After HPCL, Govt Headhunter Fails To Find Right Candidate BPCL Top Job

New Delhi: After HPCL, the government headhunter struggled to find a suitable candidate for the top job at Bharat Petroleum, as most applicants were narrow specialists lacking multidisciplinary experience needed to run a large organisation. The Public Enterprise Selection Board (PESB) last month interviewed a dozen candidates including BPCL Director (Finance) Vetsa Ramakrishna Gupta and its Director (Refineries) S Khanna but found none suitable for the job of chairman and managing director of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL), according to a PESB order.

It advised the administrative ministry “to choose an appropriate course of further action for selection including the search cum selection committee,” according to the order. Incumbent G Krishnakumar superannuates as chairman and managing director of BPCL on April 30 this year.