NLCIL holds 2-day nat'l mining seminar

Chennai: While inaugurating a two-day national mining seminar at NLC India Limited at Learning and Development Centre at Neyveli on Saturday former CMD NLCIL and Coal India Ltd MP Narayanan stressed that sustainable development of coal/lignite mining is the need of the hour.

The two-day seminar on 'sustainable coal/lignite mining scenario, technology, issues and approach' was organised by NLCIL at Neyveli, keeping the objective on sustainable mining and the worldwide trend.

In his inaugural address, Narayanan expressed his concern on the productivity standards, implementation of artificial intelligence, robotics, Internet of Things (IoT).

In his presidential address, NLC India Ltd CMD Rakesh Kumar informed that requirement of power is increasing and essential for India's economic development.