Indian Navy inks agreement with L&T for naval Ex-Servicemen’s recruitment

New Delhi: Indian Navy Placement Agency (INPA) and L&T Shipbuilding (LTSB), the shipbuilding arms of L&T on Thursday have entered into an agreement to explore opportunities for the recruitment of naval Ex-Servicemen at LTSB.

The Ministry of Defence said in a statement that Vice Admiral Suraj Berry, Controller of Personnel Services, Indian Navy and Ashok Kumar Khetan, Head Shipbuilding Business L&T signed the MoU in the presence of Senior Officials from the Indian Navy and L&T.

Through the MoU, INPA will identify a pool of technical Ex-Servicemen for relevant roles as per recruitment standards of L&T. The company will, in turn, enable these individuals to transition to the corporate sector through in-house assimilation and training programs.

Commenting on this occasion, Jayant D Patil, Whole Time Director (Defence & Smart Technologies) and Member of L&T Board said, "We have been trusted partner to Naval indigenisation plans since the mid-eighties having designed and developed a bouquet of Weapon Systems, Engineering Equipment and Systems, range of Control systems such as IPMS, IBS, APMS, etc., and Life Support and Logistics systems. We are delighted to formalize our partnership with the Navy through the signing of this MoU with INPA."

" This would ease and facilitate the recruitment of some of the most experienced Indian Navy professionals into L&T and enable L&T to serve the Navy better through a mutually beneficial relationship," he added.

L&T under the aegis of its diversity inclusion initiative aims to offer ex-servicemen with a technical background, opportunities in line with their qualifications, experience and attributes acquired during their service period. This diverse set of experiences, perspectives and backgrounds are crucial to the innovation and development of new ideas. This initiative of LTSB stems from the company's vision of breaking new grounds to allow diversity and inclusion to take deeper roots across all its verticals.

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