Texmaco Rail & Engineering Limited, an engineering and infrastructure company, announced the appointment of Partha Sarathi Bhattacharyya as an Additional Director to its Board, effective 1st January, 2022.
According to the company’s exchange filing, “We write to inform you that the Board inter – alia, approved the appointment of Mr. Partha Sarathi Bhattacharyya (DN: 00329479) as an Additional Director (designated as an Independent Director of the Company), w.e.f. 1’t January,2022 for a period of 3 (three) years as per the terms & conditions recommended by the Nomination and Remuneration Committee and in accordance with the provisions of the Act, the Listing Regulations and subject to the approval of the shareholders.”
Partha Sarathi Bhattacharyya, a Post-graduate in physics from Jadavpur University, Kolkata and a Fellow Member of The Institute of Cost Accountants of India and trained on Investment Appraisal & Management, Financial & Economic evaluation of Investment proposals from Harvard University, is having an experience of over four decades.
He is the former Chairman of Coal India Ltd. and was acknowledged for his contributions towards steering Coal India Ltd. successfully from Miniratna to Navratna & then to a Maharatna company in the year 2011. He was also associated with Bharat Coking Coal Limited as Chairman cum Managing Director from November 2003 to September 2006. He has served as Managing Director of Haldia Petrochemicals Limited from April 201 I to June 2012. Having served as Executive Director of Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals Ltd. from October 2012 to January 2016, continuing thereafter as Non-Executive Director of Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals Ltd. since January 2016.
He has authored When Coal Turned Gold, published by Penguin in August 2018. The foreword to the book was written by Late Pranab Mukherjee, Former President of India. The book was chosen as the Editors Pick among business books in 2018.
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