The Public Sector headhunter (PESB) on Wednesday selected Prem Sagar Mishra for the post of Chairman and Managing Director, Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL). Subject to requisite clearances Mishra may replace S Chakravarty, the outgoing CMD retiring in March 2018. Currently, he serves as Director (Production & Planning), Orisa Mineral Development Corporation (Lien with CIL). As Many as seven candidates had appeared before PESB for the interview namely; Gunadhar Pandey (Dir (Tech), NCL); Bhola Nath Shukla (Dir (Tech), ECL); Prem Sagar Mishra (Dir (Production & Planning), OMDC (Lien with CIL)); Om Prakash Singh (Dir (Tech), MCL); Kaushelendra Kumar Mishra (GM, CCL); Alok Kumar Mehta (ED, NMDC) and Kaushal Bhaduri (AGM, NTPC). Mishra joined OMDC in November 2015. He also serves as General Manager in Bharat Coal Limited, Dy Chief Mining Engineer/Project Officer in Central Coalfield Limited and Mining Engineer in South Eastern Coalfield Limited for almost sixteen years. Mishra is an alumnus of Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad.