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Bengaluru, December 13, 2021: The Hon’ble Raksha Mantri, Shri Rajnath Singh, today virtually inaugurated “Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav”, a seven-day exhibition at 75 locations pan India, including nine Units of BEL. The Hon’ble Raksha Mantri also launched the BEL Hall of Electronics at Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum, Bengaluru.

Students of local schools, colleges and professional institutions, and the general public at large are attending the exhibition being organised at BEL’s Units in Bengaluru, Ghaziabad, Panchkula, Kotdwara, Navi Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Machilipatnam and Chennai. The event provides a unique and one-of-its-kind opportunity for all to have a first-hand glimpse of the various iconic and marquee products manufactured by BEL for use by the country’s Defence forces. The exhibition is being conducted in strict adherence with all COVID-related protocols.

Films on the growth and evolution of professional electronics in India and BEL’s contributions to the nation’s capabilities in the field of strategic electronics and allied areas are being screened to the visitors.

“Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav” is an initiative of the Government of India to commemorate 75 years of progressive India and its glorious history.

Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) has developed tethered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) which are ideally suited for applications that require more endurance. It is designed to secure airbases which, the officials pointed out, could prevent attacks like the one that took place at Pathankot Air Force Station in 2016. The UAV system can be used for aerial reconnaissance and intelligence gathering as well.

The system consists of a hexacopter, electro-optic payload, auto winching system with tether cable and a ground control station. “It can fly up to 100 metres in height and has electro-optical infrared (EO/IR) sensors. It is capable of surveying up to 2 km of radius in daylight and 1 km at night. It can take image snapshots at any time during the flight and the UAV system is built in a way to withstand harsh environments,” a BEL official said.

Powered by wired cables, it can fly for six hours and it requires an hour for the motors to cool down. If the power gets abruptly disconnected, in-built batteries can continue to power it for another five minutes.

The system can be effectively used for various surveillance and monitoring applications by enhancing its capabilities with the displacement of the electro-optic payload, and has the advantage of long detection ranges. BEL engineers started working on developing the UAV nine months ago.

The defence PSU is also developing Hexacopter-20, a multi-rotor UAV. It is a Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) UAV capable of performing collaborative missions with other multicopters. Hexacopter can be customised to take and activate desired payloads like HADR (Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief), Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) and microphone depending on the applications required. It has a simple user interface, which can be handled by a single operator.

The UAV has been developed in association with a Bengaluru-based startup. Its capabilities were demonstrated to the Army and the Air Force, and BEL officials said they have expressed interest.

BEL organises Webinar on Role of Standards in Quality Improvement

The Bangalore Complex of Navratna Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) conducted a virtual interactive webinar on ‘Quality Improvement in the Entire Supply Chain – Role of Standards in Quality Improvement’ for its vendors on December 1, 2021, to commemorate Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav and Aatmanirbhar Bharat.

A total of 110 sub-contract vendors from across India, covering all the nine Units of BEL, attended the webinar. Heads of Quality from all the Units and SBUs of BEL were present along with the Corporate Quality team.

Mr Narasimha Kumar S V N, Sr DGM (Corporate Quality), welcomed the participants. Mrs Padma Sharma, Manager (Corporate Standards), conducted the training session. She brought out the Quality aspects regarding following and adopting the various national and international Standards, and emphasized the need for Standards in maintaining quality for processes and products being offered by various sub-contract vendors to BEL.

An interactive Question and Answer session with the vendors followed, which was conducted by Mr Surya Prasad V, Sr DGM (Corporate Quality).

Mr Sankar Subramanian R, GM (Quality), gave the concluding remarks.

Bengaluru, November 26, 2021: Mr Dinesh Kumar Batra, Director (Finance) & CFO, Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), has bagged the Greentech Corporate Governance Professional of the Year Award 2021.

Mr Batra received the award at the Corporate Governance Summit organised by Greentech Foundation at Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu, on Friday, November 26, 2021.

Mr Dinesh Kumar Batra has, as Director (Finance) and CFO of the Navratna Defence PSU, contributed immensely to ensuring good corporate governance at BEL. He has taken initiatives for avoiding conflicts of interest through ethical and responsible leadership at all levels, and ensured meeting all statutory disclosures and compliances. As CFO, he has played an important role in the Audit, Nomination and Remuneration, Stakeholders Relationship and Board-level Risk Management Committees. Mr Batra has also ensured sound internal controls within the Company with proper internal checks by an in-house Internal Audit mechanism.

Mr Batra, who is on the Board of BEL Optronic Devices Limited (BELOP), Pune, and BEL-Thales Systems Limited (BTSL), Bengaluru, heads the Audit Committees of these two subsidiary companies of BEL, responsible for regulating, monitoring and reporting of Trading by Insider and Code of Practice and Procedure for Fair Disclosures of Price Sensitive Information.

