Krishna Kumar Thakur appointed Director (HR), BHEL
On his appointment as Director on the Board of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), Mr Krishna Kumar Thakur, 49, assumed charge as Director (Human Resources) of the Public Sector engineering and manufacturing enterprise.
Prior to joining BHEL, Mr Thakur was heading the HR and Administration function of Central Railway as Chief Personnel Officer. He has 25 years of holistic and hands-on experience in handling HR matters and administration in the Indian Railways as well as other Central PSUs.
In his long career in Railways and other PSUs, Mr Thakur has headed the HR departments of three important Railway divisions namely Solapur, Bhopal & Mumbai, which included all HR matters of the thirty-five thousand staff of the Mumbai Division. As Chairman of, Railway Recruitment Cell, Western Railway, he successfully completed the recruitment of approximately twelve thousand employees.
