Indian Government-owned aerospace and defence electronics company Bharat Electronics Limited has appointed Binoy Kumar Das as an Additional Director on the company’s Board, with effect from July 4, 2022.
According to the company’s exchange filing, “Pursuant to Regulation 30(2) of SEBI (LODR) Regulations, 2015 we wish to inform that Ministry of Defence, Government of India vide its MoD/DDP letter No. 19(l)/2020-D(BEL) dated 23rd June 2022 appointed Dr. Binoy Kumar Das (DIN: 09660260) as Part-time official Director (Government Nominee Director) on the Board of BEL. In this regard, the Board of Directors appointed Dr. Binoy Kumar Das as Additional Director w.e.f 04th July 2022 vide its circular resolution passed on 04th July, 2022.”
Scientist Dr B K Das has been appointed as Director General (Electronics & Communication System) on 29th April 2022. Prior to this, he was Director, ITR from 2015 to 2020 followed by Director, IRDE. In-between he was Director, DEAL as additional responsibility. He was an integral part of Indian Missile Program for 33 years and worked relentlessly towards Test and Evaluation of various state of the art Missile Systems.
He has spearheaded Test range and instrumented it, which became the Best and Busiest in the world. He has transformed the Test Range Technology for the country to have entire capability of indigenous Systems. Indigenous development of EOTS, Radar Systems, Long Range Telemetry System, Phased array & drone based Telemetry system, Telecommand System and number of multitarget tracking Systems along with various processes and system software creating automated system for mission management has been achieved under his able leadership, the statement said.
In IRDE, under his leadership 21 state of the art products could be realized in the year 2021 like Electro-optic Mast, LEOP, CAMOP, AGMS and many more systems. During this period, he has created various infrastructure and state of the art Test Facilities for Electro Optical Systems. He has led various projects of national importance in both the Labs and defined the vision for both of these laboratories. Under his dynamic leadership these two laboratories have set target for year 2022 to realize 22 products of international importance.
B.Tech. from Burla Engineering College, Odisha, M.Tech & Ph.D. from IIT, Kharagpur, Dr. Das is the holder of Best Graduate Gold Medal and Topper of IIT. His Ph.D. thesis was awarded the Best Thesis by USA.
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