Leadership

Smt. Vartika Shukla is the Chairman & Managing Director of our company. She is a Member of the Oil Industry Development Board (OIDB) under Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas. She is also a member in the Performance Appraisal Board (PAB) for CSIR- Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Ministry of Science & Technology (Govt. of India), part-time Chairman of CEIL (a subsidiary of EIL), Invitee to the Board of Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) and Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Limited (ISPRL). She graduated in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur and is also certified with an Executive General Management Program from IIM (Lucknow).

Smt. Shukla started her career as a Management Trainee in EIL in the year 1988. She has an extensive technical and consulting experience across the hydrocarbon value chain. During a tenure of over 34 years, she has served the organization in various capacities and led the successful implementation of of many prestigious projects leading to key Refineries & Petrochemical complexes, Fertilizer plants both in India and overseas. She led her team to develop several innovative technologies for providing solutions catering to the energy security of the nation.

She has been closely associated with developing in-house competencies and strategizing for new business opportunities both in the core hydrocarbon sector and in diversified areas of operations. She has steered the organization forging strategic collaborations with both the industries and academia of
international repute. This helped EIL expanding indigenous technology portfolio, securing more business for the organization and contributing towards Make In India. Her initiatives have led EIL widening the prospects in the areas of coal gasification, biofuels, and renewable Energy. Her concerted efforts have also led EIL securing business in the Green Hydrogen space.

She has also made an immense contribution to the development of National Policies especially in the area of Auto Fuel vision & policy, National Bio Fuel Policy and future road map for the refining and petrochemical sector. In her leadership, EIL has also advanced in the application of data driven analytical approach for improving the overall quality of the deliverables across the company. She is an active member of various Industry forums like FIPI, CII, FICCI etc. and patented several technologies suggesting strategies and technical solutions for the Oil & Gas industry. She is also the recipient of various prestigious national and international awards. She is the first woman executive in the Indian Oil & Gas industry to be bestowed with PETROFED Woman Executive Award. She is also a recipient of the SCOPE Excellence Award and MoPNG Innovation Award. She is an elected Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and has been conferred with the INAE Women Engineer of the year award for the year 2021. She has also been conferred with the Distinguished Alumnus Award by IIT-Kanpur in recognition of her stellar contributions in the field of Chemical Engineering and Technology. Indian Chamber of Commerce has bestowed her with the "CMD of the Year" award under Navratna category at the 13th PSE Excellence Awards. Ms. Shukla has also featured in the India Today She List of Top 100 Women Achievers in India.

EIL declared to become a Net Zero carbon emitting Corporate by the year 2035 showcasing her commitments towards fulfilling India’s Net Zero objective by the year 2070. Her vision is inextricably linked with the new vision statement released by EIL under her leadership stating “To be a Global Leader offering Total Energy Solutions for a Sustainable Future”.

Shri Sanjay Jindal is the Director (Finance) of our Company. Shri Jindal is B.Com (Hons.) from Delhi University and a member of the Institute of Cost & Management Accountants of India (ICMAI). Shri Jindal had joined EIL in 1992 and has rich and versatile experience of more than 29 years. He has handled entire spectrum of Finance and Accounts functions, especially Facilitating Project execution from Bidding to Contract closure, Project Financing, investments, taxation, implementation of Internal Financial Control Systems, Financial Reporting etc. Shri Jindal has also served as Chief Financial Officer of Ramagundam Fertilizers and Chemicals Limited, a Joint Venture company promoted by EIL and National Fertilizers Limited.

Shri Atul Gupta is Director (Commercial) of our Company. He is a Mechanical Engineer from GBPUAT Pantnagar and joined EIL as Management Trainee in 1992. In a career spanning 30 years, has been associated in a wide array of domain and steered the successful implementation of various mega projects in India and abroad involving various modes of execution. During project implementation, led the multidisciplinary team of Technical and Commercial domain involving Process, Engineering, Contracts & Procurement, Manufacturing, Construction and Commissioning in both green field and brown field projects. He had also been posted at various Project locations in India and abroad involving Refinery, Petrochemical, Pipeline, Fertilizer etc. before moving to corporate office in 2007.

Shri Rajiv Agarwal is Director (Technical) of our Company. He joined Engineers India Limited as Management Trainee in 1988 after graduating in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (Formerly known as University of Roorkee). He has more than 33 years of experience in Process Design & Engineering of Refineries / Petrochemicals, Fertilizers & Gas Processing Complexes, Offshore facilities & Coal /Coke gasification plants. He has successfully led concept to commissioning of grass root petrochemical complexes and very large expansion of Refineries. Process design of India’s first grass root integrated Refinery cum Petrochemical Complex, has been carried out under his supervision. He has widely travelled and worked with most of International Licensors of technologies in the field of Refinery & Petrochemicals.He has the experience of working in the offices of international engineering companies & contractors.

