The celebration of 43rd Foundation Day of Coal India as well as Central Coalfields limited started off by paying rich tributes to coal martyrs, who laid down their lives while carrying out mining activities at ‘Shaheed Smarak’ CCl Headquarters, Darbhanga House, Ranchi on Tuesday.
In his address, Chief Guest, Director (Finance) , D K Ghosh congratulated everyone on the occasion of CIl, CCl Foundation Day.
While highlighting the performance of CCl, he said that the company has got extraordinary and excellent rating in the last five years. The company has recorded significant cost-reduction in the current fiscal year.
He appreciated marketing and sales department for registering 22 per cent growth in coal dispatch. Ghosh informed that at the beginning of this financial year, the company had coal stocks of more than 17 million tones, which has been reduced to less than 6 million tones.
He appreciated the contribution of each and every employee for this achievement and motivated everyone to continue the good work.
Ghosh appreciated the leadership of CMD/Chairman Gopal Singh and said that Singh has an important role in guiding the company towards this extraordinary success.
Director (Personnel) RS Mahapatro said, “With the relentless hard work of all, today we have established ourselves as the Energy Provider of the country, and we have to fulfill this role with full responsibility in future too.
CCl has performed tremendously well, surpassing all the challenges in recent years.”
He emphasized on the need for mining while keeping the environmental protection in mind.
Subir Chandra, Director (Technical/Operations), greeted everyone on the occasion and said that it is a matter of pride for them that they are members of the Coal India family. Chandra said,
“I have full confidence that we will repeat the history by achieving our goal even in this fiscal year. We have to stand and we will continue to take forward all the chariots of the development of CCl and Coal India together.”
Present also on this occasion were Pramila Singh, wife of CMD, Rimi Ghosh, wife of of Director (F), Reeta Rekha Chandra, wife of Director (T/O), Sunita Mahapatro, wife of Director (P), Poonam Mishra, wife of Director (P&P) and Nidhi Srivastava wife of CVO, Manjula Sharma,
Coordinator WIPS and other women officers visited Central Hospital, Gandhinagar, Old Age Home, Cheshire Home, Braj Kishore Netraheen Balika Vidyalaya and Shanti Shadan and distributed fruits and sweets