CMPDI celebrates 48th Coal India Limited (CIL) Foundation Day on Tuesday in front of old building premises, CMPDI. Director(T/RD&T), CMPDI, R.N. Jha, began the celebrations by unfurling the CIL flag, followed by singing of CIL Corporate Song. The occasion was graced by S.K. Gomasta, Director (T/CRD); Ajay Kumar, Director (T/P&D); Sumeet Kumar Sinha, C.V.O.; A.K. Rana, Sr. Advisor (Mining); Jayant Chakraborty, RD, RI-3 and all G.M /HODs, JCC Member, Representative of CMOAI, Employees and their family members.
RN Jha in his speech said that since its inception in 1975, coal production in CIL has increased manifold from 79 Million Tonne to 622 Million Tonne in 2021-22 for which CMPDI has played an important role from identification of coal blocks to detailed drilling, project planning, Environmental and other services incidental to coal production. Share of Coal India in India’s overall coal production is around 83%. CIL and all its subsidiary companies are making all out efforts to achieve the coal production target of 700 Mt for the year 2022-23. CIL has produced 352 Million Tonnes of coal till date with a growth of 18%. During the year 2022-23, till October, 2022 CMPDI has carried out about 2.78 lakh metre of drilling against the proposed MoU target of 6.50 lakh metre. About 4.33 billion tonnes of coal resources have been added to the proved category through Detailed Exploration covering an area of about 190 sq km through 13 Geological Reports. 17 Project Reports were prepared with incremental capacity addition of about 53 Mt per year.
He added that CMPDI has Identified Strategies/Activities like Diversification for exploration in non-Coal Sector, Efforts for exploration in coal and non-coal sector through NMET funding, Diversification of Coal Quality Testing Services, implementation of CBM and Coal Gasification Projects by CMPDI as a Project Implementation Agency, Development of Coal e-auction platform for e-auction of coal for CIL/subsidiaries, Data Acquisition by Drone Based Survey using Photogrammetry and LiDAR Techniques for the areas of OBR Survey, Land Reclamation, Mine Closure Monitoring in CIL, Providing environmental services in the non-coal sector, Establishment of NDT Cells in the respective regional institutions.
At CIL level, CMPDI has been awarded with 04 nos. of Awards, Exploration Award (Best Drilling Camp) To Kusmunda Camp under RI-V, CMPDI, Bilaspur for achieving 43.82% growth in drilling productivity (from 744 m/drill/month to 1070 m/drill/month) and achieving 103% of assigned drilling target during FY 2021-22; ‘Best HoD of CMPDI’ to Chiranjib Patra, General Manager (UMD/CED), CMPDI : Award for ‘Best Regional Director of CMPDI’ to R.K. Mahapatro, Ex. RD, RI-VII, Bhubaneswar (Now General Manager (HRD), CMPDI and RI-IV, Nagpur bags First prize for Employee welfare/Cleanliness of Colony Maintenance category.
On this occasion CMPDI felicitated the wards/children of employees who performed in an excellent way in studies and scored more than 90% in final 10th & 12th Board examinations during the academic year 2021-22. Cash prizes will be directly transferred into their bank accounts.