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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 is presently the Chairperson of the West Bengal Electricity Regulatory Commission.[2]

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

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  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]