Coal India to have new corporate office in New Town

KOLKATA: State-owned Coal India Ltd would have its new corporate headquarters at New Town while its current office would be turned into a museum. Minister for Coal Sriprakash Jaiswal today laid the foundation stone for the new corporate office of CIL at the upcoming New Town in the north eastern region of the metropolis.

Speaking on the occasion he said that CIL should emerge as the biggest PSU in the country. CIL chairman Partha S Bhattacharyya said that present building in which the company was located was cramped and was gradually becoming unsafe.

"So, the need arose to shift our headquarters to New Town on a sprawling 15 acre area. The state-of-the-art new office complex will be constructed by NBCC at an estimated coast of Rs 126 crore," he said.

CIL Director (Technical) N C Jha said that the present century-old building in the busy B B D Bag area, would be converted to a museum depicting 200 years of coal mining in the country.