(ET)
The district administration has allowed BHEL to work with 50 per cent percent staff strength. BHEL management had requested the district administration to allow it to start operations in its shop floors with half the strength. Till now, BHEL was working with 33 per cent strength, which according to the BHEL executives was inadequate to meet the unit’s shop floor requirements. Private offices in the township however would be allowed to operate with 33 per cent staff and adhering to social distancing norms.
BHEL executives said the factory was operation with barely 4000 personnel against the 12,000 staff (both regular and contract) before the lockdown was imposed. T District administration has put BHEL among the 6 areas in Bhopal where economic activities can be resumed from Monday. As per the district administration, BHEL area has been defined as the area from Kasturba hospital to township and thereafter from Bijli Nagar to Patel Nagar on Raisen road.
