Coal India Limited (CIL) is the largest coal producer in the world. It was established in 1975 by the Indian government taking over private coal mines. CIL has grown from producing 79 MT in 1975 to operating 81 mining areas across 8 states in India. It has 7 subsidiaries and 1 mine planning company and also owns a mining company in Mozambique. CIL manages over 200 establishments and training institutes across India. The current Chairman of CIL is Sutirtha Bhattacharya and it has 7 other directors overseeing different functions.

1. COAL INDIA LIMITED
Coal India Limited (CIL) as an organized state owned coal mining corporate came
into being in November 1975 with the government taking over private coal mines.
With a modest production of 79 Million Tonnes (MTs) at the year of its inception CIL
today is the single largest coal producer in the world. Operating through 81 mining
areas CIL is an apex body with 7 wholly owned coal producing subsidiaries and 1
mine planning and consultancy company spread over 8 provincial states of India. CIL
also fully owns a mining company in Mozambique christened as 'Coal India Africana
Limitada'. CIL also manages 200 other establishments like workshops, hospitals etc.
Further, it also owns 26 technical & management training institutes and 102
Vocational Training Institutes Centres. Indian Institute of Coal Management (IICM) as
a state-of-the-art Management Training 'Centre of Excellence' - the largest
Corporate Training Institute in India - operates under CIL and conducts multi
disciplinary management development programmes.BY: Tulika Paul
Mba(IT) Section A
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2. BOARD OF DIRECTORS
• Shri Sutirtha Bhattacharya(CHAIRMAN & MANAGING DIRECTOR)- Shri Sutirtha
Bhattacharya, an IAS officer of 1985 (Telangana cadre), formally assumed the charge as
Chairman-cum-Managing Director of the coal mining monolith Coal India Limited on 5
January 2015. A Physics graduate from Presidency College, Kolkata he has vast and
varied experience in different sectors in governance. He had been Managing Director of
Nizam Sugar Factories, Commissioner of Industries, Secretary in-charge of Irrigation
Department, the biggest infrastructure department in Andhra Pradesh. Prior to this he
was CMD of the Telangana based Singareni Collieries Company Limited since 10 May
2012.
• Shri Chandan Kumar Dey(Director -Finance)- Shri Chandan Kumar Dey, Director
(Finance), Coal India Limited was born in Kolkata on 10th September, 1958. Prior to
joining Coal India Limited on 1st March, 2015, Shri Dey served Eastern Coalfields
Limited as Director (Finance) for 2 years. He completed his schooling from Kendriya
Vidyalaya in 1975 and graduated from Calcutta University in Commerce with Honours in
Accountancy in the year 1978. He is a Chartered Accountant and Cost Accountant. He
has wide experience of over 34 years and served in different organisations of repute
including Lovelock & Lewes, Dunlop India Limited, NICCO Group, Balmer Lawrie & Co.
Limited and Oil India Limited.
• Shri Nagendra Kumar(Director –Technical)- He has graduated Mining Engineering
(B.Tech – Mining) from Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad in the year 1980. He joined CCL
as junior Executive Trainee in 1980. In his first 20 years in CCL, he has worked for

3. • Shri R Mohan Das(Director-Personnel & Industrial Relation)- Mr. R. Mohan Das, aged
53 years, is the Director (Personnel & Industrial Relations) of CIL. Holding a post
graduate degree in social work from Madurai University, Mr. Das began his
professional career over three decades ago with Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited in
their human resources department.
• Shri S N Prasad, Director(Director-Marketing)-Shri S.N. Prasad is an MBA (Marketing)
and has joined as Management Trainee (Marketing) in the year 1982 in Coal India
Limited. He has been working in the field of marketing for more than 33 years and
gained experience from working in the mines - pit heads, coal stock yards, CHPs etc.
and to Corporate Office of subsidiaries. He has worked in the CIL subsidiaries of
Central Coalfields Limited, Western Coalfields Limited and South Eastern Coalfields
Limited on various positions including General Manager (S&M) before joining as
Director (Marketing) in Coal India Limited.
• Dr. A. K. Dubey(Government Nominee Director)-Dr. A. K. Dubey belongs to Kerala
cadre of lAS. He has held various positions in Government of Kerala and Government
of India. He had been Secretary(Taxes), Secretary(Expenditure), Principal
Secretary(Finance) and Principal Secretary (Forests and wild Life) in Government of
Kerala.
• Ms. Loretta Mary Vas(Independent Director)- Ms. Loretta is graduate in B.A. (English),
B.Ed., M.A.(Economics), Masters Diploma in Public Administration, M. Phil (Social
Sciences) and LLB. She has joined Indian Administrative Service in 1977 and allotted
to U.P. cadre. She has worked as Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, GoI, during
2012-14. She was Special Secretary, Addl. Secretary, Department of Economics

4. • Vinod Jain(Independent Director)-He is commerce graduate with Honours from Shri Ram
College of Commerce in 1976 and passed LLB in 1979. He passed CA Intermediate
Examination in November'1977 with 7th Rank in all India Merit List, Final Examination in
November'1979 with 13th Rank on All India merit list and became a Fellow Member of The
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He qualified in Company Secretary Examination
in December 1979 and became Fellow Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of
India. He is also a qualifiedin Cost Accountant exam in the year 1983 and became a Fellow
Member of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India. He is Diploma holder in Information
System Audit(DISA) from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India in 2004.
• Prof. D. C. Panigrahi(Independent Director)-He obtained his B. Tech in Mining Engineering
in 1984 from Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad. Subsequently, he did his M. Tech in Mining
Engineering in 1990,M. Tech in Industrial Engineering and Management in 1992 from
Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad. He did his Ph. D in Mining Engineering from Indian
School of Mines, Dhanbad in the year 1994. After graduating from Indian School of Mines,
Dhanbad he served as Assistant Manager in coal mines of Tata Iron and Steel Company
Limited for a period of 3½ years, as Scientist in erstwhile Central Mining Research Institute,
Dhanbad, a CSIR lab., for a period of 4½ years and subsequently joined as Assistant
Professor in the Department of Mining Engineering, ISM, Dhanbad in 1992.
• Dr. Khanindra Pathak(Independent Director)-Dr. Pathak is B. Tech. in Mining Machinery
from Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad in 1983 and M. Tech. in Opencast Mining from
Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad in 1989. Dr. Pathak is Diploma holder in Mining
Engineering from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London. He has
also done Ph.D in Mining Engineering in the year 1996 from Imperial College of Science,

5. • Dr. S.B. Agnihotri(Independent Director)-He has done his Master's degree in Physics
followed by M.Tech in Environment Science and Engineering from IIT, Bombay. He
later did an MA in Rural Development followed by a Ph.D on sex ratio patterns in
Indian Population from School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia,
Norwich UK. Dr. Satish B. Agnihotri retired as Secretary (Coordination & Public
Grievances), Cabinet Secretariat.
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