Coal India Limited, a “Maharatna” PSU under the Ministry of Coal, has marked its fiftieth year of operations and entered its 51st, signalling a new phase of transformation. During the foundation-day event, G. Kishan Reddy, Union Minister for Coal and Mines, virtually inaugurated two Mine Developer & Operator (MDO) projects of CIL’s subsidiary, Eastern Coalfields Limited,  the Gopinathpur and Chinakuri mines under a revenue-sharing model. He also launched an Integrated Control & Command Centre equipped with AI-enabled CCTV systems for real-time oversight.

The Minister noted that over the past five decades, CIL has progressed from manual mining operations to automation-driven workflows. He emphasised that the coming decade will be critical amid the global energy transition, and urged the company to focus on innovation, technology adoption and business diversification beyond coal-only operations.

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CIL Chairman & Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Coal, Sanoj Kumar Jha, stated that the company currently supplies about 55 per cent of India’s coal-based energy requirements through mechanised operations. He underscored the need for CIL to evolve into areas such as renewable energy generation, coal-gasification and critical minerals development. As part of the celebrations, CIL’s research arm, Central Mine Planning & Design Institute (CMPDI), released a “Coal Atlas” featuring high-precision geological mapping of Indian coalfields, updated national resource and reserve estimates, an inventory of coal blocks and data-driven exploration outcomes.

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