Amitava Mukherjee assumes office as NMDC CMD

Amitava Mukherjee appointed as CMD of NMDC, leading the company to record-breaking achievements and ambitious future goals.

NMDC Director-Finance Amitava Mukherjee, who since March 2023 has been holding additional charge as the chairman and managing director, on Thursday assumed office as the CMD of State-owned miner.

The Public Enterprise Selection Board (PESB) had in November 2024 recommended his name for the post of CMD. The government order appointing him to the post was issued on Wednesday.

A 1995 batch Indian Railway Accounts Services (IRAS) officer, Mr. Mukherjee served the Government of India in various capacities before ascending to the apex leadership of NMDC. He has been the Director-Finance since November 2018. He also serves as chairman of NMDC Steel and Legacy Iron Ore.

In a release on his assuming charge as CMD, the company said under this leadership NMDC surpassed the 45 million tonne output in FY24 becoming the first iron-ore miner in the country to achieve the milestone. He steered NMDC to its best-ever turnover and net worth, adopted cutting edge digital and technical infrastructure and resumed operations at the only mechanised diamond mine in the country.

Mr.Mukherjee has been instrumental in executing key investment strategies, bolstering financial discipline and driving NMDC towards a future of responsible mining. The company is pursuing an ambitious goal of building a mining capacity of 100 million tonne by 2030, NMDC said.

The company made inroads in gold mining in Australia and he played a defining role in commissioning of the NMDC Steel plant, NMDC said.