Dharam Bir Arora Bio

CURRICULUM VITAE



Name : D.B. Arora
Date of birth : 01/03/1936
Nationality: Indian
Qualifications:
B.E. (Electrical Engineering), Delhi College of Engineering. (1958).

Communication Address

DK-II/13, View Point Bungalows, Danish Kunj,
Kolar Road, Bhopal, M.P., India .

Tel.- 0755-2416010,
(M) 9826246688

Email:



arora.dharambir@rediffmail.com



Presently working as a power consultant.

Experience Highlights:

1. 33 years of practical Service Experience in one of the best State owned Power Utilities of India, MPEB. Retired as Chief Engineer from MPEB in 1994.
2. 11 years in Senior Managerial positions (SE 6 years & CE 5 years).
3. Was in-charge for hydro power stations of MPEB for O&M besides design and construction
4. 25 years service experience in Thermal Power Stations.
5. 11 years Hydro Power Station service experience.
6. Experience as a Power Consultant since 1994.
7. In continuous touch with government policies on power sector in India.

Key Qualifications/ Experience:

a. Has pursued engineering and management problems related to design, construction, operation, maintenance and management of Major Thermal Power projects and Major/ Small/ Mini/ Micro Hydro Power projects through out most of his professional career.

b. Has vast experience of all the aspects and areas of Power Industry, in particular, and also of other infrastructure fields, like Coal Mines and Irrigation.

c. Supplementary work experience in pedagogy and professionally qualified as a trainer/motivator through his role as the head of MPSEB’s Training Institute for Power Generation Engineers, as Chief Engineer.

d. Computer savvy and an intelligent user of the Information and Communication Technology.

e. Worked out a complete quality operation and maintenance system for the Thermal and Hydro Power Stations of MPEB according to the latest industry standards and best practices.

f. Has managed the development of MPEB’s Thermal and Hydro Power business concerning study of future power demand of the state and developing strategy for Thermal and Hydro power development, conception, government statutory approvals, design, erection, commissioning, operation and maintenance, training of technical human resource for the major Thermal and Hydro Power installations.


g. He has humanitarian approach and the understanding of human problems and human weaknesses and believes in dealing with these with sympathy and kindness on one hand and sternness and firmness on the other. During his tenures as the head of various departments in MPEB, AP Collieries and MP Irrigation Department, he has ensured complete industrial peace and enlisted full support from the entire work force even though he did not hesitate to take unpleasant action in the interest of national/state work.


h. He has demonstrated faith in the employees of the organization(s) for their ability to perform to the best of their potentials. This has motivated all employees and created an ambiance for better performance.


I. He is continuously in touch and is also well aware with the power sector reforms, such as Unbundling of State Electricity Boards into entities such as Generation, Transmission and Distribution Companies, commercial arrangements for Private Power Supply, Pooling and Merit Order Dispatch, Scheduled and Unscheduled Interchanges, Pricing- PIP, POP, LOLP and VOLL, etc., Generator tariff fixation considering availability, forecast, ancillary service, transmission constraints, reserves and marginal plant adjustments.


j. He is well equipped to identify key area in reforms that either have direct bearing or be enabling factors in improvement of cash flows on a sustainable basis for the Power Sector in the State and establish milestones on which these key areas could be monitored. He is also aware of the needs and requirements of the Private Power Producers and Distributors, being a consultant to a number of them. He is empanelled as Consultant with Power Finance Corporation Ltd. (PFC Ltd.).



k. He has dealt with other institutions financing small and big power projects. These are IDBI, LIC, REC, IREDA, and Nationalized Banks. He has dealt with World Bank funding for civil works and Hydro-Electric Projects. Procedures for availing the facility of the World Bank loans and the Local and International Bidding and their approval are known to him, as he was involved in this for the procurement of the E&M and Heavy Earth moving equipment for the Irrigation Department of M.P.


L. He is fully equipped to handle the negotiations of PPAs and BSAs besides effective monitoring of Bulk power purchase sale agreements with the transmission and distribution companies.



m. On the transmission side, he had been the In-charge of High Voltage
Substations of Major Thermal Power Stations. He has carried out the
Commissioning, electrical testing and maintenance of High Voltage
Transformers and switch gear in the power stations. He had also been
Involved in Project privatization.



Projects Worked In

MPEB


Thermal Power Stations.

Korba East .

Power station No.1 3x30MW Siemens +10 MW Hitachi
Power Hose No. 2. 4x50 MW Russian
Power House No.3. 2x120 MW BHEL

Korba West 5X200 MW. German KWU

Sarni Power Station 5x62.5 MW British


Hydel Power Stations



§ 315 MW Bansagar-I H.P.S. (3*105 BHEL).
§ 20 MW Birsinghpur H.P.S. (1*20 BHEL).
§ 120 MW Bango H.P.S. (3*40 BHEL).
§ 115 MW Gandhisagar H.P.S. (5*23 Hitachi and Voith).
§ 160 MW Pench (2x80 MW BHEL )
§ 90 MW MW Bargi (2x45 MW BHEL)

Ø Irrigation Department of M.P.
o Designs of MRP and Rudri Projects.
o Lift Irrigation Scheme, Abhanpur.
o Bango Dam construction Monitoring.
o Assistance to Chief Engineer (Irrigation), MBH, at Raipur M.P. , for estimation of World Bank aided T&P equipment and other related matters, as S.E (Hydro).

Ø Singareni Collieries A.P.
o Coal Screening Plant-Incl.5
o Underground work in Incline 9, Rudrampur, A.P.
o Yellundu Collieries, A.P.
o Coal screening Plant No. 2.

Ø Chambal Hydel Project, Distt. Mandsaur. M.P.
o Designs Office
o Turbine Erection.

Ø C.P.W.D. New Delhi
o Design Deptt


D.B.Arora Retired Chief Engineer (Generation)
MP Electricity Board
Managing Director
ACON POWER CONSULTANTS

About Ash from power station-whether hazardous

As far as my experience in the power generation field goes,ash is an inert and harmless.Many a time ash has spilled from ash pond of the power station in to the nearby water body such as a flowing nallah near by the plant.Many an animals are moving through it regularly in India. Nothing happened to these animals like buffalows which regularly visit it for cooling themselves even after long exposure even ty drink the same water.