{"id":541611,"date":"2022-12-08T09:37:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T04:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=541611"},"modified":"2022-12-08T10:25:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T04:55:08","slug":"ongc-appoints-retired-bpcl-head-arun-kumar-singh-as-chairman-md","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ongc-appoints-retired-bpcl-head-arun-kumar-singh-as-chairman-md\/","title":{"rendered":"ONGC appoints retired BPCL head Arun Kumar Singh as chairman &amp; MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arun Kumar Singh, former chairman of oil refining and marketing company BPCL, was on Wednesday appointed chairman and managing director of ONGC &#8212; the first instance of a retired person being appointed the head of a Maharatna PSU. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) has approved the proposal of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas for appointment of Arun Kumar Singh, ex-CMD, BPCL as Chairman, ONGC for a three-year tenure with effect from the date of his assumption of charge of the post,&#8221; an official order said. <\/p>\n<p>PTI first reported of Singh&#8217;s appointment on November 17. Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is India&#8217;s top oil and gas producer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arun Kumar Singh, former chairman of oil refining and marketing company BPCL, was on Wednesday appointed chairman and managing director of ONGC &#8212; the first instance of a retired person being appointed the head of a Maharatna PSU. &#8220;The Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) has approved the proposal of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas for appointment of Arun Kumar Singh, ex-CMD, BPCL as Chairman, ONGC for a three-year tenure with effect from the date of his assumption of charge of the post,&#8221; an official order said. PTI first reported of Singh&#8217;s appointment on November 17. Oil and Natural Gas [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541611","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=541611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}