Board of Directors and Key Managerial Personnel

Shri Sanjay Lohiya, IAS has been appointed as Chairman of the Company w.e.f. 05.11.2024.

Shri Lohiya, an IAS Officer of 1994 batch (Assam Meghalaya cadre) joined as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Mines in October, 2020 and later become Additional Secretary in March 2021. He joined Indian Administrative Service (IAS) after graduating from Delhi University. Before joining as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Mines, he held the post of Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Govt. of Assam. He has worked in various capacities in Government of Assam. He has already worked in Govt. of India as Director, PMO and as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare during 2011 to 2016. During his tenure in Govt. of Assam, he worked in various departments like Finance, Agriculture and Urban Development in various capacities and has wide experience.

Shri Lohiya, has assumed the current duties for the post of Chairman-cum-Managing Director of NALCO w.e.f. 02.11.2024.

Dr. Sanjay Kumar Jha has been appointed as Director of the Company w.e.f. 21.08.2019 and hereafter as Chief Executive Officer of the Company w.e.f. 14.05.2020.

Dr. S. K. Jha after completing B.Sc. (Engg.) in Metallurgy joined the 32nd batch of BARC training school following which due to his interest in the production area he opted to join Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC), Hyderabad and was posted in extrusion and piercing plant (EPP). Dr. S. K. Jha holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in Engineering from Homi Bhabha National Institute. He is also a Metallurgical Engineering graduate from NIT Jamshedpur in the year 1988.

He has worked for more than 27 years in Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). In Atomic Energy he has made number of technological innovations in processing of nuclear materials of different grades such as “difficult to hot work” Alloy. He has carried out Simulation and modeling of two dissimilar metals used for development of fusion technology. He has also developed Titanium half alloy and full alloy tube in different sizes for Light Combat Aircraft and PSLV applications. He has developed a process to develop unique properties in pressure tube; a life time component for nuclear power reactors.

Dr. Jha joined Mishra Dhatu Nigam Limited (MIDHANI) in the year 2016 and held charge as Director (Production & Marketing) from 5th July, 2016 to 30th April, 2020. Currently, he is holding the position of Chairman-cum-Managing Director of MIDHANI w.e.f. 01.05.2020.

Dr. Jha has received many awards and recognition for all his efforts at NFC. The most notable amongst them being, award for Excellence in Science technology for the year 2006 from Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and best corporate governance award 2019. He has also received Group award from DAE five times.

Shri T. Muthukumar, 57 years of age, has completed his Bachelor of Engineering (Metallurgy) from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu in the year 1986. He has over 34 years of experience in the Steel industry.

Shri T. Muthukumar joined Durgapur Steel Plant, one of the integrated steel plants of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) as Management Trainee in the year 1987. He has since risen through the ranks at SAIL after working at various departments at different levels. He was promoted as Chief General Manager (I/c Works) at Salem Steel Plant, SAIL in the year 2019. He has served at SAIL, Salem Steel Plant from the year 1994 till 2019. Before moving to MIDHANI, he was working as Chief General Manager (Projects) at Durgapur Steel Plant from the year 2020 onwards.

Shri T. Muthukumar has attended various International Training programs & Conferences and been a Chairman of Alloy Steel Committee. During his career at SAIL, he was credited with successfully developing and commercialising the production of various new grades to increase the market base. He was also credited with Alloy designing and development of various grades and high Nitrogen austenitic stainless steel and for successfully rolling and supplying ICSS-1218-321 (12X18H10T) stainless steel for ISRO, Chandrayan Mission. His contribution to indigenization includes; establishing process route to supply material for Delhi Metro Railway Coaches manufactured by BEML, Bangalore. At Salem Steel Plant, SAIL, he was also instrumental in initiating in-house fabrication of Rail cutting machine and establishment of Plate annealing facility.

Shri Nagarajan Ravi has  been appointed as Director of the Company w.e.f. 13.11.2024.

Shri Nagarajan Ravi is currently serving in National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) as Group General Manager (Business Development) at its Corporate Office, Bhubaneswar.

A graduate in Mechanical Engineering from NIT, Jamshedpur, Shri Ravi began his career in NALCO as a 5^th batch Graduate Engineer Trainee (GET) in 1988. He was posted in the NALCO’s Captive Power Plant (CPP) in Angul, Odisha as GET, where he held different key positions in commissioning and successful operations of CPP till 2005 before taking over the challenging assignment of Business Development of the Company at Corporate Office, Bhubaneswar. During his long service association of more than three and half decades with NALCO, Shri Ravi has initially contributed significantly in Captive Power Plant efficient operations, subsequently taking up various new Business Development activities in Greenfield & Brownfield aluminium projects, Joint Venture projects, diversification initiatives, Renewable Energy Projects and charting out growth plans for the Company.