Neyveli: “Sustainable development of coal / lignite mining is the need of the hour,” said Neyveli Lignite Corporation India Ltd (NLCIL) and Coal India Ltd former CMD M P Narayanan.
He said this while inaugurating the two-day National Mining Seminar at NLCIL’s Learning and Development Center in Neyveli recently.
The seminar, which was on the topic, sustainable coal / lignite mining scenario, technology, issues and approach, was organised keeping the objective on sustainable mining and the worldwide trend.
Narayanan expressed his concern on the productivity standards, implementation of artificial intelligence, robotics, internet of things (IoT). He also appreciated the measures of NLCIL for the reclamation and restoration of fertility to the mined out lands.
NLCIL CMD Rakesh Kumar, in his presidential address, informed that requirement of power is increasing and essential for India’s economic development. “Presently, Coal / lignite accounts for 65 per cent of power generated for utilities and captive power plants. Therefore, keeping in view the environmental issues and rising costs, power from coal / lignite in future should be through innovative ways to enhance efficiency and bringing down the cost to make it a cleaner and competitive source,” he said.