On his appointment as Director on the Board of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), Krishna Kumar Thakur, 49, has assumed charge as Director (Human Resources) of the Public Sector engineering and manufacturing enterprise.
Thakur is a 1998 batch officer of the Indian Railway Personnel Service (IRPS). He is a Post-Graduate in Literature from Tilka Manjhi University, Bhagalpur and has done his Post-Graduate Diploma in Management with specialisation in Human Resource (PGDM-HR) from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS).
Prior to joining BHEL, Mr. Thakur was heading the HR and Administration function of Central Railway as Chief Personnel Officer.