May visits JCB India plant
During the first leg of her tour of India, The UK?s Prime Minister Theresa May met 10 of the ground-breaking women engineers at JCB who are driving the change of equal opportunity employment in heavy engineering, which is traditionally a male dominated industry. Vipin Sondhi, Managing Director and CEO, JCB India, said, ?JCB was a pioneer in introducing earthmoving and construction equipment in India nearly four decades ago. Today we are transforming the way in which we recruit, by challenging the perception that manufacturing is only a male-centric career option. We actively encourage women to take up key roles in manufacturing and heavy engineering in our businesses.?

Priyanka Bansal, Divya Patsariya, and Kavita Verma, all work at JCB?s plant at Delhi. Ashwini Pingalkar, Anjitha Nair and Snehal Kulkarni are employed in JCB?s Pune factory which manufactures heavy products. Diksha Sharma, Jyoti Sen, Deepti Raghav, and Renu Ataria all work in key manufacturing roles at JCB?s newest plant in Jaipur.