Day: November 3, 2019

Northern Coalfields Limited (NCL) has developed an open theatre and new scenic lake ‘Sapphire’ in its Block-B Area.The lake, made into a splendid Chhath Ghat on the auspicious occasion of Chhath Pooja, was inaugurated by Chairman-cum-Managing Director NCL Shri P.K.Sinha on Saturday as Chief Guest. On this occasion, Shri Gunadhar Pandey, Director (Technical/Operations) NCL, Shri Nag Nath Thakur, Director (Finance/Personnel) NCL was present as guests of honour.   Addressing the inaugural ceremony, Shri P.K.Sinha congratulated one and all and said that construction of new Chhath Ghat in Block-B Area heralds…

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Honb’le Minister of Coal and Mines & Parliamentary Affairs , Government of India, Shri Pralhad Joshi has felicitated Northern Coalfields Limited on 45th Coal India Foundation Day in the ceremony held in Kolkata on Friday. CMD NCL Shri P.K.Sinha along with Team NCL received the award on behalf of the company. NCL has shone brightly at Coal India Foundation Day. By bagging 5 corporate awards, the company emerged as forerunner and won multiple awards on various performance parameters. NCL has been awarded the first prize in ‘Corporate Performance’, ‘Quality Awareness’…

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Northern Coalfields Limited celebrated Coal India’s 45th Foundation Day at company’s Headquarters premises on Friday. Floral tributes were paid to coal martyrs at ‘Shaheed Smarak’ and CIL flag was unfurled followed by singing of Corporate song in unison. Director (Technical/Operations) NCL Shri Gunadhar Pandey, Director (Finance/Personnel)NCL Shri Nag Nath Thakur, General Managers/HOD’s, Departmental Heads of HQ alongwith large number of employees were present on this occasion. Addressing the gathering, Shri Pandey said that with all round support from all the stakeholders, NCL has been a major contributor to overall coal…

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Northern Coalfields Limited is an active participant of Coal India delegation and Indian pavilion in International Mining And Resources Conference (IMARC 2019) held in Melbourne, Australia from 29th to 31st October. While Shri Bhartendu Kumar, General Manager (Excavation), Nigahi is part of the delegation; on pavilion front, the company featured through streaming of NCL corporate movie and visuals of its Dragline named ‘Balram’. Owing to the substantial content coupled with aesthetic layout, the pavilion witnessed large number of visits from mining stalwarts across the globe. NCL AT IMARC-2019 IN AUSTRALIA…

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CMD NCL Shri P.K.Sinha has said that after entering the 100 million tonne coal producer group in FY 2018-19, Northern Coalfields Limited (NCL) is confidently heading towards the achievement of its coal production and off-take targets of 106.25 million tonnes in current fiscal i.e 2019-20. Shri Sinha was interacting with media persons during the press conference at NCL Headquarters on Wednesday. Director (Technical/Operations) NCL, Shri Gunadhar Pandey, Director( Finance/Personnel) NCL Shri Nag Nath Thakur and Area General Managers, General Managers/Departmental Heads were also present in the conference. The CMD NCL…

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To truly be a bird, one needs more than wings. One needs a sense of what’s ‘out there’. Bird intuition is something humans will never possess—an excerpt from an article by Kevin Martin, a leading perspective provider of the contemporary world, deliberates on alignment of bird’s intuition with nature’s forces. From seasonal migration to choosing where to perch– bird’s intuition has always been a subject of research. Birds have a highly evolved sense of what enhances life. To go with it, an early morning picture captured today shows how exotic…

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Differing heights, complex compositions, uneven width, irregular formations– These are a few, out of several earth things, miners deal relentlessly and patiently round the clock. Tasked to tame the earth and keep the nation luminous, miners use brain over brawn to outwit the earth and win the coal. In mining terminology, ‘winning the coal’ means extracting coal out of the given coal property.

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In a rare visual frame from worksite, pictured together are 4 HEMM– Dragline, Shovel, Dumper & Drill– out of the many HEMM deployed at Nigahi OCP of Northern Coalfields Limited. Heavy Earth Moving Machineries (HEMM) are backbone of opencast coal mining operations. Apart from the four pictured in this frame, Dozer and Surface Miner are the other two vital heavy earthmovers forming part of HEMM fleet of NCL. NCL has large fleet of HEMM’s deployed in its 10 opencast coal producing areas. The company has 22 draglines, 110 shovel, 539…

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Northern Coalfields Limited organised a social dialogue with villagers to help understand developmental needs of villagers.  On this occasion, Non Official Part Time Director of NCL Prof.A.K.Agrawal was present as Chief Guest. Team NCL interacted with nearly 500 people from villages Birkuniya, Azgurh, Laliya Bazaar and Duma Tola.  Villagers were also sensitized of the ill effects of single use plastic and 500 cloth bags were distributed among them.

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