Alka Mittal becomes first woman to head ONGC as its Chairman and MD

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) on Monday announced that its Director (Human Resources) Dr Alka Mittal has been entrusted with additional charge of Chairman and Managing Director (CMD). She has become the first woman to head the energy major, it added. The state-run company had been functioning without a CMD since the retirement of its former chief Subhash Kumar.