PEC Chandigarh confers Honorary Physician of Science (Honoris Causa) upon POWERGRID CMD RK Tyagi

Ravindra Kumar Tyagi, Chairman and Managing Director, Energy Grid Company of India Restricted (POWERGRID), a Maharatna CPSU beneath Ministry of Energy, has been ceremoniously conferred with the diploma of Physician of Science (Honoris Causa) by Punjab Engineering School (deemed to be College), Chandigarh, in recognition of his excellent contributions within the progress of Energy Sector in India together with contributions within the subject of Electrical Engineering, Science & Expertise. The honorary doctorate was bestowed upon Tyagi by Gulab Chand Kataria, Governor of Punjab and Administrator, UT Chandigarh, through the fifty fifth Convocation Ceremony of the establishment held at Chandigarh. Image 3A sturdy know-how innovator, Tyagi has pioneered 1200 kV techniques, setting pleasant transformers, AI-based asset administration and process-based substations. He has represented India in a number of worldwide committees and chaired a number of technical our bodies reminiscent of Electrotechnical division, BIS and CIGRE examine teams, which has contributed to the event of worldwide technical requirements in energy sector. He has additionally authored a number of excessive impression papers for reputed nationwide and worldwide journals. He’s a recipient of quite a few awards, reminiscent of CBIP Particular person Award 2025, PSU Management Award 2025, ET Power Management Award, Worldwide Electrotechnical Commision 1906 Award and Worldwide Council on Giant Electrical System Paris Award. Tyagi is an Electrical Engineer from Punjab Engineering School (PEC), Chandigarh and has accomplished M. (Tech) in Power Research from IIT Delhi. He’s a “Fulbright Scholar” from Carnegie Mellon College, USA. Throughout his 35 years of trade wealthy expertise in Energy Sector, he held varied key positions in main energy CPSUs. He has dealt with multi-disciplinary works in varied enterprise areas of POWERGRID, reminiscent of, Asset Administration, Engineering, Enterprise Growth (home and abroad), Telecom, Load Despatch & Communication, NTAMC, DMS and so forth.