{"id":14593,"date":"2026-05-09T17:04:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/2026\/05\/09\/who-is-a-k-panda-the-new-sail-chairman-and-managing-director\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T17:04:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:04:36","slug":"who-is-a-k-panda-the-new-sail-chairman-and-managing-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/?p=14593","title":{"rendered":"Who is A K Panda? The new SAIL chairman and managing director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130980507,imgsize-972017,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/-.jpg\" alt=\"Who is A K Panda? The new SAIL chairman and managing director\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ashok Kumar Panda on Saturday assumed charge as chairman and managing director of state-owned <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/steel-authority-of-india-limited\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Steel Authority of India Limited<\/a> (SAIL), succeeding Amarendu Prakash whose tenure ended on April 1, 2026, PTI reported.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Before taking over as CMD, Panda was serving as Director (Finance) at SAIL, according to a company statement.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>Panda joined SAIL in 1992 as a Management Trainee (Technical) after completing his BE in Electrical Engineering and has spent more than three decades with the company.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>Over the years, he held multiple operational, financial and commercial roles across various plants and units of SAIL.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>The company said Panda played a key role in several strategic initiatives during his tenure as Director (Finance), aimed at improving operational efficiency and profitability.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>After assuming charge, Panda said SAIL was preparing for its next phase of growth and capacity expansion.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>\u201cSAIL is on track for its next phase of capacity expansion to 35 MTPA. Alongside expansion, we will continue to place the highest priority on safety across all our workplaces,\u201d Panda said, PTI quoted.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>\u201cStrengthening raw material security through enhanced domestic mining and exploration of overseas assets will be critical to support our growth ambitions. At the same time, we are committed to expanding our market reach with a sharper focus on value-added products, strengthening our brand connect and ensuring sustained value creation for all stakeholders,\u201d he added.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>SAIL, under the Ministry of Steel, is India\u2019s largest public sector steel manufacturing company with an installed capacity of over 20 million tonnes per annum.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/business\/india-business\/who-is-a-k-panda-the-new-sail-chairman-and-managing-director\/articleshow\/130980506.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashok Kumar Panda on Saturday assumed charge as chairman and managing director of state-owned Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), succeeding Amarendu Prakash whose tenure ended on April 1, 2026, PTI reported.Before taking over as CMD, Panda was serving as Director (Finance) at SAIL, according to a company statement.Panda joined SAIL in 1992 as a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}