PESB Recommends Mr BP Singh as Director-in-Charge of SAIL DSP&ISP
Strategic Research Institute
Published on :
31 Jan, 2022, 4:30 am
Public Enterprises Selection Board has recommended Mr Brijendra Pratap Singh for the post of Director in-charge, Bumpur and Durgapur Steel Plants, of Steel Authority of India Ltd. Mr BP Singh, a Mechanical Engineering graduate from ISM Dhanbad, had joined SAIL in 1989 and will retire in 2028. The current DSP CEO Mr AV Kamalakar is retiring from his post on 31 January 2022. With this, the post of director-in-charge will be created instead of CEO from February 1, 2022 at Durgapur Steel Plant. Apart from Durgapur, the new director-in-charge will also be given the responsibility of IISCO-Burnpur steel plant.
The following applicants were interviewed in the selection meeting:
Mr Arvind Kumar Singh, ED SAIL
Mr Sanjay Sharma, ED SAIL
Mr Brijendra Pratap Singh, ED SAIL
Mr Jagdish Arora, ED SAIL
Mr S Subbaraj, ED SAIL
Mr Subhash Kumar Das, ED SAIL
Mr Manoj Kumar Sinha, GM RINL
Mr Amit Raj, GM MECON Limited
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet had approved the restructuring of the board of Steel Authority of India in September 2020 giving more powers to officials directly heading steel plants. After the approval, the four posts of Chief Executive Officer of plants were elevated as functional directors. These CEOs were designated as director-in-charge of Bokaro, Rourkela, Bhilai and one director-in-charge jointly for Burnpur and Durgapur steel plants. The restructured board now consists of Chairman, Director Finance, Director Commercial, Director Technical, Project & Raw Materials, Director Personnel, Directors in-charge of integrated steel plants. The board has non-official directors as per the Companies Act 2013 and two government nominee directors.
Present Director in Charge
BSP – Mr Anirban Dasgupta, B Tech IIT BHU in Metallurgy, 1986
BSL – Mr Amarendu Prakash, B Tech BIT Sindri, 1987
RSP - Mr Amarendu Prakash. PESB has recommended Mr Atanu Bhowmik, B Tech NIT Rourkela, in December 2021
This ACC decision reversed 2011 restructuring when SAIL replaced managing directors at its five plants and appointed chief executive officers instead, to increase operational autonomy and prune the board strength. The CEOs reported to SAIL Chairman. The change reduces SAIL’s board strength to 18 from 24. First lot of CEOs that who assumed charge at the company’s five plants included
BSP - Mr Pankaj Gautam
BSL – Mr SS Mohanty
RSP – Mr SN Singh
DSP - Mr PK Bajaj
IISCO – Mr NK Jha