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Alok Tandon
Chairperson, Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission for the State of Goa and Union Territories
Incumbent
Assumed office
31 March 2023
Secretary, Ministry of Mines
In office
28 January 2021 – September 2022
Infrastructure and Industrial Development Commissioner, Government of Uttar Pradesh
In office
8 September 2019 – 28 January 2021
Preceded byAnup Chandra Pandey
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, New Okhla Industrial Development Authority
In office
8 September 2017 – 12 July 2019
Succeeded byRitu Maheshwari
Personal details
Born (1962-09-22) 22 September 1962 (age 64)
Education
OccupationCivil servant
Known for
Indian Administrative Service (1986 batch, Uttar Pradesh cadre)

Alok Tandon (born 22 September 1962) is an Indian civil servant who has served as Chairperson of the Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC) for the State of Goa and Union Territories since 31 March 2023.[1][2]

A member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) of the 1986 batch, Uttar Pradesh cadre, Tandon retired from the service in 2022 after a career of more than three decades.[1][3][4][5] He was Secretary of the Ministry of Mines in the Government of India, Infrastructure and Industrial Development Commissioner of Uttar Pradesh, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (Noida Authority), and Chairman-cum-Managing Director of the Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam. He also served as a Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, where he was associated with the launch of the Central Public Sector Enterprises Exchange Traded Fund.[1][5]

Early life and education

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Tandon graduated with a Bachelor of Technology in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1984, placing first across all engineering disciplines in his batch.[1][3][4]

He took two years away from the service between 2005 and 2007 to study economics and public policy in the United States, at Princeton University and the University of California, San Diego.[4] He completed a Master of Public Policy at Princeton in 2006.[1] He also holds a diploma in management from the All India Management Association.[5] He holds a PhD in economics.[1] He registered for the doctorate at the University of Lucknow in 2010 and was awarded it in 2015; his thesis, supervised by Professor Arvind Mohan, was titled Electricity as a Determinant of Industrial Development in U.P.[6]

Recognition

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On graduating from IIT Kanpur in 1984 Tandon received the President's Gold Medal, awarded to the highest-placed graduating student of the institute.[7][4] His graduate study at Princeton was supported by the World Bank's Robert S. McNamara Fellowship.[1] In 2010 he was awarded the Chevening Gurukul Fellowship for Leadership and Excellence, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's flagship fellowship programme for India, taking study leave to attend the London School of Economics.[1][3][5][8]

Career

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Tandon joined the Indian Administrative Service on 25 August 1986 and was allotted the Uttar Pradesh cadre, serving until his retirement in 2022.[1][5] After training at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration his first substantive posting was as executive magistrate and assistant collector in Farrukhabad from 1988 to 1990. He then served as joint secretary to the state government in the heavy industries department, as project director and chief development officer in Etawah from 1991 to 1992 and in Aligarh from 1992 to 1993, as joint secretary in the institutional finance department and staff officer to the chairman of the Board of Revenue, and as deputy managing director of the Pradeshiya Industrial and Investment Corporation of Uttar Pradesh (PICUP) from 1994 to 1996.[5] He served as District Magistrate of Maharajganj from 1996 to 1997, of Allahabad from 1997 to 2001, and of Varanasi from 2001 to 2002.[3][4][5] As District Magistrate of Allahabad he oversaw the construction, over four months, of a temporary township on the dry bed of the Ganges to accommodate more than a million pilgrims.[4] He subsequently served as private secretary to the Union Minister for Human Resource Development from 2002 to 2004 and as a Director in the Department of Personnel and Training, interspersed with the study leave he took between 2005 and 2007. On returning to the state cadre in 2007 he was executive director of the State Innovations in Family Planning Services Agency and mission director of the National Rural Health Mission in Uttar Pradesh.[5]

Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam

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Tandon served as Chairman-cum-Managing Director of the Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam (UPRVUNL), the state government-owned thermal power generation utility headquartered in Lucknow. He joined the corporation as Managing Director in August 2007, holding that post concurrently as Secretary of the state energy department for part of 2008, and became Chairman-cum-Managing Director in February 2009, serving until October 2011.[1][3][5]

In August 2011, during his tenure, the utility reported a provisional profit before tax of ₹349.58 crore for the 2010–11 financial year, a result described in contemporary reporting as a recovery for a company that had been financially ailing.[9][5]

Ministry of Finance

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Tandon served as a Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Finance from October 2011 to June 2016, across two departments: the Department of Disinvestment from 13 October 2011 to 12 May 2014, and the Department of Financial Services from 13 May 2014 to 6 June 2016.[1][5]

