Personal loss not withstanding, IOC Chairman continues to manage fuel supplies during lockdown

New Delhi: He lost his father on the day Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared a 21-day nationwide lockdown but Sanjiv Singh, Chairman of India’s largest oil firm, Indian Oil CorpNSE -1.04 % (IOC), was back at managing uninterrupted fuel supplies within 24 hours. Singh, who has been overseeing refinery operations and distribution chain since the time states declared restrictions to check spread of coronavirus in mid-March, lost his 89-year-old father on March 24.

Within 24-hours he was back in action, converting his parental home at Lucknow into a war room, monitoring operations and supplies to see no part of the country went dry at anytime.