Shri Dillip Kumar Patel

Mr. Dillip Kumar Patel has taken charge as Director (HR), NTPC on 1st April 2020. He started his career in NTPC way back in 1986 as an Engineering Executive Trainee (XI batch). Mr. Patel’s ascent from his humble beginning as an Executive Trainee to the top echelons of HR function in NTPC signifies his passion, commitment and hard work. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering from NIT, Rourkela and did his Post Graduate Di-ploma in Business Management (HR & Finance) from MDI, Gurgaon. He has also received management and leadership training inputs from ESCP-EAP (Paris, Berlin & Turin), Harvard Business School (USA), ISB Hyderabad & XLRI Jamshedpur.

He has an illustrious career spanning over more than three decades entailing both line and HR functions. After initial exposure of working in O&M (Mechanical Maintenance & CHP Operation) and EDC at Korba, he took a leap in his career and switched to core HR function in 1997. He looked after various facets of HR at Korba and subsequently moved on to become the Head of HR of Koldam, the first hydro project of NTPC. He had been Head of HR at various projects of NTPC such as NSPCL-Bhilai, Sipat, and Tanda for about 13 years. He had a short stint as Regional Head of HR of Easter Region-II before being appointed to the post of Director (HR) in NTPC.

He has undertaken various challenging assignments and has successfully managed HR functions while working at various locations comprising of thermal, hydro, JVs as well as taken-over projects. He firmly believes in the philosophy of “People before PLF”. His var-ied experience and deep understanding of the underlying culture of the organization will help HR to excel and achieve new heights in the days to come in NTPC.