Department of Disinvestment

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As Joint Secretary in the Department of Disinvestment (later the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management), Tandon was closely associated with the launch of the Central Public Sector Enterprises Exchange Traded Fund (CPSE ETF), a vehicle created to allow the government to divest holdings in listed central public sector enterprises through the exchange-traded fund route.[10][11]

Ahead of the fund's launch in March 2014, Tandon told reporters that the government expected to raise about ₹3,000 crore through the CPSE ETF in that financial year, contributing to a revised annual disinvestment target of about ₹16,000 crore.[12] After the fund's new fund offer drew bids of around ₹4,400 crore against a target of ₹3,000 crore, he indicated that the government was considering further exchange-traded fund offerings as part of its disinvestment programme.[11]

The fund's design was the subject of competing authorship claims between Goldman Sachs India Asset Management, which managed it, and ICICI Securities, which advised the government on it. Asked about the dispute, Tandon said the concept was owned by the government and that Goldman Sachs India AMC, India Index Services and Products, and the advisor ICICI Securities were among a number of stakeholders involved.[13]

He was appointed a Government of India nominee director on the board of the Central Bank of India with effect from 15 November 2011, serving on its audit, risk management and other board committees.[4]

Department of Financial Services

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From May 2014 Tandon served as Joint Secretary in the Department of Financial Services, where his responsibilities concerned banks and financial institutions. In that capacity he was nominated as Government Nominee Director on the board of ICICI Bank with effect from 6 June 2014, succeeding Arvind Kumar.[14][15] He also sat on the boards of the Small Industries Development Bank of India[16] and the National Housing Bank, where he was a director under section 6(1)(e) of the National Housing Bank Act, 1987 and a member of the bank's executive committee and audit committee.[17] He was additionally a director of United India Insurance Company, a state-owned general insurer, from 5 June 2014, remaining on its board into 2016.[18][19]

Noida Authority

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Tandon was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Noida Authority with effect from 8 September 2017; he had previously served in the Cabinet Secretariat, briefly as a Joint Secretary and then, from July 2016, as an Additional Secretary.[20][21][5] He concurrently served as Managing Director of the Noida Metro Rail Corporation and, for varying periods, as Chief Executive Officer of the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority, Resident Commissioner of Uttar Pradesh in New Delhi, and Chairman of the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority.[22][23][5]

Among the initiatives undertaken during his tenure was a citywide street lighting programme under which the Authority contracted Tata Projects to replace approximately 74,000 conventional street lights in Noida with LED fittings.[24][25] The Authority also launched a mobile application, "Noida Smart LED Light", allowing residents to report non-functioning street lights, supported by a dedicated control room, with a stated target of 48 hours for resolution.[25] The Authority also introduced door-to-door collection of municipal solid waste, floating a global tender in January 2018. In June 2018 it fixed monthly collection charges ranging from ₹25 for the smallest households to ₹10,000 for large industrial units, and stopped collecting unsegregated waste from fixed points in residential sectors.[26]

The Authority also began remediating legacy waste dumpsites in the city. The National Green Tribunal barred the Authority from continuing to dump waste at its Sector 54 site, where some 80,000 tonnes had accumulated, and in June 2018 directed it to clear the stored waste and free up the forest land the site occupied. On 14 June 2018 the Authority engaged Zigma Global Environ Solutions, a Tamil Nadu-based waste management company, at a contracted rate of ₹1,193 per tonne covering processing and the transport of recovered refuse-derived fuel.[27][28] Tandon opened the remediation plant at the site in December 2018, saying that the work would take about six months and that the contractor would afterwards move to the Sector 145 site, to which waste from other locations would be transported. He said Noida generated about 600 tonnes of waste daily, of which around 45 per cent was organic, and that roughly 200,000 tonnes lay at sites across the city.[27] The Sector 54 site, of about four acres, was remediated between December 2018 and June 2019 at a cost of about ₹17.9 crore, with 27,165 tonnes processed by bio-mining; recovered fuel was sent to cement plants, soil to the Authority's horticulture department and construction debris to fill low-lying areas. The reclaimed land was subsequently developed as a wetland and park, and work at the Sector 145 site began in August 2019.[29]

He relinquished the post of Chief Executive Officer on 12 July 2019, being succeeded by Ritu Maheshwari, and continued as Chairman of the Authority.[30][5] In December 2019 the Authority's LED street lighting programme and its project converting a neglected site in Sector 91 into a wetland were among the winners of national awards announced by the central government.[31]

