History of BHEL

Board of Directors

Chairman & Managing Director

Shri K. Sadashiv Murthy

Chairman & Managing Director
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited

Shri K Sadashiv Murthy assumed the charge of Chairman & Managing Director on the Board of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), India’s largest Public Sector engineering and manufacturing enterprise w.e.f. 1st November, 2023.

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Part Time Official Directors

Ms. Arti Bhatnagar

Special Secretary & Financial Adviser
Ministry of Commerce & Industry

Ms. Arti Bhatnagar has been inducted as Part Time Official Director on the Board of BHEL w.e.f 14.02.2023. She is a Civil Servant of the Indian Defence Accounts Service of the 1990 batch.

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Shri Vijay Mittal

Joint Secretary
Ministry of Heavy Industries

Shri Vijay Mittal was inducted as Part Time Official Director on the Board or BHEL w.e.f. 25.03.2022. He is presently posted as Joint Secretary in Ministry of Heavy Industries, (Government of India).

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Independent Directors

Shri Ramesh Patlya Mawaskar

Independent Director

Shri Ramesh Patlya Mawaskar has been appointed as an Independent Director on the Board of BHEL w.e.f. 08.06.2023. He is a Commerce graduate from Amravati University and has also done M.A. (Public Admin.) from K.K.S.V.

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Shri Ashok Aseri

Independent Director

Shri Ashok Aseri has been appointed as an Independent Director on the Board of BHEL w.e.f. 29.03.2025. He is an engineering graduate from Jai Narayan Vyas University Jodhpur and holds an MBA in Human Resources from Punjab Technical University.

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Shri Aashish Chaturvedi

Independent Director

Shri Aashish Chaturvedi has been appointed as an Independent Director on the Board of BHEL w.e.f. 29.03.2025. He is a B.Tech. in Textile Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi(2000 Batch).

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Functional Directors

Shri Krishna Kumar Thakur

Director (Human Resources)
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited

Shri Krishna Kumar Thakur was inducted as Director (Human Resources) on the Board of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) w.e.f 04.07.2023.

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Shri Tajinder Gupta

Director (Power)
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited

Shri Tajinder Gupta was inducted as Director (Power) on the Board of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) w.e.f.

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Ms. Bani Varma

Director (Industrial Systems and Products)
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited

Ms. Bani Varma assumed charge as member on the board of BHEL as Director (IS&P) on the 9th of October 2023. 

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Shri Rajesh Kumar Dwivedi

Director (Finance)
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited

Mr. Rajesh Kumar Dwivedi is Director Finance and CFO of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL). He is also the Chairman (Non-Executive) of BHEL-GE Gas Turbine Services Pvt. Ltd.

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Shri S M Ramanathan

Director (Engineering, Research & Development)
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited

Shri S M Ramanathan, has been inducted as Director (Engineering, Research & Development) on the Board of BHEL w.e.f. 30.04.2025.

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