Saumendra Kumar Barua to be the next MD of NRL
The Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) under Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions on Wednesday selected Saumendra Kumar Barua for the Managing Director post of NRL.
According to reports, apart from Saumendra, NRL’s CGM Debashish Choudhury, NRL’s CGM Nikunja Borthakur, GAIL’s ED Munukutla Vasuku Ravi Someswarudu, IOCL’s CGM Gopal Chandra Sikder, NTPC’s Additional GM Ved Prakash Pandey and PGCIL’s Additional GM R Rajagopalan also appeared in the selection interview conducted by the PESB on Wednesday.
Born in oil rich upper Assam’s Dibrugarh town, 56-year-old Barua was earlier serving as General Manager (Finance) in NRL.
Starting with his career in Indian Oil Corporation (Assam Oil Division) in 1985, Barua had joined in NRL as its first permanent employee in 1993 when NRL was set up in accordance with the provisions made in the historic Assam Accord signed on August 15, 1985.
During the last 24 years in NRL, Saumendra Kumar Barua has served at various posts of the oil company and in various locations of the company.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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