New Ordnance Board chief

Kolkata, January 1

Saurabh Kumar has taken over from PK Shrivastava as Director General of Ordnance Factories (DGOF) and Chairman of Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) upon the latter’s superannuation on Monday.

Kumar, an Indian Ordnance Factory Service officer of the 1982 batch, is an M.Tech in mechanical engineering from IIT, Kanpur. An expert in the manufacture of ordnance, Kumar was on deputation to the Ministry of Defence in Delhi as Director of Planning and Coordination from 2002 to 2009. — TNS