Shruti Agnihotriy, 1998-Batch IRAS Officer, Given Additional Charge as Chief Vigilance Officer, Indian Oil Corporation
Shruti Agnihotriy, a 1998-batch officer of the Indian Railway Accounts Service currently serving as Chief Vigilance Officer of Engineers India Limited, has been given additional charge as Chief Vigilance Officer of Indian Oil Corporation Limited for a period of six months.
Holding CVO charge at two separate central public sector enterprises simultaneously, even on a temporary additional-charge basis, is an arrangement typically used when a vacancy at one organisation needs interim coverage while a dedicated CVO selection process for that specific enterprise is finalised.
Indian Oil Corporation, the country's largest oil marketing company, carries a vigilance function spanning oversight across its network of refineries, pipelines, and retail outlets nationwide, making the CVO role at IOCL considerably more operationally extensive than her existing charge at Engineers India Limited, a smaller organisation by comparison.
Agnihotriy's background in the Indian Railway Accounts Service, a cadre focused on financial management and audit within Indian Railways, reflects the standard practice across central public sector enterprises of drawing Chief Vigilance Officers from services outside the host organisation's own operational cadre, intended to preserve independence between the vigilance function and regular management.
The six-month tenure specified for this additional charge is a defined interim period, after which the arrangement would either be extended or a dedicated CVO appointment for IOCL specifically would be expected to take over the role.
Managing vigilance oversight across two organisations of different scale and sector, EIL's engineering consultancy work and IOCL's oil marketing and refining operations, requires the officer to adapt vigilance priorities to each organisation's distinct procurement and operational risk profile.
The additional charge was processed through the Central Vigilance Commission in coordination with the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, which administers both organisations.
