Nalco’s Commercial Director gets additional charge as CMD

The mines ministry on Thursday has given Anshuman Das, commercial director of Nalco, additional charge as chairman and managing director of the state-run company.

After taking charge of Nalco, Das said his job will be to prioritize projects. "We will take up a proposed Rs 16,000 crore aluminium smelter project at Sundergarh in Orissa and Rs 4,000 crore alumina refinery at Gujarat on fast track. We also have to remove disruptions in coal supply for smelter operations and revamp logistics of Damanjodi. The greenfield mining project at Patangi will also be expedited which will boost performance of our smelter and coal complex," Das told ET.

Das has graduated in mechanical engineering from Rourkela engineering college (now National Institute of Technology) in Odisha and has done his master in business administration (MBA) from University of Hull, Britain, with a British Council Scholarship under the Colombo Plan. As a student of REC (presently NIT), Sri Das was quite popular amongst fellow students & teachers and was actively involved in various extracurricular activities. He was the Cultural Secretary of REC, Rourkela and also a Member of University Students’ Council.

He started his career with the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and joined Nalco in 1982. As a Management Trainee in HAL he had undergone a post-graduation course in Aeronautical Production in IIT, Chennai and was posted in HAL, Sunabeda. He was instrumental in formation of various marketing policies and strategies both for domestic and overseas sales and launching almost all the value added products of Nalco. He was primarily working in the areas of Tool Engineering and Manufacture of Aero Engines. In 1982, he joined M/s. National Aluminium Company Ltd. (NALCO) in its formative days. He has served in several capacities in NALCO such as Technical Services Department, Technical Officer to CMD, Marketing and Materials functions. As a Technical Officer to CMD, he has rich experience of project implementation in Mines, Refinery, Smelter and Captive Power Plants. Subsequently, Sri Das joined the marketing set up and was heading its Eastern Region for some time. There-after, he rose to the level of General Manager (Marketing) and was instrumental in formation of various marketing policies and strategies both for domestic and overseas sales. He was instrumental in launching almost all the value added products of NALCO both in metals and chemicals business. NALCO has achieved several mile stones and accolades through the efforts put in by Sri Das and his team. Subsequently, he headed the Materials Department as its Executive Director for a brief while before taking over as Director (Commercial) NALCO in October, 2009. Sri Das has widely traveled across the globe and is well known both nationally and internationally in the Aluminium business. He is presently the Vice-President of Aluminium Association.