December 20, 2023: Two captains of industry in India’s lead battery manufacturing and recycling sectors have received distinguished service awards.

Rakesh Malhotra, founder chairman of Luminous Power Technologies and Rajat Agrawal, MD of Gravita India, received the awards during the India Lead Zinc Development Association’s (ILZDA) International Conference on Lead & Lead Batteries annual conference, held on December 7 and 8 in New Delhi.

ILZDA executive director L Pugazhenthy, best known throughout the industry as Pug, told Batteries International the awards, which recognized highly successful entrepreneurs, also served to encourage the industry’s next generation of leaders and to motivate battery-related start-up companies.

About 200 delegates took part in this year’s conference, for which there were more than 30 technical presentations.

Photo, from left: ILZDA executive director Pug, Mark Stevenson, Rakesh Malhotra and ILA managing director Andy Bush.