Amitava Mukherjee Assumes Charge Of Chairman – NMDC
From March 2023 onwards, he was holding the additional charge of CMD
Amitava Mukherjee assumed office as the Chairman and Managing Director of NMDC Limited on March 6, 2025. Joining NMDC as Director (Finance) in November 2018, he held the additional charge of CMD from March 2023 onwards. Amitava Mukherjee is also the Chairman of NMDC Steel Limited and Legacy Iron Ore Limited.
A Cost Accountant and a senior officer from the 1996 batch of the Indian Railway Accounts Services (IRAS), he has served the Government of India in various key roles, contributing to the nation’s industrial and economic growth. In his leadership, NMDC has achieved the historic milestone of becoming the first iron ore mining company in India to surpass 45 million tonnes output in FY24. He has steered NMDC to its highest ever turnover and net worth in company history, adopted cutting edge digital and technical infrastructure, and resumed operations at the only mechanized diamond mine in the country. He has played a defining role in the commissioning of the NMDC Steel Plant which now stands tall as the pride of Bastar.
Led by him, the company has made inroads in gold mining in Australia and laid a visionary international expansion blueprint towards becoming a global mining powerhouse. Shri Mukherjee has been instrumental in executing key investment strategies, bolstering financial discipline, and driving NMDC towards a future of responsible mining. With him at the helm of affairs, the Navratna company is foraying towards the ambitious goal of building a mining capacity of 100 million tonnes by 2030.
