The public sector headhunter on Tuesday selected Prabhat Kumar Sinha for the post of of CMD, Northern Coalfields Limited. Sinha currently serves as Director (Tech), SECL. As many as seven candidates appeared before PESB for interview namely; Rama Shankar Jha, Director (Pers), SECL; Gunadhar Pandey, Director (Tech), NCL; Radhashyam Mahapatro, Director (Pers), CCL; Bhola Nath Shukla, Director (Tech), ECL; Binay Dayal, Director (Tech), CMPDIL; Prabhat Kumar Sinha, Director (Tech), SECL and Alok Kumar Mehta, ED, NMDC. Subject to requisite clearance and ACC ratification Sinha will replace T K Nag who will retire on September 30 this year.