Ashutosh Karnatak has taken over charge as director (projects) of GAIL (India). Prior to his appointment as director (projects), Karnatak served as executive director (projects) in GAIL.
During his career span of over 30 years, he has managed infrastructure projects such as construction of cross country trunk pipelines like Dabhol-Bangalore, Dahej-Vijaipur, Dahej-Uran, Dabhol-Panvel, CGD networks in Mumbai, R-LNG terminal at Dabhol, and building projects like, LPG gas processing plant at Gandhar, besides spearheading wind and solar energy projects.
Karnataka has pursued M Tech from IIT Delhi, an MBA in finance and a Ph D from university of petroleum & energy studies, Dehradun. He is presently pursuing post-doctorate in business administration on 'organizational maturity in project management'. He is also a B Tech in electrical engineering from HBTI, Kanpur.
Shares of the company gained Rs 1.6, or 0.43%, to settle at Rs 369.60. The total volume of shares traded was 61,719 at the BSE (Friday).