors.
 

MISSION

1. To acquire and maintain leading position as suppliers of quality equipment, spares, systems & services for the Steel, Mining, Coal, Railways and other Strategic Sectors.

2. To make the Revival Plan sustainable

3. To expand business into allied areas and other priority sectors of the economy.

OBJECTIVES

1.             GROWTH

To attain substantial jump in production and bring about sustained growth to attain production level of Rs.3000 crores by 2011-12.

2.             PROFITABILITY

To provide reasonable & adequate return on capital employed, primarily through improvement in operational efficiency, capacity utilization & productivity, in order to generate adequate internal resources to finance the company’s growth.

3.     HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT

To enable each employee to achieve his optimum potential, improve his capabilities, perceive his role and responsibilities and participate in and contribute to the growth and success of the company.

To continuously invest in human resources and be alive to their needs, hopes and aspirations.

4.     CUSTOMER SATISFACTION

To build a high degree of customer confidence by providing increased value for his money through improved product quality, delivery, performance and customer service.

5.     MODERNISATION

To upgrade and modernize plants and equipment with the aim of increasing availability of machines/equipment and removing bottlenecks.

6.          TECHNOLOGY

To achieve technological excellence in operation by development of indigenous technology and efficient absorption and adaptation of imported technologies to suit business needs and priorities with a view to providing a competitive advantage to the company.

 

 Addresses of HEC Ltd. Corporate Office, Divisions and Offices 

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II.        Powers and duties of HECL Officers and employees

HEC Limited is a Public Sector Undertaking under the Ministry of Heavy Industries. The powers of Company official are well defined at all levels in the Organization. Duties are assigned to its officers and employees from time to time.

III.      Procedure followed in the decision making process: (Organization Chart)

HECL has a well-defined system of decision making with adequate channels of supervision and accountability. Proposals requiring decisions of any nature are initiated at appropriate Executive level at the Divisions/Offices and at the Corporate level. Proposals generally pass through Directors and CMD for approval. All proposals having financial implications are routed through respective Finance Departments/Divisions. Powers delegated to various approving authorities are clearly spelled out in HECL’s “Delegation of Powers” document.
 

Where required, Departmental/Divisional committees are formed to facilitate decision making.
 

Major policy decisions and decisions going beyond the delegation of powers upto CMD level are put up to the Board for approval. An Organizational Chart of HECL is appended below:

                         Organization Chart

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IV.     Norms set by HECL for discharge of its functions

The norms for discharge of functions are clearly mentioned in our mission and vision statements in the forgoing paras.

V.         Rules and regulations, instructions, manuals and records held by HECL or under its control or used by HECL employees for discharging its functions.

Important Internal Rules, Regulations, Manuals and Records, which are used by the employees of the Company in discharge of their functions, are given below:

A) Matters pertaining to Company affairs

a) Memorandum & Articles of Association – (Custodian – Co. Secry/ HEC)

b) Government guidelines

c) President Directives issued from time to time.

d) Decisions of the Board of Directors – (Custodian – Co. Secry/ HEC)

B) Matters pertaining to Finance & Accounts

a) Accounting policies.

b) Accounting standards.

c) Accounting Manual.

C) Matters pertaining to Works, Contract, Commercial, Procurement, etc.

a) Purchase Manual.

b) Works and service manual.

D) Establishment matters pertaining to HECL employees

 a) HEC Employee’s Conduct & Discipline & Appeal Rules 1981.

 b) Standing Order for the Industrial Establishment belonging to M/s HEC Ltd., Ranchi.

  c) In addition to above, an Establishment Manual is in vogue which contains guidelines/ procedures/ office orders/ Rules/ Circulars etc. pertaining to various service conditions/ facilities including delegation of power in respect of its employees and also ex-employees.

E) Human Resources Development  

     Training Policies

F) Public relations

    Advertisement policy/ guidelines

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VI.     Statement of the categories of documents that are held by HECL or under its  control:

        Various categories of documents that are being held by the Company or under its control are given below:

   A) Documents pertaining to incorporation

B) Documents pertaining to Board Meeting & General Meetings

C) Documents pertaining Accounts:

D) Documents pertaining to Contracts, Commercial etc.

E) Documents pertaining to plant Operations

F) Documents pertaining to projects

G) Documents pertaining to establishment matter

H) Documents pertaining to operation of Community Development and other welfare scheme

 I)  Advertising policies

J)  Documents pertaining to legal matters

K) Agreements

 L) Licences

VII.    Particulars of any arrangement that exists for consultation with or  representation by the members of the public in relation to the formulation of its policy or implementation thereof

Being a Central PSU & registered under The Company’s Act, Company holds AGM besides regular BOD meetings as prescribed. However, public can give their suggestion / observations & comments if so wishes.

VIII.   Statement of the Boards, Councils, Committees and other Bodies consisting of two or more persons constituted as HECL’s part or for the purpose of its advice, and as to whether meetings of those Boards, Councils, Committees and other Bodies are open to the Public, or the minutes of such meetings are accessible for public.

Meetings of Boards, Committees and other Bodies are not open to the Public, or the minutes of such meetings are not made accessible for public as the nature of Business of HECL is that of sensitive matter/ commercial interests. Since the Company’s revival is being monitored by the Hon’able High Court of Jharkhand ( C.P. 5/2004 & W.P.(C) 4513/2004), Information on this account has not been disclosed to public at large.

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IX.            Directory of HECL’s officers and employees