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GTCL gets first woman MD

June 11, 2021 12:00:00


Rukhsana Nazma

Engr Rukhsana Nazma Eshaque has been promoted to managing director of state-owned Gas Transmission Company Limited (GTCL) recently, says a statement.

Engr Nazma scaled new heights by becoming the first woman managing director of the GTCL she has been serving since 1995.

Prior to her new assignment, she has worked in the national gas grid operation, and project implementation and planning division at the GTCL.

She earned her degree in chemical engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1991.

She hails from Belabo upazila in Narsingdi district. Her husband Md Zakir Hossain is the chief engineer of DESCO. They are blessed with three children.

The GTCL Officers Welfare Association has congratulated Engr. Nazma Eshaque on her appointment as the MD of GTCL, terming it a unique example of women's empowerment.


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