CIL Appoints IAS Officer Sutirtha Bhattacharya As Its New CMD

After being headless for seven months, coal major Coal India Limited has appointed 1985 batch IAS officer Sutirtha Bhattacharya as its chairman-cum-managing director on January 5, 2015. The company made the announcement in a letter to the National Stock Exchange on Monday.

“In pursuant to the letter No 21/26/2014-ASO dated December 18, 2014 issued by the Ministry of Coal… Sutirtha Bhattacharya assumed the charge of chairman-cum-managing director of Coal India Limited with effect from January 5, 2015,” said the company in the letter.

Prior to joining CIL, Bhattacharya was heading another state-run Singareni Collieries Co. Ltd. in Telengana. It should be noted that former CMD of CIL, S Narsing Rao, had put in his papers in order to play a greater role in the Telengana government.

Before the appointment, AK Dubey, joint secretary with the Coal ministry, was the acting head of the company.

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