Navratna Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) has won six of the prestigious Raksha Mantri’s Awards for Excellence for the years 2014-15 and 2015-16. Mr M V Gowtama, Chairman & Managing Director, Directors and other senior officers of BEL received the awards from Mr Arun Jaitley, Raksha Mantri, and Mr Subhash Bhamre, Raksha Rajya Mantri, at a ceremony organised in New Delhi on May 30, 2017.
Here are the six awards won by BEL:
- Raksha Mantri’s Group/Individual Award for “Indigenisation” for the year 2014-15 under the category On Order Projects for Doppler Weather Radar (S Band Doppler Weather Radar & C Band Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radar) developed by the Development & Engineering (D&E) Division of the Naval Systems 2 (Radar Systems & Fire Control Systems) Strategic Business Unit (SBU), BEL-Bangalore.
- Raksha Mantri’s Group/Individual Award for “Design Effort” for the year 2014-15 under the category On Order Projects for LYNX U2 Naval Gun Fire Control System developed by the D&E Division of Naval Systems 2 SBU, BEL-Bangalore, for the Indian Navy.
- Raksha Mantri’s Institutional Award for “Best Performance in Export” for the year 2015-16.
- Raksha Mantri’s Best Performing Division/Factory/Shipyard Award for the “Best Performing Division” among DPSUs for Naval Systems 2 SBU, BEL-Bangalore, for the year 2015-16.
- Raksha Mantri’s Group/Individual Award for “Indigenisation” for the year 2015-16 under the category On Order Projects for the Light Weight Portable Laser Target Designator developed by the D&E Division of BEL-Pune.
- Raksha Mantri’s Group/Individual Award for “Design Effort” for the year 2015-16 under the category On Order Projects for the Test Bed for Automated Air Defence Control and Reporting System (ADC&RS) developed by the D&E Division of Network Centric System (NCS) Group/Air Defence Control and Reporting System/NSC SBU of BEL-Ghaziabad, for the field force of the Indian Army.
The Raksha Mantri’s Awards have been instituted to recognise exemplary performance amongst Ordnance Factories and Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs).