Rana Subhasis Chakravarty, Director, Marketing and Production at HEC, was awarded the ‘Eminent Engineer Award’ by the Institution of Engineers Jharkhand State Centre on the occasion of 52nd Engineers’ Day celebration on Sunday.
The award was given to Chakravarty for his marketing turnaround of HEC wherein he and his marketing team have bagged orders which is highest in the last 8 years. During his 19 months in HEC as director, marketing, Chakravarty believes that he has enjoyed full support of the Board of Directors resulting in the inaugural entry of HEC in the railway business for manufacturing of Track Maintenance Equipment and bagging orders to the tune of approximately Rs. 500 Million. The company on the basis of its metallurgical achievements and under his leadership got the prestigious B11 order for Indian Navy value Rs 4360 Million. HEC has become only indigenous entity to supply special, ultra clean forgings under the program of ‘Make in India’ for reactor pressure vessel providing import substitution.
With hard work and continuous interaction Chakravarty is able to make ISRO, as one of the prestigious customers for HEC by bagging an order of Rs . 300 Million for Horizontal Sliding Doors and Platforms. In the same line with his dedicated team was successful in getting a project from VIZAG Steel worth Rs 1460 Million for the Augmentation of the raw material preparation area for revamping and up gradation of SM1&2. In pipeline there are orders worth Rs . 200 Million for steel sector in Rolls and Slag pots, Rs 800 Million from Vizag Steel for the project of “Conveyor & Allied Equipment for second IOSA & RMHP” and orders for spares in Mining sector touching value up to Rs 150 Million.
This year with aggressive marketing strategy under his command, HEC has broken the record of past 8 years in terms of order booking achieving 118% of the target set by ministry as per MOU even before the end of Q2. In the month of March’19 and in the presence of Chairman CIL, they have inaugurated HMB-15 Dragline Project “AGNI” which is one of esteemed projects for HEC and in successful run.
Chakravarty feels blessed to have a dedicated team on his side which has worked very hard towards realization of this vision. Aligning themselves with “Make In India” concept to strengthen the country HEC jointly with Mazagon Dock Limited is exploring to indigenize manufacturing of propeller shafts for warships of the Indian Navy.
Since the day of his joining in HEC it has been Chakravarty’s focus to centralize the whole Marketing Division under one roof for the smooth functioning which got realized in the Month of January this year. He continuously strives to take the organization and its people to the new heights and put them on the pathway of sustainable development for a long run.
