{"id":459872,"date":"2022-01-03T09:40:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T04:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=459872"},"modified":"2022-01-03T10:17:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T04:47:39","slug":"ongc-hasnt-had-a-chairman-in-office-for-over-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ongc-hasnt-had-a-chairman-in-office-for-over-24-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"ONGC hasn&#8217;t had a chairman in office for over 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since Friday evening, Indian public sector company ONGC NSE 0.67 % has had nobody in-charge, ever since incumbent Subhash Kumar superannuated. The government is required to appoint a successor, or at least an officiating chairman, neither of which have happened.<\/p>\n<p>ONGC, India&#8217;s most valuable public sector company, with annual capex plans of Rs 30,000 crore is likely to remain without a chief for another 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>As the hierarchy stands, the senior-most director in the organisation &#8211; Alka Mittal, director (HR) &#8211; would take over from Kumar. However, that is subject to a government order. As it stands, the last administrational order from the Oil Ministry &#8211; issued on December 28 &#8211; gave Anurag Sharma, the onshore director, the additional responsibility of finance director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Friday evening, Indian public sector company ONGC NSE 0.67 % has had nobody in-charge, ever since incumbent Subhash Kumar superannuated. The government is required to appoint a successor, or at least an officiating chairman, neither of which have happened. ONGC, India&#8217;s most valuable public sector company, with annual capex plans of Rs 30,000 crore is likely to remain without a chief for another 24 hours. As the hierarchy stands, the senior-most director in the organisation &#8211; Alka Mittal, director (HR) &#8211; would take over from Kumar. However, that is subject to a government order. As it stands, the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}