{"id":564394,"date":"2023-03-22T09:39:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T04:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=564394"},"modified":"2023-03-22T10:25:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T04:55:06","slug":"how-vartika-shukla-the-first-female-leader-at-eil-is-plotting-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/how-vartika-shukla-the-first-female-leader-at-eil-is-plotting-change\/","title":{"rendered":"How Vartika Shukla, the first female leader at EIL, is plotting change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eighteen months after becoming head of Engineers India Ltd., the state-owned firm that built most of the country\u2019s oil refineries, Vartika Shukla says its transformation is gathering pace.<\/p>\n<p>Shukla, who\u2019s worked for the company for more than three decades, is attempting to change its profile, branching out from construction of fossil-fuel plants into new areas such as renewable energy projects. EIL is building India\u2019s first biorefinery, which will use bamboo to produce bioethanol, and moving into green hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuel.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve \u201cbuilt a lot of alliances in upcoming areas,\u201d Shukla, 57, said in an interview at the firm\u2019s New Delhi headquarters, sitting under framed photographs of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Droupadi Murmu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighteen months after becoming head of Engineers India Ltd., the state-owned firm that built most of the country\u2019s oil refineries, Vartika Shukla says its transformation is gathering pace. Shukla, who\u2019s worked for the company for more than three decades, is attempting to change its profile, branching out from construction of fossil-fuel plants into new areas such as renewable energy projects. EIL is building India\u2019s first biorefinery, which will use bamboo to produce bioethanol, and moving into green hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuel. We\u2019ve \u201cbuilt a lot of alliances in upcoming areas,\u201d Shukla, 57, said in an interview at the firm\u2019s [&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-564394","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\/564394","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=564394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}