Mr. Tajinder Gupta, 56, has assumed charge as Director (Power) of the Public Sector engineering and manufacturing enterprise.
A 1989 batch Instrumentation and Control Engineering graduate from Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences (BITS), Pilani, Mr. Gupta was Chief General Manager in NTPC Ltd. prior to joining BHEL.
He joined NTPC, as Graduate Engineer Trainee officer in 1989 and has 34 years of diverse and versatile experience in project management and concept to commissioning of power projects, across various states in India.
At NTPC, he was instrumental in the development of large size greenfield and brownfield power projects, besides operating and maintaining NTPCโs vast fleet of power stations. In the Director’s secretariat at NTPCโs corporate office, he spearheaded the team for time bound construction and commissioning of multiple infrastructure assets crucial for the operation of NTPC.
He was head of the construction team at the 2×660 MW Khargone power project with Ultra Supercritical parameters. In two years of his appointment as Business Unit Head, Mr. Gupta turned around the construction activities at the 3×660 MW North Karanpura STPP in Jharkhand.
