Hindustan Prefab Limited

Hindustan Prefab Limited (HPL), one of the oldest CPSEs, functions under the administrative control of the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs. Pioneer of Prefab technology in India - HPL was established as a Department in 1948, for meeting the housing needs of people who were migrated from Pakistan. Later HPL was incorporated as a company in the name of Hindustan Housing Factory Limited in 1953 and became a CPSE in 1955. On 9th March 1978, name of the company was changed to Hindustan Prefab Ltd (HPL).

Over the years, HPL has built a wide range of civil engineering structures besides supplying pre-fabricated components for the building industry and Indian Railways, HPL was amongst the pioneers which introduced PRC railway sleepers, a technically feasible substitute to wood and steel railway sleepers. HPL was the first to produce pre-cast pre-stressed concrete railway bridges girders for building railways bridges. HPL is credited with building large number of residential, industrial, and institutional structures using pre-cast concrete and prefabrication technique. Standing on the landscape of Delhi are structures made by HPL namely the, Ashoka Hotel, Palam Air Port Terminal Building, East and West Block in R.K. Puram, Vikas Bhawan in IP Estate ...