Lt Gen RS Reen takes charges as Director General Quality Assurance

Lt Gen RS Reen takes charges as Director General Quality Assurance: Lt Gen RS Reen was appointed Director General Quality Assurance. Lt Gen Reen is a 1986-batch officer who attended the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun. He had completed his BE (Electrical) from National Institute of Technology, Srinagar, Specialisation in Radio Engineering and post-graduation in Communication Engineering from MC EME, Secunderabad. He was a senior faculty at Defence Institute of Quality Assurance, Bengaluru.

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Reen holds a Six Sigma Black Belt certification from the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata. He has done certification in Reliability Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur and is Qualified Lead Auditor in Quality Management System & Integrated Management System from Bureau Veritas, Bengaluru.

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He was Controller (Missile System) in Secunderabad and led the Senior Quality Assurance Estt., Brig at Headquarters, Directorate General of Quality Assurance (DGQA). Reen also headed the DQA(L) as Additional Director General (Electronics) at HQ DGQA, New Delhi.

About the Director General Quality Assurance

The DGQA is an inter-service organisation functioning under the Department of Defence Production in the Ministry of Defence. It is responsible for second party quality assurance of all defence stores and equipment, both imported as well as indigenous, for the Indian Army, Indian Navy (excluding Naval Armaments) and common user items for the Indian Air Force procured from private sector and public sector undertakings.