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BDL Director assumes charge
Prior to his appointment, he had served as General Manager (Design & Engineering) at BDL and has a rich experience spanning over 28 years in various areas of Missile Production.
Hyderabad: Kappagantula Divakar assumed charge as the new Director (Technical) of Bharat Dynamics Limited, a Miniratna Category 1 Public Sector Unit (PSU) under the Ministry of Defence, on June 1.
Prior to his appointment, he had served as General Manager (Design & Engineering) at BDL and has a rich experience spanning over 28 years in various areas of Missile Production.
He was instrumental in establishing the Naval Division of BDL at Visakhapatnam and in the successful production of Torpedoes for the Indian Navy. In his past assignments, he headed the Milan, Refurbishment and Explosive Divisions.
At BDL, Bhanur, he worked for indigenisation of warheads, propellants and other explosives and was awarded for his indigenisation efforts which resulted in the saving of precious foreign exchange.
Prior to joining BDL, he worked in Indian Telephone Industries, Rae Bareli for about six years.BDL integrated MRSAM test-fired successfully
Bharat Dynamics Limited’s (BDL) integrated, Medium Range Surface to Air Missile (MR SAM) was test fired successfully at ITR, Balasore on June 30 and July 1.
The missile was jointly developed in India by DRDO and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), Israel which is integrated at BDL, Hyderabad. The missile test firing met all its mission parameters. It is the first of its kind in its class having a range of 70 Kms and is mainly used by Air Defence System.
