HSCC India has achieved a rapid manifold growth over the last five years and established trust and confidence of its clients. Gyanesh Pandey, CMD, HSCC, in an interaction with Prathiba Raju, elucidates about various projects handled by the Miniratna company
Usually PSUs are blamed for a lackadaisical approach and they are termed to be low performers compared to private players. HSCC is set to have changed the trend. Can you share the secret?
Well, the secret of our success is only the sincere effort, hard work and team effort due to which we are able to deliver the projects on time with maintaining the quality and are within the approved cost . By increasing employee efficiency and making each employee result oriented, enables us to become more competitive among our peers.
How do you choose the projects? How many projects are right now in your kitty and their worth?
HSCC has the experience of creating a diverse range of hospital infrastructure including cancer, cardiac care, mother and child, burn, trauma, emergency, OPD, neurology, orthopaedics, respiratory, AYUSH, UNANI, ayurveda, homeopathy, etc. HSCC is instrumental in setting up BSL-III & BSL-IV Lab in India for the first time. HSCC adopts the twin criteria in choosing projects – the first being our commercial interest and other our professional satisfaction. To have a regional spread, we are now scouting for business abroad as well as neighbouring countries. The total healthcare projects in our kitty are more than 100, aggregating an excess of Rs 15000 crores.
HSCC has been giving importance to technology. You are coming up with a completely paper-free hospital in Delhi. Can you give us details on the same? What kind of technology up-gradation is HSCC promoting?
The concept of paper-free hospital in the private sector is already in place, in public sector hospitals the paper-less concept along with IT networking is now gaining ground. Almost every hospital that HSCC now develops has IT infrastructure and paper-less concept. The two major projects recently completed by HSCC that have this paper – less technology concept are Kalpana Chawla Govt. Medical College, Karnal, and a 1300-bedded Emergency and SSB Block at Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi.
What kind of challenges did you face while building up AIIMS like big projects in India?
The major challenges faced by us while executing big projects is fewer agencies that can handle such a quantum of work. Moreover, smaller agencies are not upto the mark and for bigger value of work, very few are available. Availability of labour in new places is less hence desired possibilities of work is hampered. The approach of such smaller agencies to deliver the quality of output for bigger projects often lacks the output capability of professional agencies. Also lack of skilled labour hampers the work.
What is the USP of HSCC compared to HLL Lifecare Limited (HLL) and NBCC India?
The USP of HSCC compared to HLL and NBCC India, is the experienced and competent people working here in the field of healthcare infrastructure. Generally other agencies hire external consultants for conceptualising and detailing of their hospitals and laboratories but HSCC is able to make all such conceptualisation and details within a very short period of time with the help of its in-house experienced architects and design engineers. HSCC also has experienced agencies in project management consultants (PMC) which ensures quality and timely delivery of projects. Moreover HSCC is focussed only on healthcare infrastructure projects instead of other infrastructure works.
Being a world class consultant in health sector, what are the plus points, pain points and challenges you face while you work for India compared to other countries?
Definitely, we are building such hospitals which are compared to the hospitals of developed countries but the pain remains the same. Sometimes this aspect is not recognised by various clients and authorities while inviting tenders for construction of healthcare projects. As such, companies working in other sectors, like manufacturing, metallurgical, railways, housing, steel structures, bridges, highways etc. also get considered along with HSCC which is actually not their expertise.
Major work undertaken by HSCC since 1983, has transformed over the decades. it can be placed under three distinct groups:
- Period 1983 – 1994 HSCC did little consultancy work of procurement and design engineering only. However, the major projects handled during this period were:
- Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital, Mauritius
- 500-bedded Dimapur Govt. Medical College
- Peerless Hospital in Kolkata
- 1994 – 2011: During the period HSCC also started rendering project management consultancy of hospitals in addition to design engineering consultancy. The major projects during this period undertaken included:
- Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre, Bhopal.
- NEIGRIMS, Shillong
- NIB, Noida
- The Sports Injury Centre
- VMCC, Safdarjung, New Delhi
- Trauma Centre, New Delhi
- Nursing Quarters, Srinivaspuri
- PGIMER, RML Hospital
- 2011 to till date: During the period, HSCC has aggressively marketed and undertook diversification. It secured various mega projects and also completed most of these.
- AIIMS, New Delhi : (Underground parking, surgical block, mother and child block, OPD block, geriatric block, emergency, trauma centre expansion, burns and plastic surgery centre.)
- National Cancer Institute, Jhajjar
- CNCI, Kolkata
- RIMS, Imphal
- Mental Health Hospital, Tezpur
- Cancer Hospital, Shillong
- RIPANS, Aizawl
- 500-bedded Hospital, Itanagar
- Kalpana Chawla Govt. Medical College, Karnal
- Expansion of 1300-bedded emergency and SSB Block, Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi.
- Expansion of RML Hospital , New Delhi
- AIIMS at Raipur, Rishikesh and Bhubaneshwar
- New AIIMS at Guntur, Kalyani and Nagpur
- Up-gradation of PMSSY projects at 19 different locations across the country.
- 200-bedded Dickoya Hospital, Sri Lanka
- 200-bedded Hospital at Kathmandu, Nepal
- 200-bedded ENT Hospital, Mauritius
- NIAB, Hyderabad
- NIMHANS, Bangalore
- SAT, Thiruvananthapuram
- Mother & Child Hospitals in Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Chattisgarh
- Medical Colleges at Chamba, Nahan, Mirpur in Himachal Pradesh
- Medical College at Pali, Rajasthan
- Medical College, FALKAWN, Mizoram
- Medical College, Itanagar
- 500 bedded Hospital in IIT, Kharagpur
- ESI Hospital, Siliguri etc.
What is the status of the upcoming AIIMS which are under construction in Guntur, Kalyani and Nagpur?
The Guntur, Kalyani and Nagpur AIIMS are under tendering process and execution of work is expected to start soon.
HSCC has achieved a healthy turnover growth of 92 per cent to Rs 1,106 crore in FY16? What is your expectation in the upcoming fiscal and what are your action plans for it?
Emboldened by the company’s consistent growth in performance in the last quinquennial, our expectation is that HSCC sustain performance by way of diversifying and expanding its business areas and continuing efforts to build up national healthcare infrastructure.