Chairman Coal India, Pramod Agarwal on Tuesday chaired a closed-door review meeting with top officials of Central Coalfield Limited (CCL) in Ranchi and said that safety and welfare of workforce was the top most priority of the company.
Prior to the meeting, Agarwal paid tribute to the coal miners who lost their lives during mining works under CCL and addressed CCL employees and stakeholders in Ranchi during his maiden visit to Jharkhand as the CMD of Coal India. Agarwal, a 1991 batch IAS officer, took the charge of Coal India CMD in January this year.
While addressing the gathering at a CCL auditorium, Agarwal said that the company is committed to meet energy requirement of the country. He reiterated that the safety and welfare of the workforce was the topmost priority of the company. “The Government is extending all possible helps to Coal India and its subsidiary companies so that the company is strengthened in the large interest of the country,” he said, seeking support of all the CCL employees in achieving the targets set for the company.
Agarwal emphasized that the satisfaction of the consumers was paramount and it was the responsibility of the company to ensure that the demands of the various sectors are fulfilled.
CMD, CCL Gopal Singh in his power point presentation during the review meeting briefed the new chairman about the immediate, short term and long term planning of the company. He narrated how the production of the company was stagnant at 48 Metric Tonne in 2012-13 and later picked up double digit growth and is currently heading towards 100 Metric Tonne.
At present, CCL has 62 operative mines – 22 underground and 40 opencast. It also has seven washeries – five coking coal washeries and two non-coking coal washeries. There are seven coalfields under CCL – East Bokaro, West Bokaro, North Karanpura, South Karanpura, Ramgarh, Giridih and Hutar. Formed on November 1, 1975, CCL, formerly National Coal Development Corporation Ltd, was one of the five subsidiaries of Coal India Ltd.
Agrawal also chaired a Review Meeting at CMPDI(HQ) on Wednesday. Shekhar Saran, CMD, CMPDI briefed about different services offered by CMPDI in fields like Coal Bed Methane, Modernization and adoption of latest Drilling equipments, Mechanisation of Machinaries in Open-cast and Underground mines, IT initiatives, etc.
Agrawal praised the performance of CMPDI and said to focus on Human Resources, whose management and proper utilizationincreases the overall efficiency and plays a crucial role in attaining greater heights.
Singh along with Vinay Dayal, Director (tech./Oprns), Coal India; V K Srivastava, Director Technical (Operations); Bhola Singh, Director Technical (P&P); NK Agarwal Director (Finance); Vinay Ranjan, Director (Personnel), CVO A.K. Srivastava; M.K Singh TS to CIL Chairman attended the meeting. Besides, representatives and members of Welfare Board, Safety Board, Area General Managers, HODs from headquarters and others were also present.
