Shri Dillip Kumar Patel

Mr. Dillip Kumar Patel, [aged 57 years], [DIN:08695490] has taken charge as Director (HR), NTPC on 1st April 2020. He started his career in NTPC way back in 1986 as an En-gineering Executive Trainee (XI batch). Mr. Patel’s ascent from his humble beginning as an Executive Trainee to the top echelons of HR function in NTPC signifies his passion, commitment and hard work. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering from NIT, Rourkela and did his Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (HR & Finance) from MDI, Gurgaon. He has also received management and leadership training inputs from ESCP-EAP (Paris, Berlin & Turin), Harvard Business School (USA), ISB Hyderabad & XLRI Jam-shedpur.

He has an illustrious career spanning over more than three decades entailing both line and HR functions. After initial exposure of working in Operation & Maintenance, he took a leap in his career and switched to core HR function in 1997. He looked after various facets of HR and subsequently moved on to become the Head of HR of Koldam, the first hydro pro-ject of NTPC. He had been Head of HR at various projects of NTPC such as NSPCL-Bhilai, Sipat, and Tanda for about 13 years. He had a short stint as Regional Head of HR of Easter Region-II before being appointed to the post of Director (HR) in NTPC.

He has undertaken various challenging assignments and has successfully managed HR functions while working at various locations comprising of thermal, hydro, JVs as well as taken-over projects. He firmly believes in the philosophy of “People before PLF”. His rich and varied experience will help the Organization to deal with energy transition effectively and take NTPC to new heights in the days to come. Shri Patel, in addition to his prime responsibilities as Director (HR), he is also part time Chairman on the board of NSPCL and APCPL.