Opening For Managing Director, Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Limited, Kolkata The Department of Pharmaceuticals (PSU Division) Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers has invited applications for Filling up the post of Managing Director, Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Limited (BCPL). Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Works Ltd. was established on April 12, 1901, with the objective of making available quality medicines at affordable prices, by eminent scientist & entrepreneur Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray which is the first Chemical & Pharmaceuticals Company in India. From a humble beginning with one factory at Maniktala (Kolkata) in 1905, three more factories were established — one at Panihati (North 24 Parganas, West Bengal) in 1920, one in Mumbai in 1938 and one in Kanpur in 1949 with its Registered Office at 6, Ganesh Chunder Avenue, Kolkata Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Works Ltd. was taken over by the Government of India in 1977