POWERGRID Appoints Burra Vamsi Rama Mohan as CMD

Power Grid Corporation of India has appointed Burra Vamsi Rama Mohan as its Chairman and Managing Director, effective April 1, 2026.

April 04, 2026. By Mrinmoy Dey

Power Grid Corporation of India (POWERGRID) has announced the appointment of Burra Vamsi Rama Mohan as its Chairman and Managing Director with effect from April 1, 2026. Prior to his elevation, he served as Director (Projects) at POWERGRID.

With over 33 years of diverse experience in the power transmission and telecom sectors, Vamsi has held several key leadership, policy-making, and strategic roles at both the regional and corporate levels in POWERGRID. His professional expertise spans a wide range of critical business domains, including Projects, Procurement, Commercial, Regulatory Affairs, Asset Management, and Telecom.

Vamsi was a founding member of POWERGRID's Regulatory Cell, where his deep understanding of the power sector's regulatory framework played a critical role in shaping the organisation's regulatory strategy. As a key architect of POWERGRID's entry into competitive bidding, he was instrumental in successfully positioning the company in the evolving competitive power transmission market, the company stated.

During his tenure as CEO of POWERGRID Teleservices, Vamsi led the expansion of the company's telecom business and was instrumental in initiating POWERGRID's first Data Centre project, marking a significant milestone in the organisation's digital journey. In his tenure as Director (Projects), POWERGRID achieved several milestones, including the highest ever Capitalisation and CAPEX.

Vamsi is a graduate in Engineering and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Planning and Project Management along with a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Management Development Institute (MDI, Gurugram). He has further reinforced his leadership credentials through the Harvard Manage Mentor (HMM) Program and advanced management programmes at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad.

A strong proponent of digitalisation and mechanisation, Vamsi has introduced transformational reforms in project monitoring and execution, significantly enhancing efficiency, transparency, and delivery outcomes across large-scale infrastructure projects, POWERGRID stated.

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