Question: Where located head office of ONGC ?
a) New Delhi
b) Kolkata
c) Bihar
d) None of these
Ans: a
Related Facts :
- Alka Mittal has been appointed interim chairman and managing director of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC)—the first woman to head the country’s largest oil and gas producer.
- The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the proposal of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas for entrustment of additional charge of the post of Chairman and Managing Director (CMD), ONGC to Alka Mittal, Director (HR), ONGC for a period of six months with effect from January 1, 2022, or till the appointment of a regular incumbent to the post.
- Ms. Mittal is the first woman to head an oil and gas exploration and production company.
- High light points :
- ONGC was set up under the visionary leadership of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru. Pandit Nehru reposed faith in Shri Keshav Dev Malviya who laid the foundation of ONGC in the form of Oil and Gas division, under Geological Survey of India, in 1955.
- A few months later, it was converted into an Oil and Natural Gas Directorate. The Directorate was converted into Commission and christened Oil & Natural Gas Commission on 14th August 1956.
- In 1994, Oil and Natural Gas Commission was converted in to a Corporation, and in 1997 it was recognized as one of the Navratnas by the Government of India. Subsequently.
- it has been conferred with Maharatna status in the year 2010.
- Maharatna ONGC is the largest crude oil and natural gas Company in India, contributing around 71 per cent to Indian domestic production.
- ONGC subsidiary HPCL is a Maharatna CPSE. HPCL has the second largest share of product pipelines in India .
- ONGC Group of Companies:
Links:
https://www.ongcindia.com/wps/wcm/connect/en/about-ongc/ongc-at-a-glance/corporate-profile/
https://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/alka-mittal-is-interim-ongc-head-for-six-months/article38105082.ece