Sri Y R Reddy has taken charge of post of Director (Personnel), Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited, Visakhapatnam Steel Plant on 22nd December, 2010. Sri Reddy holds M A (IRPM) with Gold Medal and MBA from Andhra University and Diploma in German Language from Maxmullar Bhavan. He started his career in 1977 as a Management Trainee with SAIL/Rourkela Steel Plant. He was transferred to Visakhapatnam Steel Plant in 1980. Sri Reddy has varied experience of 33 years in Human Resource Management including Corporate Personnel, Recruitment, Policy & Rules, Human resource Development, employee-industrial relations, welfare and liaison with statutory authorities. A life member of NIPM, Sri Reddy is visiting faculty for MBA aand MHRM programmes of Andhra, Kakitiya and Nagarjuna universities. He was member of VSP team which won prize in ISTD national competition for young executives in 1985. He had served as Vice Chairman and Secretary of National Institute of Personnel Management, Visakha chapter. He participated in inter-active session on HRM at Smith School of Business, university of Maryland, USA in 2007. He has several articles to his credit on personnel management, HRD and General Management which were published in journals like Indian Management, Indian Journal of Industrial Relations etc.