P K Purwar to be the next BSNL CMD
The Department of Personal & Training, Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) has announced that Pravin Kumar Purwar will be the next Chairman and Managing Director of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), who will commence office from July 1.
Pravin Kumar Purwar will replace Anupam Shrivastava, who has been the CMD of BSNL since January 2015. Shrivastava will be retiring in June this year. Under the leadership of Shrivastava, BSNL took many initiatives that included a consumer-first approach and has led enterprise businesses to contribute close to 30% of the overall revenue. Purwar was amongst the nine applicants who had applied for the post.
Purwar is a 1990 batch officer of the Indian P&T Accounts and Finance Service, and has been the CMD of MTNL since 2016. He has worked in various positions in both at field level and the corporate office in the Department of Telecommunications and BSNL.
He has done his Master’s in Commerce from Allahabad University and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.
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