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Power trading solutions provider PTC India on Saturday announced appointment of Manoj Kumar Jhawar as Chairman & Managing Director of the company. Manoj Kumar Jhawar joined PTC Board as Whole time Director designated as Director (Commercial & Operations) on January 18, 2024, a regulatory filing said. He was given additional responsibilities of the post of CMD (PTC) from 13th June, 2024, till further orders. The Board of Directors of PTC India at its meeting held on Saturday i.e. 26th April, 2025 considered and approved appointment of Manoj Kumar Jhawar as Chairman & Managing Director of the company with effect from date of his joining subject to the Articles of Association of the Company, the filing stated. The term of his appointment shall be till the date of attaining the age of superannuation i.e. 60 years. Jhawar, 56, is Ph.D (Management Sciences) from Devi Ahilya University, Indore. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Government Engineering College, Ujjain and
Coal India arm South Eastern Coalfields Ltd (SECL) on Thursday said that Harish Duhan has taken charge as its Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD). With his industry knowledge and strategic vision, Duhan is expected to steer SECL towards greater achievements in coal production, technological advancements, and sustainable development initiatives. Prior to his appointment as CMD of SECL, Duhan served as Director Technical (Operations) at Central Coalfields Ltd (CCL), another arm of Coal India. The Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) had recommended his name for the top post at SECL on December 7, last year, the company said in a statement. Duhan brings with him the experience of over 34 years in the mining sector. His expertise includes implementing first mile connectivity projects, driving digitisation initiatives, and overseeing the development of solar projects in Coal India Ltd. An alumnus of Nagpur University, Duhan holds a Bachelor's degree in Mining Engineering. He join
The government has assigned the additional charge of CMD RINL to Ajit Kumar Saxena, a regulatory filing said on Monday. Saxena is currently the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of MOIL, a PSU under the Ministry of Steel. "We have received an order...dated 29.09.2024 from Ministry of Steel assigning the additional charge of the post of CMD, RINL to Ajit Kumar Saxena, CMD, MOIL Ltd with immediate effect...," MOIL said in the filing. As per sources, Atul Bhatt the CMD of RINL is on personal leave from September 9 till November 30, which is also the date of his superannuation. Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL), under the Ministry of Steel, is a steel manufacturing company. It owns and operates a 7.5 million tonne plant at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. The company has been facing severe financial and operational issues. According to a steel ministry document, RINL is in serious financial trouble. It has been running at minimal capacity and facing continuous losses. The overall d
Former PTC India Chairman and Managing Director Rajib Kumar Mishra will move the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) against market regulator Sebi's order to debar him from being a director in a listed entity for six months. Following the order passed by markets regulator Sebi last week, Mishra ceased to be the chairman of PTC India Financial Services Ltd (PFS) and CMD of PTC India Ltd. Talking to PTI, Mishra said, "Sebi's order is appealable, and in the merit of the order, I will go to SAT for further action and to safeguard my rights". PFS, promoted by PTC India Ltd, is a non-deposit-taking NBFC classified as an infrastructure finance company. Mishra held office in PFS in the capacity of chairman and non-executive director and was also holding the position of Chairman and Managing Director of PTC India Ltd. "Pursuant to...regulatory order issued by Sebi, Rajib Kumar Mishra ceases to be the chairman, non-executive director of the company with effect from the date of issue of the
NLC India plans to invest Rs 82,700 crore by 2030 to scale up its power generation capacity capacity to 17 GW, the company's CMD Prasanna Kumar Motupalli said. Out of the 17 GW, 6 GW will be renewable-based capacity and the balance 11 GW from conventional sources, he told PTI in an interaction. "NLC is having a target of 17 GW by 2030. Based on that we have envisaged a capex of Rs 82,700 crore," Motupalli said in reply to a question on the ongoing and future investment plans of the company. At present, NLC has an installed power generation capacity of 6 GW which comprises 1.4 GW from green sources, the CMD said. The company has set a capex target of Rs 2,480 crore for the ongoing 2023-24 fiscal, he said adding NLC will achieve 80 per cent capex utilisation by December as the target set by the Ministry of Coal. Sharing the details of the ongoing projects he said a 3x660 MW thermal power plant is being set up at Ghatampur in Uttar Pradesh. The Rs 19,406 crore project is being set u
The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited has an order book position of Rs 84,000 crore and another Rs 50,000 crore worth of orders are in the pipeline, its Chairman and Managing Director C B Ananthakrishnan said on Tuesday. He also said Argentina and Egypt have evinced interest in buying the HAL-built Light Combat Aircraft 'Tejas'. While Argentina's requirement is 15 aircraft, Egypt wanted a fleet of 20 LCAs, Ananthakrishnan told a press conference on the sidelines of Aero India 2023, Asia's largest air show underway at Air Force Station, Yelahanka here. "We are in a comfortable position today with an order of Rs 84,000 crore we are sitting on and orders in the pipeline are about Rs 50,000 crore," he said. Ananthakrishnan said indigenisation has been given thrust in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's emphasis on 'Atma Nirbhar Bharat'.
Kamdhenu Ventures, the paints business of Kamdhenu Group, will be listed on the stock exchanges BSE and NSE later this month. The paints division was separated from the steel business of the group last year for better management focus and operational flexibility, its CMD Satish Agarwal said, citing reasons for the demerger. There are plans to raise Rs 200 crore through multiple routes and expand the paints business post listing, the CMD said. The group also aims to garner a revenue of Rs 1,000 crore from the paints segment over the next five years, he said. "Kamdhenu Ventures has also issued 2,69,35,500 shares of Rs 5 each in the ratio of 1:1 towards the consideration for demerger to the shareholders of Kamdhenu Ltd having shares on 7th September 2022 being the record date," Group CFO Harish Agarwal said. The new venture had received the in-principle approval for listing from the BSE and NSE in November 2022, the CFO said. Kamdhenu has its paint manufacturing plant at Chopanki in