Bharat Electronics has announced that M V Gowtama has taken charge as the Chairman and Managing Director of BEL on November 8, 2016.
He was initially posted to the D&E-Radar Division, where he contributed to the development of Receiver sub-system of Cyclone Warning Radar.
In about three-and-half years, his team was able to design, develop, manufacture, deliver and commission the first cyclone warning radar at Paradip in Odisha for which the team won an R&D award. He first joined BEL at its Ghaziabad unit in January 1983, as Probationary Engineer, a release said.