Shri Gurdeep Singh

Shri Gurdeep Singh, DIN: 00307037, aged 53 years, is a Mechanical Engineer. He has more than three decades of experience in power generation sector. He started his career with NTPC Limited and has worked at various levels both in Indian and Multi-national Companies namely Powergen, CLP, IDFC, CESC and AES. He has worked in different areas of Power Sector ranging from business development, projects and operations.

Prior to joining NTPC, Shri Singh was Managing Director, Gujarat State Electricity Corporation Limited.

Shri S. Roy

Shri Saptarshi Roy has taken over the charge as Director (HR), NTPC with effect from forenoon of 1^st November 2016.

Shri Saptarshi Roy (56 years) is graduate in Electrical Engg.. He has had a career spanning over 36 years of outstanding contribution in the Company in various positions including those of Regional Executive Director (North) and ER-I Regions as well as Executive Director (Corporate Planning) besides that of Head of HR at Projects and Corporate Office. He made major contributions in the HR framework of the Company by introducing various innovative ideas like securing the position of NTPC as the Best Company to work for since 2008.

He also played a critical role as HR Head in managing transition and people integration issues during acquisition of old assets and turning them around into successful ventures. He acted as catalyst in ensuring healthy and productive employee relations climate conducive for growth. He has been actively involved in negotiating long term wage settlement in the past.

As Director (HR), he is overall responsible for the activities relating to Human Resource Management of NTPC.

Shri A.K. Gupta

Shri Anand Kumar Gupta (DIN: 07269906) (aged 56 years) is a graduate in Electrical Engineering from Moti Lal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad. He has a career spanning over 36 years of outstanding contribution in the Company in various positions including those of Executive Director – incharge of Commercial and Executive Director (Engineering). He also headed Business Development Department of NTPC as well as headed plant operations and maintenance at station. He made major contributions in development of international business for NTPC, evolving commercial strategies for changing business scenario, development of new projects and improving plant operations.

As Director (Commercial), he will be responsible for the activities relating to Commercial, International and Domestic Business development and Consultancy business of NTPC.

Shri Prakash Tiwari

Shri Prakash Tiwari, (DIN: 08003157) (aged about 58 years), Director (Operations) NTPC, is a Mechanical Engineering Graduate from NIT Raipur. He joined NTPC as 6th batch Executive Trainee in 1981. He has an illustrious career spanning over 37 years of outstanding contribution in management of large size plants in the area of power plant operation & maintenance and in project construction as a Professional Manager, Strategic Planner and a Business Leader. He has led several initiatives for achieving operational excellence of Plants.

Shri Tiwari’s experience in power sector includes more than 7 years at senior management level as a “Business Unit Head” of NTPC Stations i.e Unchahar, Korba and Solapur. Prior to elevation to the post of Director (Operations), he was working as ED (Operations) & was looking after all activities related to operation of NTPC power plants.

Shri Tiwari is also Part-Time Director on the Board of NTPC Tamil Nadu Energy Company Ltd. (NTECL) and Kanti Bijlee Utpadan Nigam Ltd. (KBUNL).

As Director (Operations), NTPC, he shall be responsible for overall planning for smooth & safe operation of all NTPC power generating stations of more than 51000 MW capacity and also for fuel security & environment compliance of all Power Plants.

Shri A.K. Gautam

Shri Anil Kumar Gautam is a Graduate in Commerce and a fellow member of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India. He is also a Law Graduate. He joined NTPC in the year 1984. He has over 34 years of rich experience in various aspects of Finance & Accounts in Power Sector including resource mobilization from domestic and international markets, long-term financial planning, taxation, budgeting, investment appraisals, investors services and regulatory affairs. He was also appointed as Chief Financial Officer w.e.f. 1st August 2019.

Shri Vivek Kumar Dewangan

Shri Vivek Kumar Dewangan [aged 51 years], [DIN:01377212], an Indian Administrative Service Officer of Manipur Cadre [1993 Batch], is B.E. in Electronics from NIT, Bhopal and P.G. in Optoelectronics & Optical Communication from IIT, Delhi. During his illustrious career of 25 years as IAS officer, he has held various administrative positions in the areas of Finance, Power/ Energy, Elections/ Law & Justice, Commerce & Industries, Minister’s Office [Corporate Affairs/Agriculture & Food Processing Industries], Education/Human Resource Development, Sericulture/Agriculture & Cooperation, Economic Affairs, Economics & Statistics, Petroleum & Natural Gas, District Administration [Surguja & Raipur District in Chattisgarh and Senapati District in Manipur], Divisional Admn.