As CFO, he ensures all disclosures and compliances as per Companies Act-2013 (as amended) and SEBI (LODR) 2015, Clause 17 to 27 and DPE Guidelines on Corporate Governance. In testimony to this, besides clean report from statutory and secretarial auditors, he has received the PSE Excellence award for Corporate Governance from the Indian Chamber of Commerce in 2020. Mr Batra’s wide and varied experience has helped him contribute meaningfully to key and strategic management decisions.

Photo caption: Mr Dinesh Kumar Batra, Director (Finance) & CFO, Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), receving the Greentech Corporate Governance Professional of the Year Award 2021.

New Delhi, September 14, 2021: Navratna Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) has been conferred the prestigious ‘Rajbhasha Kirti’ Award (Second Prize) under PSU category (‘C’ region) for the second consecutive year.

Mrs Anandi Ramalingam, Officiating CMD, BEL, received the awards on behalf of BEL from Union Ministers of State, Ministry of Home Affairs, Mr Ajay Kumar Mishra, and Mr Nisith Pramanik, at the annual awards ceremony held in Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, on the occasion of Hindi Day, today. The Hon’ble Home Minister, Mr Amit Shah, was present during the first half of the function. Mr Nityanand Rai, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs; Mr Manoj Kumar, Executive Director (National Marketing), BEL, and Mr Jagadish Chand, GM (Radar)/BEL-Ghaziabad, too, were present on the occasion.

This award has been instituted by the Department of Official Language (OL), Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, to honour Central Government offices, banks and PSUs for excellence in implementation of the OL Policy and its usage in the three regions, A, B and C. The award carries a memento and a citation.

Mr Shrinivas Rao, Officer (OL)/BEL-Corporate Office, has been awarded the ‘Rajbhasha Gaurav Puraskar’ (Second Prize) under Non-Hindi category (2018-19) for his article “Indian Advertising World – Size, Evolution, Potential and Future”. This award is bestowed on authors of well-researched Hindi articles, published in the official magazines of Central Government firms.

Webinar for Vendors

Corporate Quality is conducting a Webinar to BEL Vendors  as per the Guidelines of MoD on account of of “Commemoration of 75 Years of India’s Independence“, “Aatmanirbhar Bharat”

Webinar Presentation (PPT) Details are follows :

Date :  07-09-2021 (Tuesday)

Time :  2 PM to 5 PM (90 minutes Presentation and 90 minutes interaction)

Target : Subcontract/Purchase Vendors of all Units/SBUs/CSGs

Mode : Internet Cisco Webex – Link

Topic of the Webinar : “Quality Improvement in the Entire Supply Chain”

Vendors are required to Register to participate in the Webinar.

Following is the link for Registration by the Vendors.

https://bel-india.webex.com/webappng/sites/bel-india/meeting/info/c51871198ad74148a94b5043726795c0

New Delhi, August 31, 2021: The Indian Navy has signed a Contract with Navratna Defence PSU Bharat Limited (BEL) for supply of the first indigenous, comprehensive Naval Anti Drone System (NADS) with both hard kill and soft kill capabilities.

The contract was signed by Indian Navy and BEL, today at New Delhi, in the presence of senior Naval officers and DRDO representatives. Indian Navy has provided consistent support and has played a lead role in the joint development of the anti drone system by DRDO and BEL.

NADS, developed by DRDO and manufactured by BEL, is the first indigenously developed anti-drone system to be inducted into the Indian Armed Forces. Multiple Units of BEL – Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune and Machilipatanam, and DRDO Labs, LRDE-Bangalore, DLRL and CHESS, Hyderabad, and IRDE-Dehradun, in close collaboration with Indian Navy, were involved in the making of this fully indegenious system, as part of the Atmanirbar Bharat initiative to counter drone threats of adversaries.

The Naval Anti Drone System can instantly detect and jam micro drones and uses a laser-based kill mechanism to terminate targets. The NADS will be an effective all- encompasing counter to the increased drone threat to strategic naval installations.

The NADS was first deployed to provide security cover for the Republic Day Parade this year and later during the Hon’ble Prime Minister’s Independence Day speech at Red Fort. The system, which offers 360-degree coverage, was also deployed in Ahmedabad for the Modi-Trump roadshow.

The Naval Anti Drone System uses the help of Radar, Electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) sensors and Radio Frequency (RF) detectors to detect and jam the micro drones. The DRDO’s RF/Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) detects the frequency which is being used by the controller and the signals are then jammed. The DRDO’s anti-drone technology system provides for both ‘soft kill’ and ‘hard kill’ options to the Indian Armed Forces to tackle fast-emerging aerial threats.

