SAIL has appointed new Chief Executive Officers (CEO) to head its steel plants at Burnpur, Rourkela and Durgapur. R.K. Rathi has taken charge as CEO, ISP, Burnpur while Ashwini Kumar and A.K. Rath has taken charge as CEO of Rourkela and Durgapur Steel Plant respectively.

M. Ravi has been declared as the CEO designate for Bhilai Steel Plant and would take charge of the plant with the superannuation of the present incumbent.

In the present challenging times for the steel industry, these appointments at the helm would further strengthen SAIL’s thrust on ramping up production from new units, aggressive cost reduction and improvement in product mix in these three plants which have recently completed modernisation and expansion program.