T. K. Chand

Dr. Tapan Kumar Chand (born 17 November 1959) is an Indian mining veteran, executive, and author. He is the Resident Director of Vedanta Limited. He was the chairman cum managing director of National Aluminium Company. NALCO is the largest integrated aluminium unit in Asia and is also one of the largest aluminium complexes of the world. He has been in the mining and metal sector since 1982, earlier serving as the director commercial of Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited / Visakhapatnam Steel Plant and Director Personnel & Director I/c (Sales & Marketing), of Central Coalfields Limited.

Early life and education He holds a Bachelor of Arts in history and a master's degree in arts, public administration and history from Utkal University. He holds a bachelor's degree in law from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, and a diploma in social welfare (labour welfare) from University of Calcutta.

He graduated as a gold medalist from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. The Utkal University, awarded him the Honoris Causa D.Litt. for his contributions towards 'nation building', on the occasion of the university's 47th convocation.

Career After taking charge as chairman and managing director of National Aluminium Company on 27 July 2015, he asked his team to renegotiate contracts with the aim of reducing procurement costs by 20%, which would save Nalco nearly 100 crores. In addition, he was trying to convince the board to include mining in its vision plan. He also announced investments of $10 billion to be made for a number of projects, including a greenfield aluminium smelter abroad. Exercising powers as a functional director, he has handled and decided all important matters of sales and marking – e-auction, forward e-auction, road sales, sales realization, coal linkage through LOA, etc. since joining.

Political career

Dr. Chand joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in Odisha on 6 March 2024, the Bharatiya Janata Party, Odisha President, Manmohan Samal welcomed Dr. Chand to the State unit of the party.