Rear Admiral Shekhar Mital Takes Over as CMD Goa Shipyard Limited

Rear Admiral (Retd) Shekhar Mital has assumed charge as Chairman and Managing Director of the Goa Shipyard Ltd (GSL) on February 1, 2014. He is B.Tech, M.Tech from IIT, Kharagpur and M.Phil in Defence Studies from Naval Defence College, New Delhi.

The various senior positions he has held in his long and distinguished career with the Indian Navy, have provided, Rear Admiral Mital with a deep and well rounded understanding of the very many facets of shipbuilding. This has been further aided by the practical ground realities of seafaring, garnered in nine years of sea experience in frontline warships of the Indian Navy, which include Taragiri, Rana, Ranvijay, Commissioning Electrical Officer of Delhi and Fleet Electrical Officer of the Western Fleet.

As part of the DND (SSG), he has led design, construction and delivery of two major frigates for the Navy. He also played a major role in fitment of new-generation missile and EW system and integration of weapons and systems onboard frigates. Rear Admiral Mital has to his credit execution of large-scale computerisation of Naval Dockyard, Mumbai, and has also been associated with construction and design of submarines as DGND (SDG). He has worked for over 12 years at IHQ/MoD and is well versed with MoD, shipbuilding, design and repairs procedures.

He has also served as CSO (Tech) of the Eastern Naval Command, one of the two operational commands of the Navy with distinction. Rear Admiral Shekhar Mital is a recipient of Nao Sena Medal for distinguished service.

Under his dynamic and professional leadership, GSL is poised for major leap ahead in design and construction of complex platforms, including weapon intensive ships.