Team News Riveting
Sambalpur, January 1
O P Singh, Director (Technical/Operations), Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) on Saturday assumed the additional charge of company’s Chairman-cum-Managing Director.
A mining engineer with a First Class competency certificate from the DGMS, an MBA in Marketing and PG DCA, Singh has held various senior positions in mine planning and production management in both underground and opencast projects during his long experience of about 37 years in the coal industry.
Before joining MCL as Director (Technical) in 2016, he had served for more than 32 years in Bilaspur (CG)-headquartered South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL) and Coal Mine Planning and Design Institute Limited (CMPDI), Bilaspur.
Soon after assuming charge, the new CMD chaired a meeting with the senior officers and union representatives. Keshav Rao, Director (Personnel) and P K Patel, CVO, MCL were prominent among senior officers present in the meeting.
Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) will achieve new milestones and emerge as Numero Uno coal company in 2022, Singh said after assuming the additional charge of Chairman-cum-Managing Director.
Singh, while chairing his first coordination meeting with Area GMs, members of Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) and Welfare Board, extended new year wishes and said MCL had played a pivotal role during the trying times in 2021 and would continue to remain the flag bearer of Coal India in the year ahead.
The CMD appreciated the synergy between workers, officers and trade union representatives in the company.
While MCL would continue to excel in all parameters vis-à-vis production, dispatch and overburden removal, Singh said, “Safety of workers and employee welfare measures are to be considered as priority areas.”
In this regard, he informed that a new department of Civil-Welfare has been created at MCL headquarters to look after the welfare of the employees and town administration.
Earlier, Singh was received by Keshav Rao, Director (Personnel) and P K Patel, CVO, on his arrival to assume charge of the CMD.
He also inspected the ceremonial guard of honour and visited various departments at headquarters to extend New Year greetings to the officers and staff.
