VASCO: Cmde (retd) B B Nagpal took over as chairman and managing director of Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) on Saturday from RAdm Shekhar Mital, who retired on Friday. Mital was the CMD of GSL for 4 years and 10 months.
Cmde Nagapal is an alumnus of Sainik School Bhubaneswar, IIT Delhi and Naval War College, St Petersburg, Russia. He has more than 32 years of service and experience in the Indian Navy as a Naval Architecture Officer.
He has vast experience in large shipbuilding projects like Destroyers and Corvettes and has been project director for design of many front-line warships in the Navy. He was also the Principal Director of Naval Design at IHQ MoD (N), besides other appointments at Naval Dockyards and Shipbuilding yards providing wide spectrum of experience in refits and shipbuilding.
