An Indo-Polish Energy Summit was organized in February 12 & 13 at Kolkata and New Delhi by Ministry of External affairs and Ministry of Economy Govt. of Poland with active support of Confederation of Indian Industry with MECON as the knowledge partner to identify specific areas of cooperation in coal mining. The summit provided a platform where in the dialogue initiated between the two Governments during the visit of the delegation were taken forward. The opportunity was utilized to explore the possible gainful utilization of advanced polished deep mining technologies for development of both existing and new deep coking coal deposit.
The first step forward towards Indo-Polish technological bilateral cooperation after the visit of the Minister of Steel to Poland was taken by MECON ltd when on February, 11 a Memorandum of understanding was signed between, AK Tyagi CMD, MECON ltd. And Prof. Jozef Dubinski, General Director of the Central Mining Institute, Poland in the presence of G. Mohan Kumar, Secretary, Ministry of Steel Government of India, JW Pietrewicz, Deputy Minister of Economy of Poland, Kartarzyna Kacperctyk, Deputy Minister of Foreign affairs, Poland and Piotr Klodkowaski, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in India. This agreement provides for bilateral cooperation in areas of underground coal mining, coal beneficiation, laboratories , environmental protection and safety.
Prof. Piotr Klodkowski Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in the Republic of India presented a memento along with appreciation letter to MECON on 12.3.2014 at New Delhi. AK Tyagi, CMD MECON received the memento and appreciation letter. Prof. Klodkowski expressed gratitude for MECON’s active role during the Indo Polish Energy Summit.