Govt of India has appointed Shri Arunangshu Sarkar to the Oil and Natural Gas Corp board as the company’s first director (strategy and corporate affairs). The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the oil ministry’s proposal to appoint Sarkar, group general manager (production) at ONGC to the board, the oil ministry said in a communication to the company on Saturday. He will stay in this position until his retirement.
Before the promotion, he was the Group General Manager (Production) at ONGC. He has also previously worked as General Manager (Strategy and Corporate Planning) at ONGC Videsh, the company’s overseas investment arm.
“Present corporate strategy and planning (CS&P) group (will) be split into two verticals viz corporate planning and corporate strategy. Corporate planning would continue to report to the chairman, whereas the corporate strategy group would report to the director (strategy and corporate affairs),” it said.
The corporate affairs group under CS&P has been renamed as the ministry and parliament coordination group and will report to chief corporate planning, it added.
