NEW DELHI: Bengaluru-based Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) employees have a new uniform from Saturday (June 1). It was a move towards “envisioning growth and modernisation”, said the central PSU on Saturday. The new uniforms were unveiled by BEL Chairman and Managing Director Bhanu Prakash Srivastava and senior officials of the company during a business workshop held at Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh. 

BEL partnered with the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Bengaluru, to redesign and modernise its uniforms for over 10,000 male and female employees across the country.

According to the PSU, this uniform revision, the first in 37 years, aims “to present to the world a modern and professional image of BEL, evolving with the times while maintaining its core values and identity.”

The old BEL uniform for both men and women in fawn and brown colour has given way to new colour schemes. The new uniform for men would be shirts, combining Pantone shades of “Surf the Web blue” and “Nimbus Cloud grey” and trousers in “Mood Indigo” shade. Women employees have been given options, including trousers with tops, sarees and blouses, and salwars, all in a combination of “Mood Indigo” and “Mirage Grey”, along with four other Pantone shades.

The uniforms may also have the customised tree of life and peacock motifs with circuits to showcase BEL’s presence in the electronic industry.