Sutirtha Bhattacharya has taken charge as Coal India’s Chairman and Managing Director. Prior to this, Bhattacharya was the CMD of state-owned Singareni Collieries Company.
Coal India was without a full-time head since S Narsing Rao resigned from the post in May, 2014 to join Telangana government.Additional Secretary Coal A K Dubey was given the additional charge as CMD of CIL from June 26, last year.