N Franklin Jayakumar assumes charge as CMD of Northern Coalfields

N Franklin Jayakumar has assumed charge as Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD) of Northern Coalfields Ltd (NCL), the Singrauli-based subsidiary of Coal India Ltd. He took charge on Tuesday. Jayakumar is a mining professional with over 34 years of experience in mechanised underground and opencast coal and lignite mining operations in India and abroad.

Before joining NCL, he was serving as Director (Technical), Operations, at South Eastern Coalfields Ltd (SECL), a subsidiary of Coal India Ltd, Northern Coalfields said in a statement. Under his leadership as Director (Technical), SECL achieved record coal production, offtake and OB removal, while driving mine modernisation and mechanisation.

In SECL, he spearheaded sustainability initiatives across solar, green mobility, coal gasification and energy storage and championed technology-led automation and transparency in coal sampling, the statement added.

A graduate in mining engineering from the College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, Jayakumar holds a postgraduate diploma in environmental engineering and management from Central University, Hyderabad, and an MBA in Human Resource Management from Alagappa University, Tamil Nadu.