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Bhaskar Chatterjee
Secretary, Department Of Public Enterprises, Government of India
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Mr Bhaskar Chatterjee is currently the IAS Secretary in the Department of Public Enterprises, and is leading reform and change in the public sector, with special emphasis on corporate governance, revitalization of the MOU system and corporate social responsibility.
Mr Chatterjee also held several other important positions. He was the principal advisor in the Planning Commission where he was deeply involved, not only with a number of micro and macro economic measures, but was also a part of the team responsible for shaping India’s response to the global economic crisis of 2009. As Additional Secretary at the Ministry of Rural Development he was associated with the complete overhaul of the National Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy of India. As principal secretary at Steel and Mines in the State Government of Orissa, he was part of the core team that negotiated the single biggest Foreign Direct Investment in India with the South Korean steel giant, POSCO. The POSCO steel and port complex will come up in Coastal Orissa with the project investment of Rs. 51,000 crores or US$51 billion. Mr Chatterjee also made significant contributions to higher education of Member Secretary of the Indian Council of Social Science Research and to the advancement of literacy as Director General of the National Literacy Mission.
A widely acclaimed management practitioner, theorist and teacher, Mr Chatterjee has written and lectured over many years on issues of motivation and team building. In 1990 he authored has first book – a path-breaking work entitled “Japanese Management – Maruti and the Indian Resource Management – A Contemporary Text”, which has now in its fourth revised and enlarged edition in 2009.
He has also presented several papers and articles on education and management, and has made significant contributions to the Dang Committee which was set up by the Steel Ministry in 2006, and the Hoda Committee on the mining sector set up by the Planning Commission in 2007.
He was awarded the UNESCO NOMA Award by the President of India in 1999 for his outstanding work in the field of literacy.
Graduating from Hindu College, Delhi, he then did his post graduation in history at St. Stephen’s College at Delhi University. He completed his MBA from the All India Management Association, receiving his M. Phil from the Indian Institute of Public Administration in 1989/90 – topping his batch for that academic year.
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