Singh and Srivastava new heads of RSP and BSL

Kolkata, June 14: B N Singh, Executive Director in-charge, Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), and V K Srivastava, executive Director (Works), Bokaro steel plant (BSL) of SAIL, have respectively assumed charge as Managing Director of RSP and BSL.

In their careers spanning over three decades, both Mr Singh and Mr Srivastava have spearheaded various key projects of the company as accomplished technocrats and dedicated managers.

An eminent metallurgist and iron making expert, Mr Singh is credited for improving the productivity of blast furnaces in RSP, which he joined in 1972, in 1996, he was transferred as Deputy General Manager (Iron) at IISCO, where he was promoted as General Manager in 1998. He was elevated to the post of executive director and became head of SAIL's environment Management Division in Kolkata in 2003. In october the same year, Mr Singh was posted as executive director incharge of SAIL's raw materials division in Kolkata. In March 2006, he went back to RSP as executive director incharge.

Mr Srivastava, on the other hand, has been a Bokaro man all along. A mechnical engineer from Roorke University, he joined BSL's Hot strip Mill (HSM) in 1973. steadily rising in the ranks, he was inducted into the core group of SAIL looking after Bokaro steel plant's modernisation in the mid-1990s.

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