Tata Steel MD T V Narendran has been elected as Chairman of CII Eastern Region for 2016-17 and Umesh Chowdhary, Vice Chairman and MD, Titagarh Group of Companies has been elected Deputy Chairman.
Their names were announced at the first meeting of the reconstituted Eastern Regional Council held recently in Kolkata, a CII press release informed here.
Narendran, a Mechanical Engineer from REC (NIT), Trichy, became the Managing Director of Tata Steel India and South East Asia on November 1, 2013.
Narendran, who joined Tata Steel after completing MBA at IIM-Calcutta in 1988, is a Chevening Scholar, who also attended the Advanced Management Programme in CEDEP-INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France.
Before being appointed Managing Director of Tata Steel India and South East Asia, Narendran was the Vice President - Safety, Flat Products & long Products Divisions of Tata Steel. Narendran is also Past Chairman of CII Jharkhand State Council.
Umesh Chowdhary, who is the Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Titagarh Group of Companies, is a commerce graduate from Kolkata and has been the Honorary Consul of Switzerland in West Bengal since January 2011.
Headquartered in Kolkata, the Titagarh Group has four manufacturing plants located in West Bengal, two in Northern India, one in France and one in Italy. Titagarh is the largest wagon manufacturing company in India and in France with a combined capacity of producing more than 10,000 wagons per year.
A past Chairman of CII West Bengal Committee, Chowdhary heads the CII Eastern Region Defence Task Force.