VK Sinha, Director (T/RD&T), CMPDI, hoisted the Coal India flag on the occasion of Coal India Foundation Day-2016 here on Tuesday. On this occasion, Binay Dayal, Director (Technical/P&D), AK Chakraborty, Director (Technical/ES) and Sandeep Raj, CVO, CMPDI were also present apart for a large number of employees, their families and wards.
VK Sinha said on the occasion that about 5.17 lakh metre of drilling has been carried out till October’16 against MoU target of 11.0 lakh meter for the year 2016-17. Further, Drone technology will be used in four projects of NCl and two projects of CCl for generating 3D Digital Terrain Model and Ortho-photographs for operational mine planning. land Information System (lIS) for all the CIl mines is under preparation for generating the land inventory and expediting land acquisition.
Sinha stated that a team of Polish Experts and Manufacturers visited CMPDI on 7th July’16 and had detailed discussion on the issues identified by Poland Technology Group (PTG) wherein technical co-operation was sought from Polish Experts. In this regard, a data dossier has been prepared and submitted to CIl.
On the eve of Coal India Foundation Day, 180 Non-executives of both HQ and Drilling Cadre in different grades got promoted on October 31.
At Coal India level, CMPDI will be getting 3 (three) awards viz. ‘Special appreciation prize on CSR Expenditure’ for expenditure incurred to the tune of ` 200.73 lakhs against the total budget of 200.00 lakhs (enhanced) on CSR & sustainability account during 2015-16, ‘Exploration Award (Best Drilling Camp)’ to Gopalpur Camp of RI-VII, CMPDI, Bhubaneswar for achieving highest growth (43.34%) in productivity during 2015-16 and ‘Award for Special Contribution by an individual/ Group’ to Prabhu Prasad, CM (Geology), CMPDI for “Assessment of impact of coal mining on ground water system in coalfields of CIl”.
Additionally, the children of employees of CMPDI — Pallav Pandey, SaundaryaSahoo, Akansha Banerjee, Krishant Raj, Richa Kumari of 10th Class and Abdul Ahad, Ayesha Ahmad, Farhan Ahmad, Mohit Kumar Jha & Salman Shahid of 12th class got the award for their excellent performance in the field of education.