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Kumar named director (operations) of NTPC in India

Kumar named director (operations) of NTPC in India
(photo courtesy NTPC)

Shri Ravindra Kumar is now director (operations) of NTPC Limited in India.

Kumar formerly was officer on special duty to the director (operations). He joined NTPC as graduate engineer trainee officer in 1989 and has more than 34 years of experience in commissioning, operations and maintenance, engineering and project management.

He received a B.Sc. (engineering) in mechanical engineering from BIT Sindri in 1988.

Kumar has worked in various capacities in O&M function at the Kahalgaon Project. He has exposure of working at the corporate centre in the engineering department and as a technical support to the director (technical).

He also previously chief technical officer of Bangladesh India Friendship Power Company Limited and chief executive officer of Patratu Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Limited.

NTPC is a hydro central public sector undertaking established in 1975. It is India’s largest power utility, with an installed capacity of 73,958 MW, with plans to become a 130 GW company by 2032.

The company owns nine hydropower plants and two small hydro plants, including the 8 MW Singrauli small hydro plant in Uttar Pradesh that began operating in 2018 with two 4 MW turbine-generator units. The facility is unique in that it uses water from the condenser cooling water discharge channel of the company’s Singrauli thermal station.