More than two dozen candidates including ONGC director Shashi Shanker and Oil India director Biswajit Roy have applied for the top job at India’s most profitable company, ONGC. At the close of application for the job last week, nearly 30 candidates applied for replacing incumbent CMD Dinesh K Sarraf when he retires on September 30 this year. The candidates are being screened and the shortlisted will be called for the interview to be held next month, sources privy to the development said.
Top of the list of candidates is ONGC Director for Technical and Field Services Shashi Shanker. None of the other 5 functional directors of ONGC were eligible to apply as they did not have the requisite service of 2 years left. ONGC Videsh ltd Director (Finance) Vivekanand has also applied and so have 3 of ONGC’s EDs - Sanjay Kumar Moitra (Asset Manager for Bassein and Satellite Fields), Rajesh Kakkar (Asset Manager of Mumbai High fields) and A R Morbole (Asset Manager of Neelam-Heera fields).