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{{Short description|Indian technocrat}}
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| name = Nalini Ranjan Mohanty
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1944|11|8}}
| birth_place = [[Odisha]], India
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| occupation = Bureaucrat, Technocrat
| yearsactive = Since 1965
| known for = [[Public sector]] management
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]]<br>Ruchi Prativa Samman
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'''Nalini Ranjan Mohanty''' is a retired [[IOFS]] officer and former Chairman & Managing Director of the [[Hindustan Aeronautics Limited]] (HAL).<ref name="'MiG man' Mohanty is next HAL chairman">{{cite web | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/MiG-man-Mohanty-is-next-HAL-chairman/articleshow/472805949.cms | title='MiG man' Mohanty is next HAL chairman | publisher=Times of India | date=13 August 2001 | access-date=24 November 2015}}</ref> He is a former president of the [[Aeronautical Society of India]] (ASI) and has been the chairman and managing director of [[Textron]] India.<ref name="Nalini Ranjan Mohanty BE">{{cite web | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=13226639&privcapId=20342697 | title=Nalini Ranjan Mohanty BE | publisher=Bloomberg | date=2015 | access-date=24 November 2015}}</ref> A Fellow of the [[Aeronautical Society of India|ASI]] and the [[Institution of Engineers (India)]], Mohanty received the ''Ruchi Prativa Samman'' in 2003.<ref name="Ruchi Prativa Samman">{{cite web | url=http://www.ruchifoodline.com/Images/Prativa%20Samman%20to%20Eminent%20Persons.doc | title=Ruchi Prativa Samman | publisher=Ruchi Food Line | date=2015 | access-date=24 November 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090730195352/http://ruchifoodline.com/Images/Prativa%20Samman%20to%20Eminent%20Persons.doc | archive-date=30 July 2009 }}</ref> The Government of India awarded him the fourth-highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]], in 2004, for his contributions to Indian industrial sector.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=21 July 2015 | archive-date=15 October 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref>

== Biography ==
Mohanty was born on 8 November 1944 in the Indian state of [[Odisha]], joined the Regional Engineering College, Rourkela (present day [[National Institute of Technology, Rourkela|National Institute of Technology]]) from where he graduated in mechanical engineering (BTech Hons) in 1965.<ref name="Nalini Ranjan Mohanty Profile Page">{{cite web | url=http://alumni.nitrkl.ac.in/index.php/cb-profile/userprofile/nalini_mohanty | title=Nalini Ranjan Mohanty Profile Page | publisher=National Institute of Technology, Rourkela Alumni | date=2015 | access-date=24 November 2015}}</ref> The same year, he joined NIT as a member of faculty and, later, resigned from there to join the [[Indian Ordnance Factories Service]] (IOFS) <ref name="'MiG man' Mohanty is next HAL chairman" /> after securing the second rank in the All India Engineering Services Examination,.<ref name="Nalini Ranjan Mohanty BE" /> As an IOFS officer, he worked in several ordnance factories in India including [[Gun Carriage Factory Jabalpur|Gun Carriage Factory, Jabalpur]] and the [[Heavy Vehicles Factory]], Avadi, and, in 1971, joined [[Hindustan Aeronautics Limited]] where he rose through ranks to become its chairman in 2001, the second civilian to hold the post.<ref name="'MiG man' Mohanty is next HAL chairman" /> Three years later, he superannuated from HAL and, in 2007, joined [[Textron]] India, the Indian subsidiary of the American conglomerate and the parent company of [[Bell Helicopters]] and [[Cessna Aircraft Company|Cessna Aircraft]].<ref name="Textron Names N.R. Mohanty Chairman and Managing Director for India">{{cite web | url=http://investor.textron.com/newsroom/news-releases/press-release-details/2007/Textron-Names-NR-Mohanty-Chairman-and-Managing-Director-for-India/default.aspx | title=Textron Names N.R. Mohanty Chairman and Managing Director for India | publisher=Investor.textron.com | date=1 May 2007 | access-date=24 November 2015}}</ref>

Mohanty has served in many [[Public sector undertakings in India]] such as [[Kudremukh Iron Ore Company]], [[Mahanadi Coalfields]], [[Dynamatic Technologies]], [[National Aluminium Company]], [[Bharat Earth Movers]] and Sankhya Infotech in the capacity of non-executive director.<ref name="Nalini Ranjan Mohanty BE" /> He has chaired two joint ventures, the Indo-Russian Aviation Limited and the [[British Aerospace]]-Hindustan Aeronautics Software Limited.<ref name="Textron's India arm headed by Mohanty">{{cite web | url=http://www.indianewengland.com/ME2/Audiences/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=77AD4400258B41139947336A70D7593A&AudID=182310D47902439AA847170BE1DBB538 | title=Textron's India arm headed by Mohanty | publisher=India New England | date=2 August 2007 | access-date=24 November 2015}}</ref> He was a member of the ''Kelkar Committee'', headed by [[Vijay Kelkar]], which examined the private sector participation in defence production,<ref name="Kelkar Committee submits report on defence acquisition">{{cite web | url=https://www.geod.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Kelkar-Committee-submits-report-on-defence-acquisition.pdf | title=Kelkar Committee submits report on defence acquisition | publisher=Geod | date=2015 | access-date=24 November 2015}}</ref> and served the ''Society of Defence Technologists'' (SODET) as its chairman.<ref name="Nalini Ranjan Mohanty BE" /> He is a former vice president of the [[Aeronautical Society of India]] (ASI) and is a Fellow of the Society. He is also a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India).<ref name="Nalini Ranjan Mohanty BE" /> He received ''Ruchi Prativa Samman'' in 2003<ref name="Ruchi Prativa Samman" /> and the Government of India included him in the 2004 [[Indian honours system|Republic Day Honours]] list for the civilian award of the [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Padma Awards" />

== See also ==
* [[Indian Ordnance Factories Service]]
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== References ==
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{{2000s Padma Shri Award Recipients in Science & Engineering}}
{{Padma Award winners of Odisha}}

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