Chairman and Managing Director (Addl. Charge)

Shri Ajit Kumar Saxena, CMD, MOIL Limited has assumed the Additional Charge of the post of CMD, MECON Limited w.e.f. 18.08.2023. He holds B. Tech degree from Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University in Metallurgy and also acquired MBA degree.

He has over 36 years of experience in Steel Sector with wide experience in technical, operational and project management areas. 

He started his career as a Management Trainee (Technical), SAIL in 1986. He worked in various assignments in SAIL starting with Bhilai Steel Plant and worked in various positions during his long tenure in SAIL. 

Earlier, he has worked as Director (Operations) of RINL-Vishakhapatnam Steel Plant, Chief General Manager, Mills, IISCO, Burnpur, SAIL.

He has received “Young Metallurgy of the year Award’’ for the year 2000 from Ministry of Steel, Govt. of India.

Director (Commercial)

Shri Sanjay Kumar Verma, did his B.Sc (Mechanical Engineer) in 1988 from BIT Sindri, holding extensive knowledge and experience in the field of Blast Furnaces. He played an instrumental role in successful running of more than 19 Blast Furnaces. Shri Verma has been spearheading his campaign to bring the Indian Blast Furnaces as par with global standards and even excelling over them.

Apart from being a true technologist, he also holds experience in marketing activities. Under his leadership, MECON has successfully galvanized the business development, marketing and contracting activities resulted in Substantial Business procurement growth and signing of number of MoUs with strategic partners.

Shri Verma has also enriched the engineering and academic fraternity by his numerous publications published over a range of journals and seminar compendiums. Shri. Verma is a recipient of many accolades from the Industry including Award of excellence from Indian Institute of Metals and “Bharat Ratna Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya Life time Achievement Award ” from IE(I).

Director (Finance)

Shri Mukesh Kumar has taken over as the Director (Finance) of MECON on 7^th December, 2022.

Born on 1972, Shri Kumar is an Associate Member of the Indian Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICAI) and also holds management degree in Finance.

Before his joining in MECON as Director (Finance), he has served The Braithwaite Burn & Jessop Construction Company Limited, Kolkata as Director (Finance) since July, 2020. He has also being appointed as Director (Finance)- Additional Charge on the Board of Scooters India Limited, Lucknow for the period August, 2020 to August, 2022.

Prior to his Board level appointment in The Braithwaite Burn & Jessop Construction Company Limited, he has served in Project & Development India Limited (PDIL) for 12 years. Shri Kumar has rich and varied experience of more than 24 years working in Government, Public & Private Sectors with wide exposure in all aspects of Corporate Accounts & Financial Management.

Director (Technical)

Shri Amit Raj assumed charge of the post of Director (Technical), MECON Limited on 31^st August, 2023. Born on 09.01.1969 at Patna, Shri Amit, a 1989 Mechanical Engineering graduate from NIT, Warangal, joined MECON in the year 1993, after working in Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited for more than 3 years. Shri Amit also acquired Post Graduate Diploma in Management in 2002.

He is an accomplished technocrat with more than 33 years of rich & diverse experience in Engineering, Erection, Commissioning and Project Management, including Site Services as well as Contract Management across Public and Private sector clients.

He has extensive experience in the field of Coke Oven Batteries and Coke Dry Cooling Plants, having worked on these projects from Concept to Commissioning.

He was also instrumental in development of indigenous 1.0 MT Jumbo Top Charge Coke Oven Battery which also received Patent from the Government of India. 

Director (Projects)

Shri Pradumn Kumar Dixit assumed the charge of Director (Projects) at MECON on 05.09.2023.
Born on the 12th October, 1965 , Shri Dixit did his B.Tech in Civil Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur in 1988 followed by M.Tech. in Industrial & Management Engineering from IIT, Kanpur in 1995 and thereafter PGDBM from IMT, Ghaziabad in 2010.
He joined MECON as a Management Trainee (Tech) in 1988 and over the years he has had a wide ranging and rich experience in Consultancy as well as EPC Projects executed by MECON. 
During his nearly thirty five years of service, he worked in variety of sectors starting from Steel sector and subsequently moved to Infrastructure and presently Oil & Gas sector with rich exposure to Technical, Commercial as well as Techno-commercial domains.

Government Director, MECON & Additional Secretary & Financial Adviser

Smt. Sukriti Likhi is  Additional Secretary and  Financial Adviser to  the Ministry of Steel, Government of India. She belongs to the Indian Administrative Service. An Economics graduate from Lady Shri Ram College, she holds a Masters degree in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics and a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University. Presently, Smt. Likhi is also Director on the Board of SAIL, NMDC, RINL, MOIL, KIOCL, MECON and NSL.

Most recently she was Additional Secretary, Ministry of Heavy Industries, Government of India. Her varied experience in administration includes working in the Ministry of Finance, as Director in the Department of Financial Services, later as Counsellor (Economic) with the Embassy of India at Washington DC. In the Haryana State Government her experience includes Finance, Urban Development and food procurement as MD Hafed.

Government Director, MECON and Joint Secretary

Dr. Sanjay Roy, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Steel, Government of India, belongs to the Indian Information Service (Cadre-1997). He holds a MBBS degree from University College of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He has done foundation course from HCM Rajasthan, Institute of Public Administration in 1997 and got training in media Management and Communication from Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia and Training in Management Skills and Media at Berkely, US.

He has vast experience in administration which includs working as Officer on Special Duty, Information Policy Planning, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Joint Director, North West Zone in Directorate of Field Publicity, Ministry of I&B, Director, Jammu & Kashmir Affairs, Ministry of Home Affairs, Director (PMSSY & Director Medical  Education) in Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.