People: NTPC Ltd (NTPC.BO)

Shri A. K. Jha is Director - Technical, Director of NTPC Ltd., since July 01, 2012. He is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from BIT, Sindri, Ranchi University (1977) and has done LL.B. from Delhi University (1996). He joined NTPC in 1977 as Executive Trainee (2nd Batch) and was part of erection team which commissioned 5X200MW capacity at NTPC’s 1st project at Singrauli. He has varied experience of 35 years in NTPC in the areas of Erection & Commissioning, Project Planning & Monitoring, Project Management, O&M, Commercial and Human Resource Management. Prior to this, he was Regional Executive Director (North) and was responsible for complete Operation & Maintenance of 5490MW capacity of Northern Region. In NTPC, he has experience in different areas including Executive Director (Project Planning & Monitoring) looking after planning and monitoring of entire capacity addition program of NTPC through Thermal, Hydro and Renewable Power Projects and development of Coal Blocks. As in-charge of HR functions in Kahalgaon, he had handled the diffi cult IR situations during Stage-I of the Project.