New Delhi: Sutirtha Bhattacharya on Monday had taken the charge as the full-time Chairman and Managing Director of Coal India. Notify that the post had been vacant from more than six months.
Bhattacharya was the CMD of Singareni Collieries Company, a state owned company.
In a filing to BSE, CIL said, “Sutirtha Bhattacharya assumed the charge of Chairman-cum -Managing Director of Coal India Ltd with effect from January 5, 2015.”
PESB had in November recommended Bhattacharya, a 1985 batch IAS officer, for the post of Chairman and Managing Director of Coal India. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet had later cleared his name for the top job at CIL.
Since S Narsing Rao resigned from the post in May, 2014 Coal India was without a full-time head.
Bureau Report
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