CMPDI should speed up R&D spending: CIL chairman

CMPDI, a Mini Ratna company, celebrated its 50th anniversary^th Coal India Foundation Day celebrations will be held with great enthusiasm on Thursday at Rabindra Bhawan, CMPDI, Ranchi. The chief guest of the event, Dr. Sharad Singh Negi, ex. An IFS officer and Chairman of the Peer Review Committee on Environmental Impact of Thermal Power and Coal Mining Projects in his speech lauded the role of CMPDI in ensuring energy security of the country and said that CMPDI should take into account environmental issues including environmental prospects and environment. Department employees in preparing mining plans and drawing up reports.

Prime Minister Prasad, Chairman CIL, Guest of Honor appreciated CMPDI and informed about the achievements of Coal India Limited and CMPDI in various fields and said that CMPDI should speed up R&D expenditure, should undertake research in critical minerals, solar sector, underground coal gasification and surface coal industry. gasified territories. Prasad further said that CMPDI is the backbone of Coal India Limited and the private sector is also eyeing CMPDI because of its expertise.

Manoj Kumar, CMD, CMPDI, in his address highlighted the important achievements of CMPDI in the last one year, particularly the establishment of National Center for Coal and Energy Research (NaCCER) (Phase-I)” at CMPDI; 5G use case showcase at India Mobile Congress 2024, etc.

Awards in various categories were presented to CMPDI employees for excellent work in their field of activity. On this occasion, based on the drilling results (Hydrosstic), Singrauli Camp, RI-VI Singrauli received the 1st prize and Rajnagar Camp, RI-V, Ranchi Bags received the 2nd prize. In the Mechanical category, Camp Gopalpur, RI-VII wins the first prize and Camp Barkakana, RI-III wins the second prize.

Awards for best performance in report preparation were given to GYP Reddy, Major General (Mining), CMPDI, RI-IV, Nagpur for Open Source Project Reports and S. Jayakumar, Ch. M.A. (Mining), CMPDI, RI-IV, Nagpur, for reports on underground projects; Lakshmideep G., Manager (environment), and Amul Patwal, Di. Manager (Manager) RI-III, Ranchi for preparation of EIA/EMP reports. Team of Susobhan Kundu, CEO (Civil); Sujeeb Chatterjee, General Manager (Civil Sector) Farah Nawaz, Manager (Civil Sector); Naveen Kumar, Deputy Manager (Civil Affairs) Uday Kumar, Asst. Manager (Civilian) CMPDI (Headquarters) received awards for Infrastructure Planning. Team of Trishit Ghosh, Senior Manager, Shri Apurba Das, Manager Subhabrat Ber, D. Manager Sourav Ganguly, D. Manager, Nonihal P. Ghatovar, D. The manager received an award for preparing for GR.

In the Outstanding Performance category – Environment Laboratory, RI-IV, Nagpur, for services to the Environment Laboratory; Department of Environment, RI-VII, Bhubaneswar (except EIA/EMP and laboratory services) and RI-VI, Singrauli, for geomatics services; PC Somani, RI –V, Bilaspur, Financial Services Department; Shri M. Noor Uddin, Sr. Manager, Dilip Kumar Kisku, Dy. Manager, Nitish Kumar, D. Manager of geological exploration services, except drilling and geological exploration, including geophysical and hydrogeological. OC Division, HQ Division and Geomatics Division, HQ bags for external consulting work in 2023-2024.

The 5G Innovation Awards went to Dr. Tariq Sajjad, CEO (Maine); Shri Dheeraj Kumar, General Manager (Mining)/TS, CMPDI Headquarters; J. Tiwari, CM (E&T), TE Headquarters, Ranchi; and in software development to Dr. Tinesh Kumar.

Under CSR, CMPDI (Headquarters) received the award for maximum utilization of CSR budget in 2023-24 and Regional Institute-VII, Bhubaneswar received the award for growth in expenditure among all RIs in FY 2023-24.

On this occasion, Nilendu Kumar Singh, CMD, CCL; Mahipal Singh, Chief Engineer (TPPD) and Member Secretary, Central Electricity Authority; Shankar Nagachari, Director (T/CRD); Ajay Kumar, Director (P&D); Satish Jha, Director (T/ES); Achyut Ghatak (T/RD&T); Sumit Kumar Sinha, CVO, CMPDI; Former Managing Directors, Former Directors, Former General Managers of CMPDI, CIL and its subsidiaries, all Regional Directors; Also present were CEOs/Managers and representatives of CMOAI.