Tuesday, May 23, 2006

SUBIR RAHA, the royal bengal tiger : IIPM

Aorkaholic, spending 18 hours a day on job, one of the shrewdest negotiators of the trade, downstream man as per his critics, determined and brusque at times, affable according to his friends. Fond of Earl Gray tea, Rabindra Sangeet, Hindustani classical music and mutton cooked with spring onions. A rare combination of colourful and fierce, he is Subir Raha, the Chairman and Managing Director of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC). He is that rare leader, who makes colourful headlines in spite of heading a PSU. After a degree in electronics engineering and telecommunication from Jadavpur University, he joined the oil PSU in 1969; and ended up working with the oil sector for 31 years in various capacities.

My motto: never take things for granted & verify everything on your own
Raha was adjudged as the second most influential oil man in the country, by Upstream, one of the leading policy advocacy journals. His claim to fame could most definitely be attributed to Raha’s seat of the pants responses to government diktats on oil pricing and other related policy measures. Despite being at the giving end to the government, Raha continues to rule!....

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