Board of Directors
Shri Debashish Banerjee, Director (HR)
With Additional Charge of Chairman & Managing Director
Shri Debashish Banerjee, is a Mechanical Engineer with Post Graduate qualification in Maintenance Management (M.Tech) and Social Science (M.Phil). He has done course on Management of Technologist from IIM, Bangalore and Post Graduate Diploma in Public Administration from Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi. He has experience in Defence Production Industry for more than 33 years. He joined the Indian Ordnance Factories Services through UPSC (Engineering Services) Examination, as Assistant Works Manager in the year 1989 at Ordnance Factory Dum Dum situated at West Bengal. During his journey of over 3 decades, he has worked in Ammunition & Explosive Group, Weapon Group, Armoured Vehicle Group of Factories. During this journey he worked at different levels at various production units almost in every area i.e Production, Planning, Quality Control, Engineering, Maintenance, Administration, Provision & Information Technology.
Shri Banerjee worked as General Manager of Engine Factory Avadi from September, 2020 to September 2021. This Factory is engaged in production of engine for Tank T-72, Tank T-90 and BMP II Vehicle. During this period the factory achieved 100% indigenization of its input components.
Shri Banerjee, took over as the first Director/HR of newly created Defence Public Sector Enterprise, Munitions India Limited, Pune on 1st October, 2021.
Shri Debashish Banerjee, took over the Additional Charge of CMD of Munitions India Limited (MIL) Pune on 1st March 2024. With taking over the additional charge of CMD of MIL, Shri Debashish Banerjee from Ordnance Factories fraternity head one of India’s most valuable Defence Public Sector Enterprises. The company comprising of 12 Ordnance Factories, is engaged in production of various types of ammunition and explosives.
Prakash Agarwala, Director/Finance & CFO,
With Additional Charge of Director/Operations
Shri Prakash Agarwala is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Kurukshetra & MBA from IIM, Kolkata. He is an IOFS officer of 1990 batch.
After completion of his training at NADP, Ambajhari, Nagpur, he joined at erstwhile Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) in 1992, where a new division of Marketing & Export was being set up. He has a vast experience of Marketing, Export and International Cooperation during his long stint at erstwhile OFB. He was decorated with the prestigious “Ayudh Bhushan” Award also during this period.
He has also worked in the areas of Material Management, Production Planning, Quality Control etc. at the factory level at Ordnance Equipment Factory, Kanpur and thereafter at OEF Headquarters, Kanpur.
He served at erstwhile OFB, Kolkata again as Deputy Director General of Marketing & Export for three years till 2021 before joining the newly created DPSU, Munitions India Limited (MIL) at Pune, as General Manager, Business Development & Finance.
He has a wide international exposure having visited around 20 countries for Defence Export promotion and International cooperation.
Shri Prakash Agarwala, took over as Director/Finance at MIL on 16th June, 2022. He is also the Chief Finance Officer (CFO) of MIL.
Shri Prakash Agarwala, took over as Additional Charge of Director/Operations at MIL on 1st March, 2024.
Shri Anurag Bajpai
Government Nominee Director
Shri Anurag Bajpai belongs to 1994 batch of Indian Forest Service. He is Post Graduate in Economics, Financial Management and Mass Communication. He has worked in Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Rome on a Project for 3 months. He has travelled across 32 countries and gained experience in policy planning and administration.
In Govt. of India, Shri. Anurag Bajpai was instrumental in bringing reforms in the process of forestry clearance within the legal framework and formulated first Wind Energy Policy of India. He has been instrumental in Skill Development, Education, Infrastructure Development and Women Empowerment. He served as Asstt. Inspector General of Forest, Dy. Secretary and Director in M/o Environment, Forest & Climate Change, M/o Tribal Affairs and M/o Minority Affairs respectively in his previous terms.
In his parent cadre i.e. Manipur, he has held various senior positions right from Divisional Forest Officer onwards and gained administrative experience. He served in Forest & Environment Department and Deptt. of Textiles, Commerce and Industries. Before joining the Deptt of Defence Production in MoD, Govt. of India as Joint Secretary, he was Addl. Principal Chief Conservator of Forests in Forest Department and CEO of Mission for Economic Empowerment of Traditional Artisan & Craftsmen (MEETAC) in Deptt. of Commerce and Industries in Manipur