Alok Kumar Mehta takes charge as Director (Commercial), NDMC

Alok Kumar Mehta assumed charge as Director (Commercial) of state owned NMDC Limited, on Saturday, June 1, 2019. Mehta, a graduate in mechanical engineering from NIT Raipur, with over 35 years of experience in iron ore mining, iron & steel and copper industries, started his career with Hindustan Copper Limited in July 1983. He later joined Saurastra Chemical, Porbander in 1993. He has also worked for the Aditya Birla group at Birla Copper Dahej and in 2003 was given the responsibility of Mount Garden Plant situated in Queensland, Australia.

He joined NMDC Limited in 2006 and was given the responsibility of bringing up the 3 million tonne per annum steel plant at Nagarnar with a propsed investment of Rs 15,525 crore.

Prior to joining as Director (Commercial), he was responsible for the execution of all the Engineering, Contracts and Projects activities of NMDC Limited from head office as Executive Director.