Public Sector Steel maker Steel Authority of India Limited has announced the appointment of Bansh Bahadur Singh as the new director (personnel) of the company. In a statement SAIL said that Mr. Singh has taken the charge of the office.
Prior to his elevation as the new director (personnel) he was working as executive director incharge (personnel) with the company and was also handling additional charge of Operations, SAIL.
SAIL said in a statement, "After completing his graduation in Mechanical Engineering from Government Engineering College, Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, Mr. Singh joined SAIL in 1974 as Management Trainee (Technical) at SAIL's Durgapur Steel Plant. A year later, he was transferred to Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), where he accumulated rich experience in the areas of Mechanical Maintenance, Refractories, Steel Melting and Human Resources."
The company said, "He rose to the position of General Manager in 2003 and General Manager Incharge (Steel) in 2005. It was during this tenure of Mr. Singh that Steel Melting Shop-II of RSP achieved 100% of its capacity utilisation for the first time."
BB Singh became Executive Director of Salem Steel Plant in 2007 and played a key role in implementing a major expansion and modernization plan at the plant.
The company said, "Mr. Singh has vast experience in Human Resource Development, which began during his early days in RSP and ripened during corporate-level company-wide HRD interventions in later years. He has helped to introduce systems and processes in Training activities of the company that are paying rich dividends in areas such as multi-skilling of the SAIL workforce even today."
He serves as Director of two joint ventures of SAIL-NTPC-SAIL Power Company Pvt Ltd and Bokaro Power Supply Co Pvt Ltd. He is also Director of Maharashtra Elektrosmelt Ltd, a subsidiary of SAIL.
