User:Amit1950

I am a Retired Engineer (male-63 years) with work experience of over 40 years in Steel Industry. I have mostly worked with SAIL & MECON Ltd (Both Government of India Under takings). In the year 1999 MECON was awarded a contract for Design, Mnufacture, Supply, Civil Work, Erection & Commissioning of Second Lauch Pad at Sriharikota, also known as SHAR at that time and the value of contract was Rs 380 Crore (Later extra claim of approx 40 Cr was also paid to MECON). I was personally responsible of Electrical Power Generartion & Distribution, UPS System, Fire Detection, Cabling (Including Optical Fibre) for this project. I was in Sriharikota / Sulurpeta from the year 2001-2003 (when the units were commissioned).At that time Mr PV Rao was then Project Director from ISRO side. Dr Kalam visited VAB building of SLP and I was present from MECON side - in fact I operated the Moblie Launch Pedesatal in his presence & got photgraphed with him. No other description of Second Launch Pad will be more authentic than the one from me & my colleagues, who has seen it happed from close quarters. Any way if some user desires to delete some portion edited by me then write up becomes more of a news paper report (since all data seems to have been collected from such sources only). All the facilities of Second Launch Pad (about 30 buildings) such as UDMH storage, LOX etc are also not mentioned in the wikipedia's write up. Height of VAB,MLP, the lauch pad, the LP towers etc also are known to us being the designers of the Pad. However as a proof please read news item published in MECON Ltd's (A Govt of India Enterprise) offical web site.

http://www.meconlimited.co.in/FlashNews/Chandrayaan.pdf

For any querry I can be contacted over e-mail : amit1950@yahoo.co.in --Amit1950 (talk) 11:33, 3 September 2013 (UTC)