B Sairam selected for Coal India Next CMD

New Delhi, September 20, 2025: PESB today picks the Next Chairman and Managing Director of India's largest coal producer and Maharatna PSU, Coal India Limited. The board recommended the name of B Sairam for the Coal India CMD, who is currently serving as the Chairman-cum-Managing Director of Northern Coalfields Limited.

Currently, P M Prasad is holding the position of Chairman and Managing Director in CIL. His tenure is ending on 31.10.2025 and Superannuating on the same day, i.e., 31.10.2025.

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Brief Profile of B. Sairam-NCL CMD (Current)

Shri B. Sairam is the Chairman-cum-Managing Director of Northern Coalfields Limited, the Singrauli-based flagship Subsidiary of Coal India Limited. He brings a vast reservoir of knowledge and experience spanned over 33 years of dedicated service in the coal sector. A distinguished graduate mining engineer from NIT Raipur, Shri Sairam has traversed various domains within the coal industry, including mine operations, planning, logistics, and regulatory affairs.

Before he was appointed as CMD of NCL, he was serving as Director (Technical) in Ranchi based Central Coalfields Limited where he played pivotal roles in stepping-up company’s organic growth, development of coal logistics like tripling of Tori-Shivpur Line thus augmenting coal dispatch to upcountry power consumers, First Mile Connectivity projects including North Urimiri CHP-Silo, Forest & Environment Clearance, and projectising greenfield and brownfield mines.

Shri Sairam has been instrumental in community development projects and aligning Coal India’s sustainability vision with UN sustainability goals during his stint as Executive Director at CIL. He has also spearheaded key divisions such as Employee Welfare, Public Relations, and Legal.

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The Public Enterprise Selection Board (PESB) interviewed applicants from Coal India, MECL, NCL, CCL, NALCO, NMDC, Indian Oil, PFC, Principal Commissioner of Income Tax, and Treasury and Reconciliation, Railways.

The following applicants are:

• Mukesh Choudhary, Director (Marketing), Coal India Limited

• Indra Dev Narayan, Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Mineral Exploration And Consultancy Limited (Mecl)

• B Sairam, Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Northern Coalfields Limited

• Nilendu Kumar Singh, Chairman & Managing Director, CCL, Central Coalfields Limited

• Pankay Kumar Sharma, Director (Production), National Aluminium Company Limited

• Vishwanath Suresh, Director (Commercial), NMDC Limited

• Vinay Kumar, Director (Technical), NMDC Limited

• Anuj Jain, Director (Finance), Indian Oil Corporation Limited

• Hemant Kumar Das, Executive Director (Projects), Power Finance Corporation Limited

• Alok Singh, Principal Commissioner of Income Tax - 1, Rajkot, Finance (M/O)

• Dr. Pudi. Hariprasad, Chief Administration Officer CAO/Treasury and Reconciliation, Railways (M/O)

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