Director Technical, N C Jha will take over as the acting chairman of Coal India (CIL) following retirement of Partha S Bhattacharyya on February 28. He will remain the acting chairman till such time a new chairman is selected.
He joined Bharat Coking Coal -- a subsidiary of CIL in 1975 and joined Coal India in 2002.
According to sources, the present chairman and managing director of Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL), Mr T K Lahiri has emerged the front runner for the CIL chairman’s post, but no official announcement has been been made yet by the coal ministry. The appointment of the CIL chairman is done by the President and it requires clearance of the Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs following which it is sent to the coal ministry that makes a notification.
Incidentally, Mr Bhattacharyya was also the CMD of BCCL before he took over as the CMD of CIL in October 2006.
The present chairman, Mr Bhattacharyya, took over as CIL’s CMD in October 2006 prior to which he was the CMD of BCCL. Mr Bhattacharyya joined CIL as a junior management trainee in 1977 and worked in various capacities before taking over as the CMD of CIL.
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