Personal Profile
Mining engineering graduate from ISM Dhanbad with 25 years of cumulative experience in coal mine development, operations, planning, designing and most recently in digital transformation. Experience includes underground as well as open pit coal mines. Aspire to work towards developing an efficient mining system by making use of digital technologies.
Company Profile
Central Mine Planning & Design Institute Limited (CMPDI) is a Government of India enterprise having its corporate headquarters at Ranchi in India. It is a fully owned subsidiary of Coal India Limited (CIL) and a Schedule-B company.
It is a Mini Ratna (Category I) company since 2019 and ISO 9001 certified since March 1998. It is also on way for ISO 27001 certification for its information security management. In 1972, CMPDI was originally conceived and proposed by a joint study group with Polish experts as a comprehensive planning set-up under one roof for entire Indian mining industry, which was then operating on a rudimentary planning system. This was also the time when Indian coal-industry was being nationalized to enable it to support the high growth of energy sector required for speedy industrial growth of the country in the coming years. In December 1973, the Government of India approved the proposal of CMPDI's formation restricting its field of activities initially to the then nationalized coal-industry, since the need for scientific planning for the coalmining sector had become paramount. In January 1974, CMPDI started functioning as a division of the then recently constituted Coal Mines Authority Limited (CMAL), and the planning wing of erstwhile National Coal Development Corporation (NCDC) forming its nucleus. On 1st November 1975, CMAL was merged to form Coal India Limited, and CMPDI attained the status of a public limited company under CIL with declared scope of its business under its Memorandum of Association broadly in line with its original proposal.
CMPDI functions through its corporate headquarters at Ranchi and its Regional Institutes (RIs) numbered 1 to 7 located at Asansol, Dhanbad, Ranchi, Nagpur, Bilaspur, Singrauli, and Bhubaneswar respectively-along with various field units and exploration camps.
The services of CMPDI fall under the following two broad heads.
(A) CMPDI's Business Functions, ie, the consultancy and support for mineral exploration, mining, infrastructure engineering, environmental management, and management systems, especially to the mineral, mining and allied sectors, both within and outside coal industry and the country.
(B) CMPDI's Corporate Responsibilities, ie, as follows.
Assisting Ministry of Coal (MoC) and Planning Commission for strategic decisions relating to coal-sector at the national level, eg, through maintaining inventories of coal deposits, coalmining potentials and operations, etc.
Functioning as a nodal agency on behalf of Government of India, eg, for schemes funded by MoC viz S&T projects, exploration work in non-CIL blocks, Environmental Measures and Subsidence Control (EMSC) projects, and CBM clearing house; and for projects funded by CIL R&D Board. Liaison between MoC, CIL, and sister coal producing companies on technical and operational matters. Working as an in-house planner and guide for coal-producing companies under CIL as their integral part.
So, the services of CMPDI are for any of the following purposes.
Services to pursue company's business activities.
Services to pursue research & development needs of the industry, either independently or in association with some external agency/body.
Services technically similar to the above, but undertaken as its corporate obligations.