ONGC appoints Alka Mittal as company's first ever female Chairman & MD

Alka Mittal, the Director for Human Resources (HR) at Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has been given the additional charge as the public sector undertaking’s Chairman and Managing Director (CMD).

This late-night development comes two days after Subhash Kumar, the Director (Finance) who was holding additional charge of CMD, superannuated on December 31, 2021.

She was the senior-most ONGC Board Member after Kumar’s retirement. She joined the ONGC Board on November 27, 2018 and was the first woman to hold the charge of a full-time Director in ONGC’s history.

Kumar’s superannuation on Friday evening had left ONGC without a