Who Am I


I have been associated with Coal India Limited through one or more of her subsidiaries for more than 40 years now. I started my career as a Junior mine engineer with CIL in 1973 and retired as General Manager in the year 2005.During this period I got the oprrtunity to work at various coal fields in India as well as visited mines around the world.

Post retirement I started up my own consultancy and served as chief consultant for Prakash Industry Limited,CGM in SEML  as well as VP-Mines in FECPL.

Papers Published

  1. Entitled “Necessity of Reclamation of Land Damaged by Mining Operations.” (NEWSEKTCH).
  2. Entitled “Use of Steel Tram Line Sleepers in Underground Mines – Mine Metal & Fuel”.
  3. Entitled “Mine Mechanization in Underground Mines of SECL with Special Reference to SDL” presented in the International Seminar on Mine Mechanization & productivity held at Banglore in 1991.
  4. "Hard Roof Management as tried in DATONG Coalfield.” Paper presented in ISM in 1995 and published by Institute of Engineers in their journal.
  5. “Proposed Amendments in Coal Mines Act & Regulation”. Paper presented in Seminar held at Bilaspur Regional Engineering College in 1995.
  6. “Strategy for improving the production in Underground Mine – Special reference to SECL”. Paper presented in National Seminar MINPROPS – 98 held at Chandrapur Engineering College, Chandrapur (February’98).
  7.  “Research and development in SECL” – Special item on SECL – Mine Metal & Fuel – July, 1999.
  8. “A Need For Realistic Assessment of Power Coal Demand” –Seminar held in 1999 Marketing of Indian Coal and its challenge - at Bilaspur (Year 1999).
  9. “Selective Mining of Power Coal by Opencast” – Seminar held in Nagpur (Year 2000).
  10. “Hard Roof Management for Higher Production from Underground” – Seminar held at Nagpur-Indian Mining
  11. Problem & Prospectus in MGMI Chapter (Year December 2002).
  12. “Mining Prospects during Xth and XIth Plan Period in SECL” – Refocusing on Technology and marketing activities for sustainable development of SECL – Seminar held in Bilaspur in 2002.

Key Achievements

  • Associated with World Bank project on behalf of SECL , CME China (PSLW project negotiation) , PSLW project of Russia
  • Registered as a Recognized Qualified Person to prepare mining plans by Ministry of Mines. Ref No. RQP/NGP/338/2005/A.
  • Registered as a Recognized Qualified Person to prepare mining plans by Ministry of Coal. Ref No. 34011/(23)/2005-CPAM.
  • Awarded UNDP Fellowship in Safety Engineering in September, 1985 and visited Turin (Italy, U.K., and West Germany
  • 41 years experience in Project appraisal, Techno – Economic evaluation of project report, coal linkage, long wall mining, Project planning and as Team Lead for ECL/SECL mines.

  Employment History

1)      General Manager (Land and Siding) @  South Eastern Coal Field Limited

Responsibilities held     
Ø  Acquisition of land for mining project.
Ø  Construction / Maintenance of  railway siding
Ø  Supervision of SECL projects constructed by RITES/IRCON
Ø  Railway related case regarding derailment, Railway claim , for service rent , rate tribunal case.

2)      OSD in Coal Controller Organization @  South Eastern Coal Field Limited

Responsibilities held     
Ø  Mine opening permission , coal grading , coal sampling under control of MOC

3)      Chief Mining Engineer / Dy.Chief Mining Engineer @  South Eastern Coal Field Limited

Roles and responsibilities held  
  Ø   Perspective planning and Project planning.
  Ø  Project monitoring, research and development, Coal linkage, Mine Operation Plan.
  Ø  Interaction with NIRM, CMRI and other research institute.
  Ø  Powered support to Long wall Mining requirement

4)      Dy.Chief Mining Engineer @  Central Mine Planning & Design Institute

Roles and responsibilities held  
Ø  Prepration of project report for approval by respective boards and PIB
Ø  Monitoring / Supervision /author of various projects
Ø  Name of some of the import project
o  SheethaldharaUG     0.8 MT
o  Khairaha                  0.58MT
o  Damini                     0.48MT
o  BherabandUG          0.6 MT
o  Kurja UG                 0.4 MT
o  Bangwar UG                        0.36MT
o  Navagaon                0.36MT
o  Amadnad                 0.3MT
o  Jhiria                        0.3 MT
o  Kanchan                  0.3 MT
o  Rajendar PSLW       0.6 MT
o  Balrampur PSLW     0.54MT
o  New Kumda                        0.54MT
o  Churcha                   0.64MT
o  PSLW failure report 0.64MT
o  Piparia                     0.24MT
Ø  Associated with world bank assisted projects
Ø  Associated with introduction of Mass – Production Technology
Ø  Preparation of Technical/techno Economics Report of different bidders
Ø  Interaction with Ministry of Coal etc.  
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