SAIL Soma Mondal becomes Chairman of SAIL
New Delhi/IBNS: Soma Mondal has taken over as Chairman of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) with effect from Jan 1.
Before joining SAIL as a Director, Mondal was the Director (Commercial) at NALCO. A graduate in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela in 1984, Mondal started her career as a Graduate Engineer Trainee at NALCO and rose to become Director (Commercial) at NALCO. She then joined SAIL in 2017 as the Director (Commercial) and subsequently has become the Chairman of SAIL.
“SAIL has a rich legacy with enormous contributions from its employees and leadership over the decades. It has been at the forefront of the nation building," she said after assuming the charge on the first day of the year.
“'There’s a little bit of SAIL in everybody’s life' is an apt description of SAIL’s importance as a trusted steel maker to the nation," she stated.
“SAIL is a colossal organization, with multi-location production units, mines, wide ranging product basket and diverse workforce. People are its greatest strength and with synergized efforts of the entire Team SAIL, we will strive to attain higher summit," she noted.
Stating that the management's main focus is to improve the top-line and the bottom-line of the company, she said the compnay is chalking out strategies to improve value for all our stakeholders.
Mondal has been instrumental in introducing new marketing strategies and products at SAIL enriching the company’s product basket.
The company has launched niche branded products like NEX (Structural) and SAIL SeQR (TMT bars). Both these products have emerged as best-in-class in their respective categories, said a statement from SAIL.
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