GRSE Bids Farewell to CMD Rear Admiral VK Saxena
Kolkata, March 22: Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd., (GRSE), a Mini Ratna Category 1 Defence PSU and a leading warship building company of India, bid farewell to CMD Rear Admiral VK Saxena, IN (Retd.) on 28 Feb 2022.
After an illustrious career spanning over three decades in the Indian Navy, Rear Admiral VK Saxena, took over as Chairman and Managing Director of GRSE on 01 Mar 17. Right from day one Admiral VK Saxena’s leadership as CMD GRSE has been marked by remarkable adroitness in making his vision a reality while putting people first and celebrating targets together.
It was in his tenure that GRSE achieved the distinction of delivering 15 warships in a short span of 60 months. Under the dynamic leadership of Admiral VK Saxena, GRSE also created history by delivering the “100th Warship”, a Landing Craft Utility, L-56 on March 30, 2019, to the Indian Navy. With this achievement, the GRSE became the first Indian Shipyard to build and deliver 100 warships to our Maritime Forces.
It is because of his insight, and ability to think out of the box, that GRSE has clinched highly coveted deals. The Shipyard is currently executing 06 prestigious projects of 23 ships including ships for exports.
Thanks to Rear Admiral Saxena’s vision on raising the bar higher in the sphere of infrastructure enhancement, GRSE is now positioned to construct 20 ships concurrently using state of the art Advanced Modular Integrated Shipbuilding Technology and modernisation of facilities in all three ship production locations.
With Admiral VK Saxena’s focused approach towards capacity enhancement GRSE has remained committed towards adopting AI enabled operations in Design, Production and Supply Chain Management. Today the DPSU is all set for major transformation powered by knowledge, skill, operational capabilities, brand equity, and a dedicated Team.
His striking leadership qualities have been duly recognised not only by the people he worked with but also by Awards conferred to him in person. It was a proud moment when on 15 Jul 21 Admiral V. K. Saxena was conferred with ‘CEO of the Year’, award at Asian Leadership Awards 2021. Being recognized as one of the “Next Fortune 500 Companies of India” is another distinguished laurel received by GRSE recently.
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