Sutirtha Bhattacharya

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Sutirtha Bhattacharya is a 1985 batch IAS officer, who served as the Chairman & MD of Coal India Limited. Before taking charge of Coal India he was the CMD of state-owned Singareni Collieries Company. [1] He was also the Chairperson of the West Bengal Electricity Regulatory Commission. [2] Presently he is serving as the Chairman of West Bengal Electronics Industry Development Corporation Limited.

Bhattacharya has advocated coal pollution mitigation technology to reduce harmful environmental impacts, [3] while still seeking to double coal production. [4]

He graduated from Presidency College, Kolkata, as a graduating student of the University of Calcutta. [5]

References

  1. Sutirtha Bhattacharya takes charge as Coal India CMD - timesofindia-economictimes
  2. "Sutirtha Bhattacharya takes over as WBERC chairman". Business Standard India. Press Trust of India. 6 March 2019.
  3. "Adopt cleaner technologies in coal energy generation: Sutirtha Bhattacharya". The Times of India. 15 February 2014. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  4. James Crabtree and Victor Mallet - Coal India digs deep in pursuit of tough goals - Financial Times, 24 March 2015
  5. Sutirtha Bhattacharya takes over as Chairman of Coal India Limited - OdishaSunTimes.com [ usurped ]