He is responsible for functioning of Technology Divisions including R&D, Engineering Divisions & Equipment Divisions under his portfolio. He is leading the new initiatives in the company to take on the challenges because of net zero targets of the nation set by Government of India. Under his leadership, EIL is taking up several projects in Green Hydrogen / Green Ammonia / Sustainable ATF / biofuels & Carbon Capture. He has also led several strategic alliances with academic/ R&D Institutions & Industry partners to enable the company to foray in new areas of technologies and hardware supply. He is also on the Board of Ramagundam Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd. (RFCL). He is part of many committees and working group under MoPNG and has represented EIL in steering committee of OISD. He was also member of ETAC Committee set up by MoPNG to carve out a vision for the country for energy transition.

Shri Subhas Balakumar is the Director (Projects) of our Company. Shri Balakumar graduated in Civil Engineering from Government College of Engineering, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu in 1988. He joined EIL in 1991 at Digboi Refinery Modernization project in Assam. During his illustrious career spanning more than 33 years in EIL, Shri Balakumar has been associated with successful implementation of many prestigious projects in Refineries, Petrochemicals, Pipelines, Power, Metallurgy & Infrastructure sectors both in India and abroad. He has been instrumental in timely completion of projects both in greenfield and brownfield areas with extensive experience in Projects, Construction and Contract Management.

Shri Balakumar has also steered the implementation of projects in niche areas of infrastructure like Data Centers, R&D complexes, High Speed Rail etc. During his stint as Executive Director (Projects), Shri Balakumar handled mega projects spanning across the globe including the middle east operations of EIL.

Shri Rupesh Kumar Singh is the Director (HR) of our Company. A Civil Engineer from IIT Kanpur, he has over 33 years of extensive experience in construction management. He began his career as a Management Trainee at EIL in 1991 and has played a pivotal role in the successful execution of numerous mega projects, both domestically and internationally. He has been actively involved in monitoring welfare measures for over 70,000 workmen engaged in various phases of construction projects across sectors such as refineries, petrochemicals, infrastructure, and others. In addition, he has managed the HR functions for EIL employees and their families at project sites.

Since 2023, Shri Singh has been leading the Construction Division of the company. He is also a member of the company's CSR council. His recent initiatives include developing the EIL mobile app for site HSE (Health, Safety, and Environment) observations and implementing AI-based HSE management systems at construction sites.

Shri Arun Kumar is presently working as Director (Marketing), Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. He has worked in various capacities in Ministry of Home Affairs, erstwhile Planning Commission, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Labour & Employment, Ministry of Steel, Ministry of Mines, Ministry of Rural Development and Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.

Ms. Karuna Gopal, is an Internationally acclaimed Thought Leader, Keynote Speaker and a Futurist. She is the Founder President of Foundation for Futuristic Cities a think tank that has influenced Urban Transformation in India for two decades. Her work is at the Intersection of TECHNOLOGY | SUSTAINABILITY (ESG) | FUTURE CITIES | INNOVATION. As a Keynote Speaker, she represented India at Artificial Intelligence Journey (AIJ) 2024 Moscow, RUSSIA | Commonwealth Local Government Conference (CLGC) 2023 Rwanda, AFRICA | BRICS Innovation Forum 2023 Moscow, RUSSIA | COP21-UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) Paris, FRANCE 2015 and Global Innovation Forum, SOUTH KOREA, 2019. In 2018, Ms Gopal was invited by the Prime Minister of UAE to address their flagship event – World Government Summit at Dubai among others.

Governments of USA, Sweden, South Korea, Russia, UK, Philippines, Malaysia, UAE, Singapore, Turkey, Sri Lanka and Israel have invited her for inputs on Smart Governance. Ms Gopal contributed to the design of the '100 Smart Cities Mission' of India and has been invited to speak at the launch of the Mission by the Prime Minister. Her innovation SCULPT YOUR CITY- 2009 (Crowd Sourced Protocol for Co-Creation) has shaped the Mission guidelines and has been declared a National Best Practice. In the past, she served as an Urban Expert for The WORLD BANK, DFID (Department for International Development, UK), & ADB (Asian Development Bank). Ms Gopal lectures senior IAS officers at India’s Premier Academy LBSNAA (Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration) Mussoorie, WBI (World Bank Institute) and ASCI (Administrative Staff College of India).

Ms Gopal has given more than 100 Keynote addresses globally and was invited to address HARVARD ASIA – Business Conference 2020 at Harvard University, USA and ABB FIA Formula E Championship Season 7, Europe. She has been widely published with columns and articles in National & International publications and her articles have been incorporated into Parliamentary Documentation of Lok Sabha for their policy relevance. Her Innovation (IWIN) International Women Innovators Network has been launched by the Vice President of India. Her current initiative SURGE (Smart Urbanization Reinventing Growth with Equity) is about transformative policies for ushering a NEW INDIA. She contributed to INDIA TECHNOLOGY Roadmap 2047.

Ms Gopal is the Advisor, Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Sustainable Cities at IIT Kanpur. She is also Distinguished Advisor for COWE India (Confederation of Women Entrepreneurs) and serves as Distinguished Fellow at India Foundation - a think tank on Diplomacy, Dharma and Development. She currently heads the Policy Research division for Women in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and has received many international and national awards in field of Science, Policy & Governance and Management.

