CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Chairman. Arun Kumar Singh has joined as the Chairman of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC). He assumed the charge as the Chief of the Energy Maharatna on 7 December 2022.

Detailed explanation-2: -Accordingly, Singh is designated as Chairman & CEO of the company, ” ONGC said in a stock exchange filing. Singh, 60, has been appointed for a three-year tenure with effect from the date of his assumption of charge of the post, according to a DoPT order. He took charge on December 7, 2022.

Detailed explanation-3: -He took charge on December 7, 2022. A mechanical engineer from the National Institute of Technology, Patna, Singh was Director (Marketing) of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) from October 2018 to September 2021, after which he was elevated as chairman and managing director of the company.

Detailed explanation-4: -More than a month after Arun Kumar Singh was appointed chairman of India’s largest oil and gas producer ONGC, the retired BPCL head is also the CEO of the company now, according to a stock exchange filing by ONGC.

Detailed explanation-5: -Col Satya Pal Wahi was an Indian corporate executive, army personnel, technocrat, writer and a former chairman of public sector enterprises ONGC and Cement Corporation of India(CCI). He is a former Indian Army Colonel at the Corps of EME.