NTPC Will Get Its New CMD Very Soon

Manoj Tibrewal Aakash
New Delhi/ 21 December 2015. NTPC will get its new CMD very soon.  Five members committee interviewed as many as nine persons on Monday at Cabinet Secretariat.

The committee included Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha, DoPT Secretary Sanjay Kothari, Power Secretary P K Pujari, Renewable Energy Secretary Upendra Tripathi, and former chairman of CEA Rakesh Nath. 

The candidates interviewed were Kulamani Biswal, Director Finance, NTPC;  A K Gupta, ED, NTPC; Saptarshi Roy, ED, NTPC; Alok Tandon (IAS: 1986 UP cadre); Tarun Kapoor (IAS: 1987 HP cadre); Pravin Sinha from Tata Power Consultancy, Rajiv Sharma, CMD, Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) Limited; Aman Kumar Singh, retired IRS officer  and Gurdip Singh, a technocrat from Gujarat.  

The post of the CMD, NTPC is vacant after the retirement of Arup Roy Choudhury on August 31, 2015. Now, the final ball is in the PMO and name could be announced any moment when the PMO give its green signal.