ONGC Director new President of Indian Geological Congress

D K Pande will now head the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation.

By PTI | Jul 21, 2008, 08.54 PM IST

NEW DELHI: Indian Geological Congress, billed as a platform to popularise geosciences, will have a new man at the helm of affairs with D K Pande, Director (Exploration) of state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp is all set to head the organisation.

Pande replaces S Asokan, Chief of Titania Project, Tata Steel, a release issued by ONGC said.

"IGC is a good forum to popularise geosciences among students so that sufficient skilled manpower is available for the petroleum industry," Pande said at a meeting of the Executive Council of the Indian Geological Congress (IGC) in Dehradun on Monday.

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