Sutirtha Bhattacharya Explained
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.
References
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150108184102/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2015-01-05/news/57705302_1_coal-india-cmd-coal-ministry-huge-coal-reserves Sutirtha Bhattacharya takes charge as Coal India CMD - timesofindia-economictimes
- News: 6 March 2019 . Sutirtha Bhattacharya takes over as WBERC chairman . Business Standard India . Press Trust of India.
- News: Adopt cleaner technologies in coal energy generation: Sutirtha Bhattacharya . The Times of India . 15 February 2014 . 24 May 2018 .
- http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bfb7ab7a-d1f5-11e4-a1a0-00144feab7de.html James Crabtree and Victor Mallet - Coal India digs deep in pursuit of tough goals - Financial Times, 24 March 2015