Mr S. Venkatraman, Director (Business Development), GAIL (India) Ltd has taken over as the Chairman of Indraprastha Gas Limited, while Mr M. Ravindran has taken over as the company's new Managing Director . He succeeds Mr Rajesh Vedvyas.
Mr Ravindran, a mechanical engineering graduate from NIT Kurukshetra and Diploma in Management has over 31-years' experience in the fertilizers, petrochemicals, gas pipelines, transmission and city gas business. Prior to joining the current assignment, he was serving as Chief Executive Officer of GAIL Gas Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of GAIL (India) Limited.
IGL is the supplier of Compressed Natural Gas and Piped Natural Gas in Delhi, Noida, Greater Noida and Ghaziabad. IGL has embarked on an expansion programme in Delhi as well as NCR. A capital expenditure of over Rs 3,000 crore has been earmarked towards this for the next five years.