New Director for HAL- The Press Note received from Corporate Office of HAL

N.C. Agarwal is HAL’s new Director Design & Development

Bangalore, May 1 (2008): Mr Naresh Chandra Agarwal is HAL’s new Director Design and Development. He assumed office on May 1, 2008 following the superannuation of Mr M.S. Nadgir.

“With so many design projects, both in fixed and rotary wing, my focus will be on consolidation, to effectively manage and organise teams to move ahead in all projects. The consolidation mode will also ensure meeting time schedules,” Mr Agarwal said, soon after assuming office.

Mr Agarwal did his graduation in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1972 and joined HAL as a Design Trainee in the 3rd batch. He joined the R&D Centre of HAL, Lucknow, as Aeronautical Engineer in February 1974 and spent 27 years in the design and development of aerospace systems and equipment.

His specialisation has been in Hydraulics, Flight Control & Fuel System. He was promoted as AGM (D) in July 2001 and shifted to ARDC, Bangalore, where he headed Flight Control System, Armament & Seats and Airworthiness Groups. He also looked after Quality Control and P&A Depts. He was a member of the core team which achieved the first flight of the IJT in 20 months. He was also associated with LCA project and Jaguar upgrades.

He was awarded the Biren Roy Trust Award in 1999 by AeSI for developing a high speed hydraulic pump for aerospace and strategic applications, and was conferred the R&D Innovation Award (2003) by the Society of Defence Technologists in its inception year.

Mr Agarwal was elevated as GM (Accessories Division, Lucknow) in July 2005 at a critical phase when new projects were taking off: i.e., accessories for Su-30, LCA and IJT were to be produced.