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Soma Mondal designated to be next chairperson of SAIL

Published on : Tuesday 11-08-2020

Soma Mondal, who is currently serving as Director (Commercial) of SAIL, has been recommended for the post of Chairperson of SAIL.

New Delhi, August 2020: Soma Mondal is set to be next Chairperson of Steel Authority of India (SAIL), a Maharatna PSU under the Ministry of Steel. She has been recommended by the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) panel recently. She is currently serving as Director (Commercial) at SAIL, and with the latest development, will become first woman Chairperson to head the Maharatna PSU.

As Chairman of SAIL, Mondal will be the Chief Executive of the corporation and will be accountable to its board of directors and the government. She also will be responsible for the efficient functioning of the corporation, and for achieving its corporate objectives and performance parameters.

Soma Mondal completed her graduation from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela in 1984 in Electrical Engineering. She joined as Trainee in NALCO and was also involved in various project implementation activities as a part of the Technology Cell. She is appraised for her notable contribution to the Aluminium Industry and in various Industry forums. She has also designed devising marketing strategies for different products in the domestic and overseas markets. Under her direction a few fundamental improvement activities were initiated at NALCO.

In March 2017, she assumed as the Director (Commercial) as the first woman director of SAIL. At that particular time the organisation was a gander at a significant jump forward in marketing volumes out of its modernised plants.