Sanjiv Singh
PSU executive (Indian Oil Corporation)
57days after leaving Chairman, Indian Oil Corporation (CPSE). Then Reliance Industries Ltd.
The cooling-off rule
IOC superannuation to RIL joining (reported date)
The rule: DPE guidelines: one year, prior Government approval to join a firm with which the company had business relations.
Joined within one year. PSU Watch reported he joined 'without cooling off'. Whether MoPNG approval was given is not public; see RTI draft.
Before and after
Documented
Chairman, Indian Oil Corporation (CPSE)
57 days after leaving.
Documented
Reliance Industries Ltd
Group President, oil-to-chemicals business
Former Indian Oil Corp (IOC) chairman Sanjiv Singh has joined Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) as group president
What the office had to do with the company
IOC and RIL do business with each other as refiners and fuel retailers; no specific IOC board decision involving RIL during his term has been documented here.
What was said
None found.
Sources
Dates and filings placed side by side; being listed is not a finding of wrongdoing. Sources were opened on Oct 2026.
Photo: Press Information Bureau / Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Government of India, via Wikimedia Commons, GODL-India