The Bharat Electronics Ltd 's (BEL) Board of Directors has approved the appointment of M V Rajasekhar as Additional Director - Director (R&D).

This comes after the Ministry of Defence on July 6 appointed Rajasekhar as Director - R&D vice Mahesh V, who has retired from services on August 31 on attaining superannuation.

Rajasekhar took charge as Director – R&D on September 1, 2020. Before this, he was working as Chief Scientist of BEL’s Central Research Laboratory (CRL)-Bengaluru and Officer on Special Duty (OSD) at BEL’s Corporate Office, before his elevation.

Rajasekhar joined BEL’s Ghaziabad Unit on February 1, 1985, as Probationary Engineer after completing B Tech in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati. In a career spanning over the last 35 years, he has worked in various capacities and gained rich experience in diverse technologies of BEL.

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