Appointment of Director, NAeL

Shri Puneet Kumar, Additional General Manager (Marketing, Projects & CS) , Transport Aircraft Division, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Kanpur has been nominated as Director on the Board of Naini Aerospace Limited effective from July 1, 2022. Shri Puneet Kumar is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Institute of Engineering & Technology, Lucknow. He holds post graduate degree of M. E. in Analysis and Design of process equipments from NIT, Allahabad. He also holds a Post-Graduation Diploma in Business Management from Management Development Institute, Gurgaon. He has completed Leadership Development Program at IIM, Ahmedabad. He is a Project Management Professional (PMP), certified by PMI, USA.

He joined Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) as a Design Trainee in July 1996 and has been associated with HAL for over 26 years. He worked in various positions at Transport Aircraft Division, Kanpur. He possesses wide experience in areas of aircraft assembly, MRO and test flight operations. He has been instrumental in revival of 5 prolonged AOG HS-748 aircraft of IAF. He headed IT and Quality Control departments also and led several projects for improvements. A state-of-the-art Data Centre was successfully installed under his leadership.

Under his headship, TAD became first division of HAL to acquire AS9100 D certification. He was also instrumental in getting approval of BARC for its NDT facilities for the first time. Under his leadership, civil version of HAL Do-228-201 aircraft was certified by DGCA for operations in India. He played a key role in evolving a methodology for leasing of Civil Do 228 aircraft. The aircraft are deployed in the state of Arunachal Pradesh