On his appointment as Director on the Board of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), T.N. Veeraraghavan, 59, has assumed charge as Director (Engineering, Research & Development) of the Maharatna Public Sector engineering and manufacturing enterprise.Prior to this, he was heading the company’s Boiler Auxiliaries Plant at Ranipet as Executive Director. An Electrical Engineer from University of Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore and an MBA in Financial Management from the Department of Commerce and Management, Bangalore University.