Nearly a dozen candidates on Sunday appeared for interview before a search-cum-selection panel that is looking to appoint the new chairman of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), the nation’s largest oil firm, sources said.
While 10 out of the nearly 60 candidates who applied were called for interviews, GAIL chairman and managing director Sandeep Gupta is being considered a wild card
Gupta had not applied but was called for the interview, three sources aware of the matter said.
“They had invited 10 of the candidates who had applied. Gupta was the 11th person to be interviewed,” one of them said.
Gupta, 58, was director (finance) in IOC before he was appointed the CMD of gas utility GAIL in October 2022.
Those interviewed on Sunday included two directors on IOC board – Satish Kumar Vaduguri (Director-Marketing) and Arvind Kumar (Director-Refineries).