Meet Anandji Prasad, New Director (Technical/Project & Planning) of WCL
Prasad served as a Project Advisor in the Ministry of Coal (MoC) since July 2021

Shri Anandji Prasad, Director (Technical / Project & Planning), WCL
Shri Anandji Prasad assumed charge of Director (Technical / Project & Planning) in WCL on 21.01.2025. WCL CMD Shri JP Dwivedi, Director (Technical) Operations Shri AK Singh, Director (Finance / Personnel) Shri Bikram Ghosh, CVO Shri Ajay Madhukar Mhetre, General Managers, HoDs and others congratulated him and wished him the best for his new assignment.
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Backstory of Anandji Prasad:
Before joining WCL, Shri Prasad served as a Project Advisor in the Ministry of Coal (MoC) since July 2021. At the Coal Ministry, he was instrumental in formulating various policies, schemes, and initiatives and is actively pursuing several policy interventions in cthe oal and energy sector.
Shri Anandji Prasad is a Graduate Mining Engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and has obtained First Class Coal Mine Manager's Certificate of Competency in 1994. He is an experienced and knowledgeable person having an overall professional experience of about 35 years in coal & energy sectors with post graduate diplomas in Management as well as Computer Applications. He is also a law graduate from Ranchi University, obtained his degree in 2010.
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Shri Prasad began his career as an executive trainee in 1989 with Central Mine Planning and Design Institute Limited (CMPDIL), a subsidiary of Coal India Limited (CIL). With diverse experience in planning, design of coal & metal mines as well as coal mine operations & management, he has been the key person in formulation of several policies, roadmaps, vision documents of coal and energy sector for CIL and Ministry of Coal.
He has been actively involved in introduction of continuous miner technology in underground mines and formulation of model MDO documents for CIL mines. He took initiatives for several innovative interventions in CIL and coal sector, like Digital Transformation in seven opencast mines of CIL, re-opening of discontinued mines, NABL accreditation of Mining Laboratory at CMPDIL.
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