Rajkumar Singh

Dr. R.K.P. Singh is Senior Director, Kalyani Centre for Technology & Innovation (KCTI) - Bharat Forge Ltd; PUNE. He is B.E. from BIT, Sindri (1970), M.Tech from IIT Bombay (1975) & Ph D from IIT, Madras in Metallurgical Engineering (1994). He has Green Belt Certification for SIX-SIGMA.

 

Before joining Bharat Forge Dr. R.K.P. Singh was Director General, Institute of Steel Development & Growth, Kolkata Dr Singh was Professor at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur for 3 years and earlier to that he served as General Manager (QC, R&D), Lloyds Steel Industries Limited, Wardha for six years. Before joining Lloyds Steel, Dr. Singh worked in SAIL at Bokaro Steel Plant and at R&D Centre for Iron & Steel in various capacities for a total period of 22 years. Dr. Singh has over 150 national / international publications and 26 Patents to his credit. He has widely travelled to USSR, Sweden, Norway, UK, USA, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, S-Korea, Spain, France, Germany, Australia and other countries. He has played Key role in development and transfer of several technologies in India. His prime areas of expertise are application engineering, product development, failure analysis, steel making and processing and TQM. He was conferred the Distinguished Service Award of IIT, Bombay in December 2018. He figures in Marquis Book of “Who-is-Who in Science & Engineering”, and in 2000 Outstanding Scientist of 21st Century compiled by International Biographical Centre Cambridge, England. He has guided 8 PhD’s under Indian and Australian Universities and 1 PhD is under progress. He was conferred Fellowship of Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2023. Since year 2012 he is member of the Apex Council for PM Fellowship.