Arupananda Bandyopadhyay

Educational Background

  • Bachelor of Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India.
  • Operational Management Programme from Brookfield Manor & Ashore Hill Management College, England.
  • Advanced Management Programme from IIM, Kolkata and Management Training Institute, Ranchi.

Current Responsibilities

  • Associated with Deloitte (Resolution Professional) as a technical consultant to overlook and manage the operations of the Plants at Khopoli and Sahidabad.
  • Carried out Technical due diligence of both the plants for the bidding purpose to attract EOI under NCLT.
  • Technical Consultancy in Iron & Steel Industry.
  • Heading the development of Stainless Steel at Welpspun Speciality Solutions ( earlier RMG Alloys)

Experience

  • Worked in Integrated Steel Plant of SAIL for 36 years.
  • Former Executive Director (Works) of BOKARO STEEL PLANT.
  • Former Chief Executive of Salem Steel Plant (Stainless Steel), Tamilnadu.
  • As a head of works in Bokaro Steel successfully authored a turnaround, meeting the plan targets for 2013-14 & 2014-15 in all areas of the plant from Raw material to dispatch the salable product to the customer in time.
  • Successfully commissioned the backward integration of Salem Steel Plant in adopting the stainless steel making route and graduated itself from cold rolling to self sufficiency in stainless steel melting.
  • Development of high strength Hot rolled coils with guaranteed impact properties at sub-zero temperature at BSL, Bokaro.
  • Development of SAILFORMING 410 grade HR coils at BSL, Bokaro.
  • Development of S31727 Super austenitic stainless steel at Salem.
  • Development of 301LN grade steel coils in HT temper with VTS>1000 MPa and YS/UTS ratio <0.80 for Metro Coach at Salem.

Professional Exposure

  • Published paper of unprovient in Properties of 301LN austenitic stainless steel for metro coaches in Advanced Materials Research, Vol 794 (2013), PP 201->13 Trans Tech publication, Switzerland.
  • Energy management scenario of Iron & Steel industries in India in ISIOPSE – II held in Ranchi on 13-14 Dec 2014.
  • Presented Energy management activities in India at the Global superior Energy Performance Publishing at Paris in Sept,2014.
  • Visited Russia, England, Japan, Germany, USA, France.

Professional Affiliations

Professional Achievements/ Highlights

  • Former Chairman of IIM, Bokaro Chapter and Life Member of IIM.
  • Chairman, Quality Circle Forum of India (Bokaro Chapter)
  • Member, Indian Stainless Steel Development Association