M.S Velpari has been appointed as director of operations at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). He is replacing Sunil Kumar who superannuated on July 31, 2019. Velpari previously held the position of chief of project at LCA-Tejas Division.
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Velpari holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai, and did his masters from IIT Madras in aircraft production engineering. He joined HAL in 1985 as management trainee (20th batch). He gained experience in the areas of manufacturing, assembly, design, product support, customer support, indigenisation and other management functions while serving at LCA-Tejas, aircraft, foundry and forge divisions in Bengaluru and aircraft division at Nashik.
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Velpari was instrumental in sustained growth of LCA production from initial two in FY 2015-16 to eight in FY 2018-19. He took path-breaking steps with the strategic outsourcing of structural assemblies of LCA-Tejas, which is poised to grow further. He played a key role in implementing the task of indigenisation of 1,850 types of castings, forgings, rolled rings and rubber products at F&F division.
