Dr. Hemant Sharad Pande assumes charge as Director (Personnel) of Western Coalfields Limited
Before assuming charge as Director (Personnel), Dr. Hemant Sharad Pande was serving as Area General Manager of the Raigarh Area of South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL), a subsidiary company of Coal India Limited.

Dr. Hemant Sharad Pande assumes charge as Director (Personnel) of Western Coalfields Limited
Dr. Hemant Sharad Pande assumed charge as Director (Personnel) of Western Coalfields Limited (WCL), a PSU under the Ministry of Coal, on 27.01.2025. On assumption of the charge, Dr Pande met CMD WCL Shri J. P. Dwivedi, who congratulated him and wished him the best in his future endeavors. WCL Directors & CVO too wished him on the occasion.
Before assuming charge as Director (Personnel), Dr. Hemant Sharad Pande was serving as Area General Manager of the Raigarh Area of South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL), a subsidiary company of Coal India Limited. Dr. Pande was recommended for the post of Director (Personnel) of WCL by the PESB selection panel from the pool of 10 candidates.
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Dr. Hemant Sharad Pande holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Mining from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur. He holds a postgraduate degree of Master of Business Administration and Master of Technology in Mining. He is a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Management.
He has further honed his managerial and leadership skills through Advanced Global Techno Management training at ESCP, a top Business School in Europe, and visited countries like France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands.
With a distinguished career spanning 35 Years across various coal subsidiaries of CIL, Dr Hemant Sharad Pande’s wealth of experience in technical knowhow, stakeholder expectations, employee engagement, contractual work intricacies, industrial relations and penchant desire for learning and development, is poised to hugely benefit not only Western Coalfields Limited but also the coal industry as a whole.
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