Nalini Ranjan Mohanty is an Indian bureaucrat and former Chairman & Managing Director of the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited.
Background
Mohanty was born on 8 November 1944 in the Indian state of Odisha, joined the Regional Engineering College, Rourkela (present day National Institute of Technology) from where he graduated in mechanical engineering (Bachelor of Technology Honours) in 1965.
Education
National Institute of Technology, Rourkela.
Career
He is a former president of the Aeronautical Society of India (Applied Science International) and has been the chairman and managing director of Textron India. A Fellow of the Applied Science International and the Institution of Engineers (India), Mohanty received the Ruchi Prativa Samman in 2003. As an IOFS officer, he worked in several ordnance factories in India including Gun Carriage Factory, Jabalpur and the Heavy Vehicles Factory, Avadi, and, in 1971, joined Hindustan Aeronautics Limited where he rose through ranks to become its chairman in 2001, the second civilian to hold the post.
He has chaired two joint ventures, the Indo-Russian Aviation Limited and the British Aerospace-Hindustan Aeronautics Software Limited.
He is a former vice president of the Aeronautical Society of India (Applied Science International) and is a Fellow of the Society. He is also a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India).
Membership
The same year, he joined National Institute of Technology as a member of faculty and, later, resigned from there to join the Indian Ordnance Factories Service (IOFS) after securing the second rank in the All India Engineering Services Examination. He was a member of the Kelkar Committee, headed by Vijay Kelkar, which examined the private sector participation in defence production, and served the Society of Defence Technologists (SODET) as its chairman.