Geeta Kapur is the first Indian woman to run a hydro Central Public Sector Enterprise. She is now Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited’s Chairman and Managing Director.
Women are breaking records nationwide. On Republic Day 2024, an all-woman Armed Forces Medical Services contingent marched on Kartavya Path for the first time. The first female leader of a hydro Central Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE) in the Indian electricity sector is another woman, Geeta Kapur. She became Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of state-owned Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited. Previously, she was Director (Personnel) of the hydroelectric power generation and transmission PSU.
Kapur became SJVN’s first full-time female director in 2018. The first female Personnel Officer of SJVN, she began in 1992. He’s 59 and from Shimla. Kapur graduated from Shimla’s Himachal Pradesh University Business School. Human resource management is her MBA. For over 31 years, Kapur has served SJVN. She has broad experience in HR, civil construction, and contracts.
Kapur has helped create policies, standard operating procedures, and wage settlements with unions given her human resources expertise, it claimed. She brought the organization to ‘Great Place To Work’ status in January 2024.
Conclusion
The first woman to lead a hydro Central Public Sector Enterprise in India, Geeta Kapur, is the Chairman and Managing Director of Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited. Kapur, an MBA from Himachal Pradesh University Business School, has 31 years of expertise in HR, civil construction, and contracts. Her knowledge has helped create rules, operational procedures, and union wage settlements.
