The Public Enterprises Selection Board (PSEB) recommended Central Coalfields CMD Polavarapu Mallikharjuna Prasad as the next Chairman and Managing Director of Coal India (CIL). Prasad is expected to take the charge of India’s largest coal miner accounting for almost 80 per cent of the mined commodity from July 1.
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A mining engineer from Osmania university, Prasad took over as the CCL CMD on September 1, 2020, and has more than three decades of experience in the mining sector. He is credited with diverting Nallah at the Hingula opencast area to unleash a 26 million tonnes (MT) coal deposit in FY15, as well as the start of a new railway siding at the Talcher Coalfields.
About the Polavarapu Mallikharjuna Prasad
Prasad also took over as the CMD of Bharat Coking Coal (BCCL) in August 2019. Both CCL and BCCL are subsidiaries of CIL. Prasad will take over the baton from serving CMD Pramod Agrawal, whose term ends on June 30, 2023. Agrawal is a Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS official who took over as CMD of the mining powerhouse in January 2020 from Anil Kumar Jha. He is the third Indian Administrative Service officer to hold the top position at CIL.
Important takeaways for all competitive exams:
• Coal India Headquarters: Kolkata;
• Coal India Founded: November 1975.
