India has established a strong and diversified manufacturing base for the production of a wide variety of basic and capital goods to meet the requirements of various sectors including heavy electrical, power generation and transmission industries, process equipment, automobiles, ships, aircrafts, mining, chemicals, petroleum, etc.
Heavy Electrical Engineering Industry is a key manufacturing sector, which caters to the needs of the energy sector & other industrial sectors. Major equipment, like boilers, generators, turbines, transformers, and switch gears and related accessories, are manufactured by this sector.
The CPSEs under the Ministry have played a vital role in the industrial development of the country. Ranging from heavy electrical engineering equipment, the CPSEs cater to diverse sectors of the economy including civil construction, heavy machinery, tea plantation etc. CPSEs under the Ministry are:
The Heavy Engineering and Machine Tool sector is a part of the Capital Goods sector. The sector comprises of plant and machinery, equipment / accessories required for manufacture /production, either directly or indirectly, of goods or rendering services required for replacement, modernization, technological upgradation, and expansion.
