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Name: Smt. Vartika Shukla
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Smt. Vartika Shukla is the Chairman & Managing Director of our company. She is a Member of the Oil Industry Development Board (OIDB) under Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas. She is also a member in the Performance Appraisal Board (PAB) for CSIR- Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Ministry of Science & Technology (Govt. of India), part-time Chairman of CEIL (a subsidiary of EIL), Invitee to the Board of Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) and Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Limited (ISPRL). She graduated in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur and is also certified with an Executive General Management Program from IIM (Lucknow).

Smt. Shukla started her career as a Management Trainee in EIL in the year 1988. She has an extensive technical and consulting experience across the hydrocarbon value chain. During a tenure of over 34 years, she has served the organization in various capacities and led the successful implementation of of many prestigious projects leading to key Refineries & Petrochemical complexes, Fertilizer plants both in India and overseas. She led her team to develop several innovative technologies for providing solutions catering to the energy security of the nation.

She has been closely associated with developing in-house competencies and strategizing for new business opportunities both in the core hydrocarbon sector and in diversified areas of operations. She has steered the organization forging strategic collaborations with both the industries and academia of
international repute. This helped EIL expanding indigenous technology portfolio, securing more business for the organization and contributing towards Make In India. Her initiatives have led EIL widening the prospects in the areas of coal gasification, biofuels, and renewable Energy. Her concerted efforts have also led EIL securing business in the Green Hydrogen space.

She has also made an immense contribution to the development of National Policies especially in the area of Auto Fuel vision & policy, National Bio Fuel Policy and future road map for the refining and petrochemical sector. In her leadership, EIL has also advanced in the application of data driven analytical approach for improving the overall quality of the deliverables across the company. She is an active member of various Industry forums like FIPI, CII, FICCI etc. and patented several technologies suggesting strategies and technical solutions for the Oil & Gas industry. She is also the recipient of various prestigious national and international awards. She is the first woman executive in the Indian Oil & Gas industry to be bestowed with PETROFED Woman Executive Award. She is also a recipient of the SCOPE Excellence Award and MoPNG Innovation Award. She is an elected Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and has been conferred with the INAE Women Engineer of the year award for the year 2021. She has also been conferred with the Distinguished Alumnus Award by IIT-Kanpur in recognition of her stellar contributions in the field of Chemical Engineering and Technology. Indian Chamber of Commerce has bestowed her with the "CMD of the Year" award under Navratna category at the 13th PSE Excellence Awards. Ms. Shukla has also featured in the India Today She List of Top 100 Women Achievers in India.

EIL declared to become a Net Zero carbon emitting Corporate by the year 2035 showcasing her commitments towards fulfilling India’s Net Zero objective by the year 2070. Her vision is inextricably linked with the new vision statement released by EIL under her leadership stating “To be a Global Leader offering Total Energy Solutions for a Sustainable Future”.