CMPDI, a mini-ratna company, celebrated the Coal India Foundation Day with full fervour on Saturday.
The Chief Guest of this occasion, Allahabad High Court Justice Ajay Bhanot in his speech, said, “Celebration of foundation day provides an opportunity not only to celebrate but also to introspect and develop our value system, empathy and dialogue initiation within the organization.”. Bhanot also stressed that “frame work of values” in any organization is as important as corporate goals of an organization to sustain and to attain new heights.
On this occasion, CMD, CMPDI Shekhar Saran briefed about evolution and formation of CIL and CMPDI, rationale behind its establishment. Saran highlights the achievement of CMPDI in exploration and other areas of its operation.
He gave a call for young executive to focus on innovation and to diversify the functional area and dwell into areas, artificial intelligence and data mining apart from regular services. Saran also reminded about the thrust area that CMPDI is currently focusing – Coal bed methane (CBM) and Underground Coal Gasification (UGC). Awards in different categories were given to the employees of CMPDI for excellent performance in their respective area of operation. On this occasion, based on drill productivity, Durgapur Camp, RI-IV, Nagpur got the award for the best drilling camp (Mechanical) and Singhpur Camp, RI-V, Bilaspur (Hydrostatic) category.
Under the best drill crew category award (highest productivity), crew of Drill DM-1000-2 (Murpur), RI-IV, Nagpur and KR-WAIIIC-07 of Singhpur Camp, RI-V, Bilaspur got the award for mechanical and hydrostatics drills, respectively.
For best performance in report preparation, awards were given to Chief Manager(Mining) for Opencast Report, Birendra Kumar, Chief Manager (Mining) for Underground Report, BK Thakur, GM(Geology) and his team of RI-VII, Bhubaneswar for Geological Report SN Bohidar. RK Singh and PK Somani got the award for outstanding performance in ‘Exploration’ and ‘Financial’ services, respectively. Sweta Rai and Victoria Kujur of CMPDI (HQ) Team got the award for outstanding performance in sports.
Awards for Innovation in technical category were given to RI-I, Asansol team of NP Ghatopar and Tapas Roy for implementation of integrated geophysical survey of Rajmahal, Thinesh Kumar for Innovation in automatic Lithology identification and interpretation of Carbaonaceous beds using ANN and WT.
Deepanshu Sahu, Atul Kumar, Munna Dutta, Abhishek Mundhra, Narayan Kumar Saw, HimanshuVashista, MBSinha, MamtaToppo got ‘Special Achievement’ awards. AK Mohanty, YK Singh, Anil Savanur got the lifetime achievement award for excellent contribution in their respective fields.