New Delhi: Mukesh Choudhary has taken over as Director (Marketing) of Coal India Limited (CIL), a Maharatna PSU under the Ministry of Coal. He assumed charge of the post on December 23, CIL said in a statement on Monday.

Prior to this, Choudhary was serving as Deputy Director General of the Department of Defence Production under the Ministry of Defence. He was recommended for the post of Director (Marketing) of CIL by the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) panel, a head-hunter body for PSUs, on June 15.

Choudhary has taken over the charge from CIL's Director (Technical) B Veera Reddy, who was additionally officiating as Director (Marketing) since May this year.

Choudhary is an officer of Indian Ordnance Factory Services (IOFS) 1996 batch. He is a Engineering Graduate (Mechanical Engineering). He also holds a Master of Financial Analysis (MFA) degree and an MBA degree.

Choudhary is well versed in the finer nuances of the country's coal demand supply chain and of CIL's marketing system on the back of his six-and-a-half years exposure as director, coal production and despatch, in the coal ministry.

His functions at the Ministry included monitoring coal supplies, transport logistics and marketing policies.

He also served on the boards of six government-owned coal companies namely MCL, SECL, NLTPL, NCL, SCCL and CMDPI.

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