Board of Directors of POWERGRID Unchahar Transmission Limited, in its meeting held on June 26, 2024, has approved the appointment of Shri Naveen Srivastava (DIN: 10158134), Executive Director, OSD (Operations), Power Grid Corporation of India Limited ("POWERGRID"), as Additional Director - Non-Executive (Non-independent) Director & Chairman of PUTL with effect from July 01, 2024, in view of the upcoming superannuation of the present Non-Executive (Non-independent) Director & Chairman of PUTL being Shri Abhay Choudhary (DIN: 07388432) from the holding company of PUTL i.e. POWERGRID, on June 30, 2024. Shri Naveen Srivastava (DIN: 10158134) is B Tech (Hons) in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur. Shri Srivastava is holding the position of Executive Director, OSD (Operations) in Power Grid Corporation of India Limited ("POWERGRID").

Prior to taking up this assignment, he was Executive Director of Northern Region-III in POWERGRID. He has also served as Executive Director of the North Eastern Region and North Eastern Region Power System Improvement Project ("NERPSIP") in POWERGRID. During his career span of around 35 years in power sector, Shri Srivastava has worked in various capacities in EHV substations and Transmission lines both in Operations and Maintenance, Construction activities, Commercial, Engineering, Planning & Monitoring, etc.

He spearheaded the installation and commissioning of the RTU and SCADA system in the Goa Grid, alongside establishing the State Load Dispatch Centre (SLDC) in Panjim, Goa. He has been instrumental towards execution of prestigious projects like NERPSIP, underground cabling of Kashi, first 765kV Pooling Substation at Bilaspur etc. He also played a pivotal role towards adaptation of New Technologies such as Remote Control of HVDC Rihand-Dadri Link and HVDC Vindhyachal BTB Link, 1st STATCOM (+/-300 MVAR) in UP for dynamic stability, establishment of centralized monitoring of communication system of Regional Load dispatch system under UNMS, etc.

Shri Srivastava has done Harvard Manage Mentor (Management) from Harvard Business School and various Management certificate courses from ISB Hyderabard, MDI Gurgaon and XLRI Jamshedpur. He has also published various Technical Papers in International Conferences like CIGRE etc.