Both the static and mobile versions of NADS will be supplied to the Indian Navy within a short time from the signing of contract

Bengaluru, August 13, 2021: The Hon’ble Raksha Mantri, Shri Rajnath Singh, on Friday inaugurated (through Videoconference) the Transducer Production Facility established at Navratna Defence PSU Bharat Electronic Limited (BEL)’s Bangalore Complex, and Oxygen Concentrators manufactured by BEL under the PM Cares initiative, at a ceremony organised as part of the 75 th Independence Day celebrations (Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav) of India.

Mrs Anandi Ramalingam, officiating CMD, Directors and other senior officers of BEL and the Ministry of Defence were present.

Mrs Anandi Ramalingam, officiating CMD, Directors and other senior officers of BEL and the Ministry of Defence were present.

Transducer Production facility: Set up at a cost of Rs.30 Crores, this is a very large in-house facility catering to the production and testing of a wide range of Transducers and underwater equipment. The Transducer Test facilities include Pressure Test Facility, Acoustic Test Facility and Load Test Facility. It is well equipped with precision equipment to control quality and technical specifications at various stages, like precision jigs and fixtures for stacking of Piezo-ceramics, measuring and tuning of the transducer element / hydrophones, Post Vulcanisation Bonding machines, etc.

The facility is expected to generate an annual turnover of Rs.75-80 Crores in the initial years and up to the tune of Rs.200 Crores by 2026. The Transducer is a part of the Naval equipment, which BEL has been manufacturing and supplying since four decades with technology from NPOL (DRDO).

BEL Oxygen Concentrators: BEL is manufacturing 30,000 numbers of 5LPM and 10LPM Oxygen Concentrators for ONGC with indigenous technology from BPL Medical under the PM Cares initiative.

An oxygen concentrator works by filtering and concentrating oxygen molecules from the ambient air to provide patients with 90% to 95% pure oxygen. The BEL-made Oxygen concentrator, with dual flow output, is used for therapeutic requirements of patients with heart problems, respiratory diseases, brain fatigue, athletics fatigue or plateau hypoxia. The Oxygen Concentrator is meant to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and also to be used for Oxygen Scarcity Management and providing an industrial eco system for medical devices.

The BEL Oxygen Concentrator, which will be delivered in 4-5 months’ time, is expected to generate a turnover of Rs. 184 Crores for BEL in 2021-22.

Navratna Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) received three Governance Now Awards: for Nation Building, HR Excellence and Digital Security; and Mr K M Shivakumaran, Director (HR), BEL received the HR Leadership Award. The awards were presented by Dr Kiran Bedi at the 8 th Governance Now PSU Awards ceremony held virtually on Thursday, July 29, 2021. All four awards were received by Mr K M Shivakumaran, Director (HR), BEL. The Governance Now Awards recognise the efforts of Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) that have been key to the country’s growth.

Mr K M Shivakumaran, Director (HR), BEL, received the HR Leadership Award for being a dynamic and visionary HR leader. His rich and varied experience as a HR professional has helped in transforming the HR function to be an enabler in business. He has been instrumental in adopting and implementing new HR policies. He takes keen interest in the well-being of employees and their families.

BEL received the Award for Nation Building for supporting the Government’s fight against Covid 19 by manufacturing and supplying 30,000 indigenous ICU ventilators in record time. BEL is proud to have created a capable ecosystem for manufacturing medical grade equipment indigenously and addressing the healthcare needs of our nation in a timely manner. This a true example of Make in India and Atmanirbhar Bharat.

The HR Excellence Award was given for BEL achieving People Capability Maturity Model (PCMM) Level 3, being an excellent employer with positive leadership and management, having integrated ethical culture, clear human resources policy that creates a stimulating and supportive workplace, where employees are engaged with company values and strategic goals with excellence in staff retention and development. There are structured executive development programmes in place as well as reskilling / repositioning of human resources in accordance with new technological implementations or policy changes or business diversification. BEL empowers women and provides a good work-life balance.

The Award for Digital Security recognised BEL setting up Internet Security Operations Centre (SOC) to protect information and data from unauthorized people.

The Indian Navy and BEL signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on June 29, 2021, at the Integrated Headquarters, Ministry of Defence (Navy), New Delhi, for creation of a joint Technology Incubation Forum (TIF).

The Technology Incubation Forum reflects the joint vision of Indian Navy and BEL towards innovative and creative thinking and fostering development of emerging technologies. The broad charter of the TIF includes technology development in the domain of Weapons & Sensors, Information Technology and Emerging Technologies such as Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Quantum Computing, Autonomous Platforms/ Robotics, Image Processing and Cognitive Radio. The TIF will spearhead mission mode development of deployable products under the Government’s ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ initiative with involvement of industry, academia and start-ups.