Hyderabad: Amitava Mukherjee assumed charge on 20.11.2018 as Director (Finance) of NMDC Limited, a Schedule “A” Government of India Enterprise, with Navratna Status, under the Ministry of Steel.
Amitava belongs to the 1995 batch of Indian Railway Accounts Services (IRAS) is a Cost Accountant and also holds Master of Commerce Degree from Guru Ghasi Das University, Bilaspur.
Prior to joining NMDC, he was holding the post of General Manager (Finance) in Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) for a period of around two and half years. During his service in IRAS, he held various key positions in the Eastern Railways from 1997 to 2016 like head of Standing Core Committee on Service Tax, Traffic Accounts Office and the IT Department. Before joining IRAS, he worked in Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) as Accounts Officer from 1994-1997.
During his service period in Indian Railways, he received National Award for outstanding services during the year 2006. He was also nominated by Railway Board to various Task Groups for Centralised Applications of Finance & Accounts department of Indian Railways for monitoring progress and to suggest improvements and enhancements to such applications and for Development of Traffic Accounts Management System.
Amitava has attended various international training programmes conducted by European School of Business at London & Paris; ICLIF at Kualalampur, Malaysia; INSEAD at Singapore. (NSS)