Shri Deepak Mhaskey started his Career as a College Chemistry Professor for a few years, being an avid Agriculturist with an overall 36+ years of working experience in various innovative practices in Horticulture Crops and Organic Farming. Actively involved in various social welfare programs across State Including "Beti Bachao Beti Padhao", Organization of health camps, Library Development in rural areas and awareness drive in Digital Transactions to Empower the Rural Sector in this field.

Worked in Road Construction field for a brief period. Passionate worker in the field of data accumulation and analysis. Specially data analysis of electoral data nation wise and government beneficiary schemes. His many reports have been submitted and used by certain private and government agencies.

Dr. Prashant Vasantrao Patil, 53 years of age is an Orthopedic Surgeon by profession practicing over 20 years. Dr. Patil is as Consultant and Director of Suyash Medical Foundation (P) Ltd. He has been associated with various social work in medical field for poor and underprivileged people of the society. He is recipient of Girna Gaurav Puraskar for exemplary work in orthopedic profession & social work and Lokmat Icon Award from Chief Minister of Maharashtra for exemplary work in emergency trauma care and emergency free ambulance service.

Ms. Karuna Gopal, is an Internationally acclaimed Thought Leader, Keynote Speaker and a Futurist. She is the Founder President of Foundation for Futuristic Cities (2005) a think tank that has influenced Urban Transformation in India.
Her work is at the Intersection of TECHNOLOGY |INNOVATION| FUTURE CITIES.

Governments of USA, Sweden, South Korea, UK, Philippines, Malaysia, UAE, Singapore, Turkey, Sri Lanka and Israel have invited her for inputs on Smart Governance. In 2018, was invited by the Prime Minister of UAE to address WORLD GOVERNMENT SUMMIT at Dubai.

Ms Gopal contributed to the design of the ‘100 Smart Cities Mission’ of India & was Invited to speak at the launch of the Mission by the Prime Minister. Between 2004 & 2016 she served as Urban Expert with the WORLD BANK, DFID (Department for International Development, UK), USAID (United States Agency for International Development), ADB (Asian Development Bank).

Ms Gopal has given around 100 Keynote addresses so far Globally and In 2020 she has been invited to address Harvard Asia Conference at Harvard University.

She lectures senior IAS officers at India’s Premier Academy LBSNAA (Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration) Mussoorie&WBI (World Bank Institute). She has been interviewed widely by National and International Media and is also widely published. Her articles have been incorporated into Parliamentary Documentation of Lok Sabha for their policy relevance.

Her current initiative SURGE (Smart Urbanization Reinventing Growth with Equity) is about transformative policies for ushering a NEW INDIA.

She is currently National In-charge for Policy & Research BJP women wing and has served on the National Manifesto Committee of BJP for 2019 General Elections.

Ms. Gopal hails from a family of freedom fighters and IAS officers.

Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad Singh is a Non-official Independent Director of our Company. He is born and brought up in an ancient Historical land of Nalanda, Bihar. Nalanda needs no introduction in the field of education. It is actually an ancient seat of learning. Mr. Singh is an engineering graduate from the Branch of Civil Engineering from prestigious Govt. Magadh Engineering College, Gaya. He has been associated with various sectors i.e. field of waste land development to green fields, skill development, education and social welfare. His association with Waste Land Development Scheme and Water Shed Management Scheme under the Rural Development Dept., which was the combined venture of Government of India as well as Government of Bihar, was a mile stone in which he was as a Project Officer. The scheme covered the area of at about 5000 hectares of land in Sarmera Block of Nalanda district. The Whole Waste-land was converted into green land and thus this project was later named as “Hariyali Scheme”. In this project the 4J were very popular viz Jameen, Jal, Jungle, Jaanwar. It means the scheme paved path for poor peasants. He is very keenly associated with Skill Development and Education from last 21 years. He worked as a Director and CEO of K. K. Group of Institutions, now turned into K. K. University, Nalanda, Bihar.

Shri Jai Prakash Tomar is 57 years old and joined EIL Board as Non-Official Independent Director w.e.f.17.11.2021. Shri Tomar is Post Graduate in Political Science from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut. He has been associated as a Member in Backward Commission, UP, as Vice Chairman and Chairman, Labour Federation, UP and as Central Zone Chairman and Member, KVIC.

Ms. Shruti Agnihotriy (IRAS) is Chief Vigilance Officer of Engineers India Limited (a PSU under the administrative control of Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas) since July 2023.

She is Post Graduate in History from Delhi University.

She is an Indian Railways Accounts Services (IRAS) Officer of 1998 Batch and has a vast experience of 26 years.

She has worked in various leadership roles, primarily in Finance Department in South Eastern Railways, North East Frontier Railways and Northern Railways. In the beginning of her career, she unearthed a big scam of fake Revenue Stamps being used in Cash Office of Nagpur Division of India Railways.

She headed Finance and Accounts Department of Tinsukia Division in North Frontier Railways where due to her active involvement in proper examination of files and projects, savings worth crores to the exchequer were achieved. This Division under her leadership won the Shield for Best Finance Department in the entire North Frontier Railways.

Her financial expertise together with managerial acumen played a pivotal role in introduction of various new initiatives and brought Systematic Reforms through Innovation and effective use of Technology.