Vinay Kulkarni is now Director General in Military Engineer Service

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, May 19

Vinay Kulkarni, a 1982 batch officer of the Indian Defence Service of Engineers (IDSE), has been promoted as Director General (Personnel) in the Military Engineers Service — the most senior position for civilian officers.

He is currently posted as Additional Director General (North-East). He will take over from Devendra Kumar, who retires this month. Director General (Personnel)is responsible for human resource management in the MES, which has a large civilian component, and forms part of the Engineer-in-Chief’s Branch at Army Headquarters.

A civil engineer by profession, Kulkarni has held a host of important executive and staff appointments in his 35-year-old career, including the quasi judicial post of sole arbitrator for the MES, which is said to be the country’s largest construction agency.