At the 110th AGM of MGMI held in Kolkata, Narendra Kumar Nanda, Director (Technical), Vice president of MGMI council was elected as the President of Mining Geological and Metallurgical Institute of India (MGMI) Council for the year 2016-17. His new role as President of MGMI shall invigorate as the mining and mineral sector is in the cross roads of commodity trough.
Established in 1906, MGMI is the oldest institute of its kind in Asia with more than 3000 members representing professionals in different fields of minerals/mineral based industries; technocrat planners and policy makers both in the private and public sector at State/Central levels; experienced managers in different sub-disciplines ranging from evaluation of resources to their eco-friendly exploitation; academicians/research workers and students from geology, mining and metallurgy stream; chief executives of most of the organizations related to ‘Mines and minerals’ in India.
The Institute is now recognized to be one of the preferred professional society for all appropriately qualified personnel associated with the study and practices of the minerals and energy industries in India.