On the occasion of 76th Republic Day, CMD, CMPDI, Manoj Kumar, unfurled the National Flag at its Hqs, Ranchi and greeted all the stakeholders. Earlier, Kumar received Guard of Honor, inspected the Parade contingents and received Salutes from the marching contingents. Kumar in his address said that, “against the target of 10 lakh meters of drilling in the financial year 2024-25, CMPDI has done 6.28 lakh meters of drilling till December 2024, out of which 2.90 lakh meters has been done through departmental resources. Also, against the departmental target of 400-line kilometer 2D/3D seismic survey, 232-line kilometer seismic survey has been done till December 2024.
Shankar Nagachari, Director (Technical/CRD); Ajay Kumar, Director (Technical/P&D/ES); Smt. Roopali Gupta, President, Kasturi Mahaila Sabha; Sushma Bharti, JCC members, Trade Union Representatives, CMOAI's representative and members of CMPDI family were present.
Kumar said that efforts are being made for exploration through NEMT Funds in coal and non-coal areas. So far, a total of 28 proposals including 5 proposals of non-coal blocks have been approved, while under exploration in non-coal sector, CMPDI has submitted geological report of 3 bauxite blocks and 1 base metal block. Apart from this, exploration work has also started in 1 block of magnetite. A total of 192 reports have been prepared till December 2024, which includes 19 geological reports (GR) and 13 project reports (PR). Through 19 GRs, 5.74 billion tonnes of additional coal reserves have been brought into the Proven category through detailed exploration covering an area of about 272 square kilometres, while 13 PRs with 31 million tonnes per annum capacity increase have also been prepared. The proved category coal resource has increased from 21 billion tonnes in 1976 to about 212 billion tonnes by April 1, 2024, with most of the work done by CMPDI.