Context: Recently, the Coal India Subsidiary-Western Coalfields Ltd (WCL) has launched a surveillance system called WCL EYE for monitoring its mining operations and a mobile application named SAMVAAD to connect with its employees and stakeholders.
Key points of this initiative
- The company will infuse a total capital expenditure (Capex) of Rs. 849 crores on these projects which will generate direct employment for 647 persons.
- WCL has to produce 75 MT of coal by the financial year of 2023-24 and opening of these mines will certainly add to the efforts of the company reaching this milestone and will help Coal India achieve the target of 1 billion tonnes (BT) coal production by the financial year of 2023-24.
The three newly opened mines are-
- Adasa Mine, an underground open cast mine, in Nagpur Area of Maharashtra
- Sharda underground Mine in Kanhan Area
- Dhankasa underground mine in Pench Area of Madhya Pradesh.
About WCL EYE surveillance system
- A surveillance System named WCL EYE has been launched for monitoring the mining operations and it will monitor the operations of 15 major mines of the company round the clock that account for 70% of the company’s coal production and will help monitor the coal stocks.
About SAMVAAD App
- It is a mobile and desktop app for employees & stakeholders, which will provide a virtual platform for suggestion/feedback/experience sharing and quick response teams will respond to the queries and feedback in a seven days mandated period.