about Abridged Maj Gen SCN Jatar (RETD)

Date of Birth --- 3 September 1932
Education --- BE (Civil), FIE, MICA, Qualified at the Defence Services Staff College
Presently --- Director, Videocon Industries Limited
Member, Steering Committee, Development Plan, Pune Municipal Corporation
Member, Indian Council of Arbitration (MICA)
President, Nagrik Chetna Manch
Founder Member, Initiative for Peace& Disarmament (INPAD)
Managing Trustee, Vimalabai Jatar Charitable Trust
Trustee, Queda Educational Foundation, London
Maharashtra Coordinator, North-South Education Foundation, USA
Member, Governing Council, Public Concern for Governance Trust, Pune
Member, Road & Traffic Committee of MCCIA

November 1995 - November 1997 Consultant, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd
September 1995 - June 1997 Project Advisor, Standing Conference of Public Enterprises, GoI
August 1993 - August 1996 Member, Governing Board, Pune Stock Exchange
March 1992 - November 1992 Managing Director, Garware Shipping Corporation Ltd
May 1990 - February 1992 President (Co-ordination) RPG Petrochem Ltd
1989 & 1990 Chairman, Standing Conference of Public Enterprises (SCOPE)
July 1987 - April 1990 Chairman & MD, ONGC Videsh Ltd (Schedule 'A')
April 1985 April 1990 President, Petroleum Sports Promotion Board
February 1981 - July 1987 Chairman & MDand Resident Chief Executive, Oil India Ltd
June 1954 February 1981

Served with the Indian Army *

Member, Steering Committee, National Gas Hydrates Programme
Member, Senate, University of Pune
Member, GoI committees on safety and security of offshore installations
Chairman/Member, GoI Indep Inquiry Committees in Oil & Gas Sector
Director, Videocon Petroleum Ltd (ICICI Bank nominee)
Director, NOCIL (ICICI Bank nominee)
Director, Prize Petroleum Ltd (ICICI Bank nominee)
Technical Consultant to ICICI Bank (Upstream operations, Oil & Natural Gas)
Member, Arbitration Panel of the Institution of Engineers


(Past and Present)
Indian National Ship Owners' Association
Documentation Centre for Corporate & Business Policy Research
Indian Society for Training & Development
Institution of Engineers (India)
Institution of Military Engineers

*Army Profile

Commissioned in the Bombay Sappers, Corps of Engineers, Indian Army with seniority from June 07, 1954; important appointments held:

• Commander infantry brigades in Kashmir Valley and Rajasthan Desert, 1977-1981
• Staff Officer to the Expert Committee presided over by General K. V. Krishna Rao (1975-76) for the reorganisation of the Indian Army and for assessing external threats to India in a 25-year period.
• Commanded an engineer regiment (1971-1974) in the 1971 war in the Poonch Sector (J&K)
• Head of the Indian Military Training Team and Chief Instructor at the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, Nigeria, 1968-71
• Student Defence Services Staff College, General Staff Officer HQ Corps and Group Adjutant Bombay Engineer Group & Centre, 1966-1968
• Instructor at the Infantry School, Mhow, 1965-1966