NEW DELHI: The government on Wednesday appointed former Bharat Petroleum chairman Arun Kumar Singh as ONGC chief for three years, giving India’s largest exploration company a full-time head after a gap of 19 months.
Singh, who superannuated from the oil refining and fuel marketing company on October 31, is the first retired person to be appointed as head of a state-run company and sets a precedence for future appointments in public sector undertakings.
He will be the second person from the ‘downstream’, or refining industry, to head ONGC, an ‘upstream’, or exploration company after Subir Raha, who had moved from IndianOil in 2001.