Shri Ashish Upadhyaya

Shri Ashish Upadhyaya (DIN: 06855349) (aged 55 years) IAS, Additional Secretary & F A , Ministry of Power, Govt. of India joined as a Part-time Official Director on the Board of NTPC on 22.01.2020. Shri Upadhyaya is an IAS Officer of 1989 Batch belonging to Madhya Pradesh cadre. Having done his post-graduation in History from St. John College, Agra, he joined the civil services and has served for more than 31 years in various capacities in the State Government of M.P. including tenure in coal bearing areas of Anuppur, Shahdol and Umaria as the Addl. District Collector. He has been Collector for more than 5 years in 3 districts of M.P. & Chhattisgarh. Shri Upadhyaya has served at the State level as Secretary and Principal Secretary of various departments including Home, Higher Education and Finance for many years. As Joint Secretary, Coal, he has been instrumental in developing systems by application of space technology for curbing the menace of illegal mining. He has academic bent of mind and while being in the service, he continued his pursuit of education and completed post-graduation in Economics and L.L.B. He also did his Master’s degree in Public Administration from Maxwell School of Citizenship, Syracuse University in U.S.A. Shri Upadhyaya has been working as Additional Secretary & FA, Ministry of Power since 14th November 2019.

Shri M.P. Singh

Shri M.P. Singh, (DIN:07937931), aged 62 years is M.Com and Chartered Accountant. He has wide and varied experience since 1988 in the field of accountancy, financial review and analyser.

Shri M.P. Singh does not hold any share in NTPC and is not having any inter-se relationship with any of the Directors of the Company.

Shri P.K. Deb

Shri Pradeep Kumar Deb, IAS (DIN: 03424714), aged 64 years, has a Master Degree in Physics from St. Stephens College, Delhi University. He started his career as a Probationary officer in the State Bank of India before switching to the Indian Administrative Service in 1977. In his 37 years as an IAS officer, he had held a number of posts of crucial importance in the State of Rajasthan and in Government of India in diverse areas like Finance and Taxation, Human Resources, Agriculture and Irrigation, Home Affairs among others, before retiring as Secretary, Department of Sports in the Government of India in 2013. Prior to this posting, he was Additional Chief Secretary, Home Affairs of the Government of Rajasthan. Shri Deb considers Finance and Human Resource Development as his areas of special interest.

Shri Pradeep Kumar Deb does not hold any share in NTPC and is not having any inter-se relationship with any of the Directors of the Company.

Shri Shashi Shekhar

Shri Shashi Shekhar, IAS (DIN: 07147358), aged 61 years, is B.Sc (Geology) Hons. He retired as Secretary of Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation. Prior to this, he was Additional Secretary of Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. He served as the Managing Director of Tamil Nadu Minerals Limited, Tamil Nadu Transport Development Finance Corporation, Tamil Nadu Urban Development Fund and Tamil Nadu Urban Infrastructure Financial Services Limited. He had held various senior positions in the State as well as the Central Governments. He also served as a Finance Commissioner to raise extra budgetary resources from the market. He was a Director and later Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Power from 1998 to 2003, during which period he served as a Director General of Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) in charge. He served as a Whole- Time Director of PTC India Ltd. from January 25, 2008 to January 17, 2011. He served as a Director of Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. He served as a Non-Executive Director of Indian Energy Exchange Limited. He has presented papers on sustainable power development at various international conferences.

Shri Shashi Shekhar holds 690 shares in NTPC and is not having any inter-se relationship with any of the Directors of the Company.

Shri Subhash Joshi

Shri Subhash Joshi, IPS (DIN: 07946219), aged 63 years, is B.Sc. (Hons.) in Mathematics and has graduate Diploma in Business from Curtin University, Perth Australia. He joined Indian Police Service in 1976 and retired in 2014. He served as DG, Border Security Force (BSF), DG, National Security Guard (NSG), Special DG, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Director General of Police, Uttarakhand, Additional DG, Intelligence/ Security, Uttarakhand and many other posts of Police. His area of expertise includes Human Resouce Management, Vigilance and anti-corruption, Training and Development, Public Order Management, Border Management, Intelligence and Security, General Adminstration, Public Grievance Redressal and Law.

Shri Subhash Joshi does not hold any share in NTPC and is not having any inter-se relationship with any of the Directors of the Company.

