Excelsior Correspondent
New Delhi, Mar 19: Seema Gupta, has assumed the charge of Director (Operations) of Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (POWERGRID).
Prior to this, she was Executive Director (Northern Region-I) in the Company. A Graduate Engineer from Delhi College of Engineering (DCE), she holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IMT.
She has been part of POWERGRID Management since its inception and takes pride in witnessing POWERGRID emerge as one of the largest and best managed transmission utilities in the world.
Gupta has handled multi-disciplinary functions in various departments such as Commercial, International Business, Corporate Planning, Corporate Monitoring Group and Central Transmission Utility (CTU) in the Company.
She also played key role in coordinating with multilateral funding agencies like World Bank and Asian Development Bank for funding of major projects of the Company.
She is a recipient of Special Commendation Award for Outstanding Women Manager in PSE by former President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, under Scope Excellence Award to Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs).
She has more than 34 years of experience in power sector and has served in organizations like NTPC and POWERGRID.