{"id":466870,"date":"2022-02-08T10:56:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T05:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=466870"},"modified":"2022-02-08T10:56:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T05:26:25","slug":"sukla-mistry-first-woman-director-on-iocs-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sukla-mistry-first-woman-director-on-iocs-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Sukla Mistry first woman director on IOC\u2019s board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Sukla Mistry on Monday became the first woman director on the IndianOil board, taking charge of refining operations of India\u2019s largest oil refiner and fuel retailer. Born into a family of humble economic means in the Sunderbans region of West Bengal, Mistry\u2019s ascent marks a big boost for gender diversity in India\u2019s energy sector and indicates rising opportunities for women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).<br \/>\n\u201cA red-letter day for IndianOil\u2026 Ms Sukla is a trendsetter and has broken multiple glass ceilings through her dynamic leadership and focus on excellence,\u201d company chairman S M Vaidya tweeted.<br \/>\nAgraduate in metallurgical engineering from Bengal College of Engineering, Sukla sacrificed her post-graduate studies even after being selected by IIT Kharagpur and joined IndianOil in 1987 to support her family and siblings\u2019 education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Sukla Mistry on Monday became the first woman director on the IndianOil board, taking charge of refining operations of India\u2019s largest oil refiner and fuel retailer. Born into a family of humble economic means in the Sunderbans region of West Bengal, Mistry\u2019s ascent marks a big boost for gender diversity in India\u2019s energy sector and indicates rising opportunities for women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). \u201cA red-letter day for IndianOil\u2026 Ms Sukla is a trendsetter and has broken multiple glass ceilings through her dynamic leadership and focus on excellence,\u201d company chairman S M Vaidya tweeted. Agraduate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466870","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}