Shri Vinod Kumar

Shri Vinod Kumar, IFS (DIN: 00955992), aged 61 years, graduated in 1975 with honours in Botany and obtained his Masters Degree in Botany from Banaras Hindu University in 1977. He superannuated from the Indian Forest Service on 30th April 2016 as the Director of Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy(IGNFA) with experience of achievements over 38 years of Administration, Forest Management, Policy Analysis, Planning, Corporate Management, Tribal Development and Community Empowerment, Manpower Planning and Capacity Building with innovative contributions at Odisha State in field of Governance and Capacity Building. He had served both the Odisha Government as well as the Union Government in various capacities. His area of expertise includes Forest Governance, Biodiversity Management, Community Development & Livelihoods, Capacity Building.

Shri Vinod Kumar holds 500 shares in NTPC and is not having any inter-se relationship with any of the Directors of the Company.

Dr. K.P.K Pillay

Dr. K.P. Kylasanatha Pillay [aged 62 years], [DIN:08189583], a Senior Advocate in Supreme Court is a post graduate in English, post graduate in History and LL.M. He did Part-time research in the School of Legal Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi and obtained Ph.D.in law. He started practice of law in the District and Subordinate Courts of Thiruvananthapuram in 1987 and later shifted to High Court of Kerala at Ernakulam in 1990. Subsequently he shifted practice to Delhi in 2005. Presently, he appears mainly before the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India. He had worked as Part-time and visiting faculty of the Law Colleges of different Universities in Kerala at different periods of time. He had been a resource person for the training programme of Judicial Officers in National Judicial Academy, Bhopal. Now, he is an approved Guide for Ph. D. in the National University for Advanced Legal Studies in Kochi and two Assistant Professors are doing research under him. He was elected to the Bar Council of Kerala twice and for one term, he was the Vice-Chairman of the Bar Council of Kerala.

He was designated as a Senior Advocate by the Hon’ble High Court of Kerala in 2009. As a lawyer, he had been attending matters relating to Civil, Criminal, Constitutional and Corporate jurisdiction. He had conducted a number of Public Interest Litigations before the Hon’ble High Court of Kerala and Hon’ble Supreme Court of India. In the Supreme Court, he had been on the panel of lawyers of the National Textile Corporation. He had also been in the Senior Panel of Central Government and Maharashtra Government in the Supreme Court. He was also actively involved in socio-political organisations and have held positions of responsibility.

Dr. Bhim Singh

Dr. Bhim Singh, [aged 62 years], [DIN: 08189580], is B.E. (Electrical) from the University of Roorkee, UP, M.Tech. (Power Apparatus & Systems) and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. In 1983, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Roorkee (Now IIT Roorkee), as a Lecturer. He became a Reader there in 1988. In December 1990, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi, India, as an Assistant Professor, where he has become an Associate Professor in 1994 and a Professor in 1997. He has been ABB Chair Professor from September 2007 to September 2012. He has also been CEA Chair Professor from October 2012 to September 2017. He has been Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi from July 2014 to August 2016. Since, August 2016, he is the Dean, Academics at IIT Delhi. He is JC Bose Fellow of DST, Government of India since December 2015.

Prof. Singh has guided 70 Ph.D. dissertations, and 167 M.E./M.Tech./M.S.(R) theses. He has been filed 33 patents. He has executed more than eighty sponsored and consultancy projects. He has co-authored a text book on power quality: Power Quality Problems and Mitigation Techniques published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 2015.

His areas of interest include solar PV grid interface systems, microgrids, power quality monitoring and mitigation, solar PV water pumping systems, improved power quality AC-DC converters, power electronics, electrical machines, drives, flexible alternating transmission systems, and high voltage direct current systems.

He has received Khosla Research Prize of University of Roorkee in the year 1991. He is recipient of JC Bose and Bimal K Bose awards of The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) for his contribution in the field of Power Electronics. He is also a recipient of Maharashtra State National Award of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) in recognition of his outstanding research work in the area of Power Quality. He has received PES Delhi Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award for the year 2006. Professor Singh has received Khosla National Research Award of IIT Roorkee in the year 2013. He is a recipient of Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Award-2014 in the field of Engineering including Energy & Aerospace. Professor Singh has received IEEE PES Nari Hingorani Custom Power Award-2017. He is also a recipient of “Faculty Research Award as a Most Outstanding Researcher” in the field of Engineering-2018 of Careers-360, India.

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