Housing and builder–buyer issues

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Tandon's tenure coincided with a prolonged crisis in Noida's residential property market, in which large numbers of purchasers had paid for flats in projects that developers had failed to complete and on which land dues to the Authority remained unpaid. In September 2017, following a direction from Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, he asked developers to submit fresh schedules for the delivery of flats.[32] The Authority subsequently adopted a scheme under which a defaulting developer could obtain a no-dues certificate — a prerequisite for an occupancy certificate, and so for possession and registration of flats — by depositing 10 per cent of its outstanding land dues where these exceeded ₹500 crore, or 15 per cent where they were lower, with the balance payable in instalments. Contemporary reporting described the scheme as capable of benefiting about 78,000 buyers across 94 stalled projects in Noida.[33][34]

The largest of the stalled developments were those of the Amrapali Group, against which Bank of Baroda had initiated insolvency proceedings in 2017 and whose affairs were the subject of litigation before the Supreme Court of India. In a judgment delivered in July 2019 the Court cancelled the group's registration under the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 and the lease deeds granted to it, appointed a court receiver, and directed NBCC to complete the projects. The Court was critical of the conduct of the Noida and Greater Noida authorities over the period during which the leases had been granted and defaults had accumulated, finding that they had failed to monitor the projects and had permitted sub-leasing despite unpaid dues; it directed both authorities to execute tripartite agreements with purchasers and to issue completion certificates notwithstanding the recovery of their dues.[35][36]

Infrastructure and Industrial Development Commissioner

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Tandon was appointed Infrastructure and Industrial Development Commissioner (IIDC) of Uttar Pradesh on 8 September 2019, a post he held until 28 January 2021 and in which he also served as Chairman of Udyog Bandhu, the state's industrial facilitation body. In that capacity he chaired meetings with industry representatives on the time-bound resolution of issues affecting existing industrial units in the state.[37] He held the post alongside the chairmanships of the Noida, Greater Noida and Yamuna Expressway industrial development authorities and of PICUP.[5]

In the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) Business Reform Action Plan assessment for 2019, released in September 2020, Uttar Pradesh was ranked second among Indian states and union territories, having placed twelfth in the previous assessment. The state had implemented 186 of the 187 reforms recommended by DPIIT, with its Nivesh Mitra single-window portal identified by the state government as a principal factor in the improvement.[38][39]

Ministry of Mines

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Tandon was appointed Secretary of the Ministry of Mines in January 2021, taking charge on 28 January, and held the post until September 2022.[3][1][40][5] His tenure coincided with the passage of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 2021, which removed the distinction between captive and merchant mines, provided for the transfer of statutory clearances with mineral concessions, and empowered the central government to auction mineral blocks where a state government had not done so within an agreed period.[41][42]

He also held two concurrent charges during this period. He was given additional charge as Secretary of the Ministry of Coal for eight days in June 2021, and additional charge as Secretary of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas with effect from 30 November 2021, following the superannuation of Tarun Kapoor.[3] The Mines secretaryship was his final posting in the Indian Administrative Service, from which he retired in 2022.[5][1]

Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission

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Following his retirement from the Indian Administrative Service, Tandon assumed office as Chairperson of the Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission for the State of Goa and Union Territories on 31 March 2023, a post he continues to hold.[1][2] The Commission, constituted under the Electricity Act, 2003 and headquartered in Gurugram, is the electricity regulator for Goa and the union territories of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Lakshadweep and Puducherry, with responsibility for tariff determination, licensing, power purchase approval and consumer protection.[1][2]

As Chairperson he has taken part in academic and industry fora on electricity regulation. He chaired a panel on renewable energy and electric vehicle integration at the seventh Distribution Utility Meet, held in Kochi in November 2023,[43] and was among the panel chairs at a symposium on power sector reform organised by the Centre for Energy Regulation at IIT Kanpur in March 2025 under the United Kingdom's Power Sector Reforms programme.[44] In January 2026 he gave a keynote address at a national workshop on renewable integration, storage and grid modernisation held at IIT Bombay.[45]

References

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  2. 1 2 3 "List of Chairpersons of Electricity Regulatory Commissions" (PDF). Forum of Regulators. 30 April 2026. Retrieved 26 July 2026.
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  41. ↑ "The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 2021" (PDF). PRS Legislative Research. 2021. Retrieved 10 September 2026.
  42. ↑ "Centre asks Telangana govt to auction at least six mineral blocks by June 30". Deccan Herald. Press Trust of India. Retrieved 26 July 2026.
  43. ↑ "Power distribution utilities for collaborative growth". Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation. Retrieved 26 July 2026.
  44. ↑ "PSR-II Dissemination Symposium explores transformative strategies for the future of power sector reforms in India" (Press release). Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. 21 March 2025. Retrieved 26 July 2026.
  45. ↑ "2-Day National Workshop on Future-Ready Power Systems in India: RE Integration, Storage, EVs & Grid Modernization – Agenda" (PDF). Grid Integration Lab, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. January 2026. Retrieved 26 July 2026.
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