Central Coalfields limited has bagged the BT Star PSU of the Year Award ( Best PSU) among PSUs category for outstanding performance.
Gopal Singh, Chairman-cum-Managing Director, CCl, has received Star PSU of the Year Award for complete turnaround of the company. A press communiqué from the coal firm stated that the company registered unprecedented growth of 11.3 per cent in raw coal production and 65 per cent growth in Over Burden Removal in the last FY 2014-15. The growth in Coal and OB was highest among all Government coal companies of the country. The company achieved a growth of 6.2 % in dispatch in 2014-15, reaching an all time high figure of 55.34 MT. Growth in coal production in the current fiscal year (2015-16) is 37 % and growth in OB is 24 %. CCl is committed to achieve its coal production and dispatch target under the 1 Billion ton coal production plan of Coal India.
The company has initiated many CSR initiatives. ITI has been set up at Bhurkunda, in which 20 wards of project affected persons (PAPs) and CCl employees have been selected and are undergoing training to become electricians. Multi Skill Development Centre has been set up at Barkakana, where 50 wards of PAPs from CCl command area are undergoing six months course of electricians and welders.
CCl Ke lal: 24 meritorious students — wards of PAPs and employees from command area of CCl, are studying in class XI and XII in DAV, Gandhinagar School, Ranchi. They are being provided free boarding, lodging, schooling and coaching for getting admission in reputed technical institutions of the country. All eleven students of first batch were selected for Engineering i.e. success rate was 100%. The company has started providing free education to school dropouts under scheme “Chalo School Chale” The company is promoting games in rural areas in big way. CCl has 250 footballs teams in different villages of CCl command zone. The bootball players are the “Change Agents” of CCl.
Samadhan Kendra, has been set up for prompt grievance rederessal of employees, ex-employees, non employees, consumers and other stakeholders. Samadhan Kendra has been functioning at area level as well. Under Swachch Vidyalaya Abhiyan construction of 11,545 toilets in 7283 schools of Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Odisha have been undertaken.