Arun Kumar Rath took charge as Chief Executive Officer of SAIL’s Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) on Thursday.
Upon arrival at Bhilai Niwas in the morning, Rath was welcomed by Reeta Banerjee, ED (MM), PK Dash, ED (Works) BP Nayak, ED (F& A), Anurag Nagar, GM I/c P & A) and other senior officers of the Plant.
Later, Rath arrived at Ispat Bhavan where he took charge as CEO of the Plant and interacted with members of the top management team of the Plant.
Rath said, Rs Rs I am humbled to take on this challenging responsibility. These are testing times. However, I have full confidence in Bhilai Collective and together we would certainly overcome this situation and bounce back to normalcy at the earliest,’’.
Rath took charge as CEO in place of M Ravi who was sacked by the Steel Ministry after 12 employees of the Bhilai Steel Plant died in a blast at Coke Oven complex on Tuesday.