Three coal companies of Coal India Limited (CIL) namely Northern Coalfields Limited (NCL), Central Coalfields Ltd (CCL) and Western Coalfields Ltd (WCL) have received ‘Coal Minister’s Award’ from Union Minister of Coal & Mines Pralhad Joshi in a function held in New Delhi. The award has been instituted to promote the best and sustainable practices for coal mining in the country. Joshi also launched ‘Project Passion’–the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) of Coal India Ltd (CIL) which will help improve business performance and growth of the company with enhanced data integrity.
CIL arm NCL has been conferred upon the award for its outstanding performance in coal production & productivity, while its other arms CCL and WCL made it for adopting best safety practices and sustainable mining respectively.
ERP in Coal India is being implemented in two phases. While it was launched for CIL headquarters, WCL and Mahanadi Coalfields Limited on Thursday, it will be introduced in the rest six subsidiaries in August this year.
“Implementation of ERP will help CIL in real-time decision making, improving efficiency & reducing costs. It will empower CIL to achieve 1 billion tonnes coal production by FY 23-24 and make it one of the most efficient mining companies in today’s dynamic and ever-changing energy scenario,” said Joshi.
Secretary (Coal) Anil Kumar Jain; Chairman, CIL, Pramod Agarwal; CMD, NCL, P K Sinha; CMD, CCL, P M Prasad, CMD, WCL, Manoj Kumar and other dignitaries graced the occasion.
