The US Department of Energy and its National Carbon Capture Center will be working with Dastur for advancing the adoption, use and research, on a commercial scale, of coal gasification and carbon capture storage and utilisation technologies in India, says Atanu Mukherjee, President, M N Dastur & Co (P) Ltd. Tamajit Pain caught up with Mukherjee, who has been consulting for the metals, mining and energy industry globally in areas including strategy, technology, operations and finance, for a free-wheeling interview. Mukherjee works at the highest levels with national and international metals and mining firms as well as with the Government of India on industrial strategy, asset restructuring and policy for the core sector. M N Dastur specialises as consulting engineers for engineering, implementing and operating complex industrial and socio-techno-economic systems from concept to commissioning to operations. Excerpts: