Umakanta Choudhury, General Manager In-charge of BHEL Corporate R&D Division, has been promoted as Executive Director with effect from December 22.

Choudhury, a Graduate from REC Rourkela and a Doctorate from IIT Kharagpur joined BHEL R&D Division in the year 1981 as an Engineer trainee and worked in the areas of Electrical Machines, according to a statement from BHEL.