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OU alumna Priyadarshini Gaddam joins NMDC Board as Director (Personnel)
Priyadarshini Gaddam steered the R&R policy, advocated for skill development initiatives for the community and established Fire Department, Occupational Health Centre and Primary Health Centre at NMDC Steel Limited
Hyderabad: Priyadarshini Gaddam has assumed office as Director (Personnel) at NMDC. She has been appointed as a Functional Director on the Board of the company by the Ministry of Steel.
Prior to the appointment, Gaddam held the post of Chief General Manager (Personnel & Administration) and the Head of Personnel for both the NMDC Corporate Office in Hyderabad and NMDC Steel Limited in Nagarnar, Chhattisgarh.
An alumna of Osmania University, Hyderabad, she holds a postgraduate degree in Social Work (Personnel Management and Industrial Relations) along with an LLB.
Joining NMDC as an executive trainee in 1992, Gaddam rose through the company’s ranks and emerged as a leader, paving the way for more women in leadership roles in the mining industry.
In her over three-decade-long service, she has played a defining role in shaping an ecosystem that ensures a safe workplace for women and provides equal opportunities for persons from marginalised sections of society while setting the highest standards of employee welfare at NMDC, according to a company release.
She has streamlined processes and procedures in industrial relations, recruitment, medical policies and stakeholder management within the company. She represented NMDC in the Second Pay Revision Commission with respect to the Pay Revision of CPSEs.
Gaddam’s leadership came to the forefront at NMDC Steel Limited (NSL) where she steered the R&R Policy, advocated for skill development initiatives for the community and established the Fire Department, Occupational Health Centre, and Primary Health Centre at NSL.