L&T bags Rs 1,700 crore order for Bangladesh power project

[homagnibhatt]

It is off topic, but a couple of links. Lot of NGO's involved locally in the Solar movement.

Bangladesh Installed 3 Million+ New Residential Solar Systems | CleanTechnica

The Bangladesh Solar Energy Revolution Everyone's Ignoring

 

[Sam.]

In my opinion L&T is probably one of the best if not the best company in India to do this work (powerplant design and commissioning). Their work is is supposed to be the highest quality in India however in this project their work scope is,

1. design,
2. detailed engineering,
3. supply,
4. installation and
5. commissioning

I honestly do not know of very many companies in Pakistan, much less China who can do this type of combined cycle power-plant commissioning at this scale.

For L&T this is a rather small project. Their home turf projects are far larger, in the range of 1500, 2000 even 4000 megawatts. But the Chinese have been eating away their market-share in India lately (because Chinese power-plant components are a lot cheaper to make as far as economies of scale). For L&T this is almost like a home turf project.

Back to this project, this should be a cakewalk for L&T as this is rather small. And their employee/labor costs makes them attractive to Marubeni as a subcontractor. They are answerable to Marubeni for their quality of work so work should be completed with diligence and quality oversight.

The Bangladesh Power Dev. Board has been a longtime customer of L&T products (since the 70's) such as power distribution transformers, middle/upper-end switchgear and even transmission towers. Their costs are reasonable and quality is adequate.

L&T has benefited from the long-term closed-economy status of India. All powerplants made or commissioned in India used local manufacture of components (starting from turbines all the way down to PLC controllers) and L&T was the India leader in all this.

Bangladesh or Pakistan always imported items and I'd say that hurt us in the long run. Only beneficiaries were the indentors/importers and the chaur ministers who got paid off.

Only lately has Bangladesh become (rapidly) self sufficient in producing mid-grade transformers (up to 133 KV) and low voltage switchgear, which should have been twenty years ago. But better late than never.



Kya Harj Hai? We're buying an Indian company's services with money. Read the description above....

These guys are aiming for projects in SL as well

Larsen & Toubro in Rs 60 bn projects in SL

As from this field this is one of best company in world and best in India.Larsen and toubro is very effective , efficient and strict in regards of quality.

 

[saurav]

I am not happy with it. It should have gone to Pakistani company who did some successful projects in Punjab recently. Though they raise the project cost but it is worth.

Exactly.