P. K. Pujari
Independent and Non-Executive Director
Mr. P. K. Pujari is a postgraduate in Economics from Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University. He joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1981 and was allotted Gujrat Cadre. He worked both in the State Government and Government of India for over 36 years. He handled assignments in various Departments and Ministries such as Power, Finance, Industries and Commercial Taxes.
Mr. Pujari held the position of Secretary to Government of India in Ministry of Power. As Secretary, Ministry of Power, he initiated and concluded a number of far-reaching policy changes such as “UDAY” for sustainable operational and financial turnaround of discoms, new coal linkage policy for power plants, new hydro-power policy, policy of integration of renewable energy into the grid and guidelines for cross border trade of power with neighboring countries. He was also closely associated with the signing of the International Solar Alliance Framework Agreement during COP22 in Marrakech. He led the Indian delegations for the 2nd BRICS Energy Ministerial Summit and also for the 8th Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) Summit at Beijing.
After superannuating in 2017, he was appointed as the Chairman of the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC). During his tenure as Chairman, CERC, Real Time Market, and Ancillary Services Market were introduced. Several reformative Regulations such as Power Market Regulations, General Network Access Regulations, Transmission Charges Sharing Regulations, Grid Code, Ancillary Services Regulations, Deviation Settlement Regulations and Renewable Energy Certificate Regulations were also notified. He demitted the office of Chairman, CERC in 2022.
