Hon’ble Minister for Coal, Mines and Parliamentary Affairs, Shri Pralhad Joshi, launched NIC developed online portal ‘Star Rating of Coal Mines’, on 10th February, 2020 at Parliament House Annexe.

The portal will work as a tool to promote green, safe & sustainable coal mining practices in the country. All coal companies will upload the information and all processing and evaluation of information will be online. The portal will provide a login to each coal mine for self-evaluation along with necessary documents for testimonials. The field offices of CCO will be provided a separate login to the web portal through which they can access the submissions of self-evaluation. A validation committee constituted through CCO will put the final remarks based on the laid down policy and finally the star rating will be recorded on the portal.

Shri Pramod Agrawal, Chairman CIL, Shri Anil Kumar Jain, Secretary (Coal), Shri Vinod Kumar Tiwari, Additional Secretary (Coal), Shri Anindya Sinha, Advisor(Projects), Shri Deep Bansal, Senior Technical Director, NIC were present on the occasion.