• Shri Om Prakash Singh has taken over the charge of CMD, MCL w.e.f. 22.08.2022. He has also been entrusted with additional charge of Director (Technical/Operation) w.e.f. 23.08.2022. Prior to that he was the Director (Technical), MCL w.e.f. 1st September, 2016 and was entrusted with the additional charge of CMD, MCL from 01.01.2022 till 21.08.2022.
• Shri Singh is having qualification of Bachelor of Engineering (Mining) from Ravishankar University, Raipur and holder of First Class Mine Manager's Certificate of Competency under the Mines Act from Directorate General of Mines Safety, Dhanbad. Shri Singh has also acquired Master degree in Business Administration (Marketing Management) and Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications.
• He comes with a rich work experience spanning 32 years in the fields of mine planning, production, management, supervision, direction and control of underground as well as open cast coal mines. He has worked with SECL/CMPDIL, for 32 years.
• After joining Coal India Limited in August 1984, he rose rapidly and has handled various senior positions like General Manager of different Areas at SECL and heading different departments at Corporate Office i.e. Environment, Production and Planning.
• He has also undergone training programme on Project Management and other general management courses.

• Shri Om Prakash Singh has taken over the charge of Director (Technical), Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL), a leading subsidiary of Coal India Limited, on 1st September, 2016.
• Shri Singh is Bachelor of Engineering (Mining) from Ravishankar University, Raipur and holder of First Class Mine Manager's Certificate of Competency under the Mines Act from Directorate General of Mines Safety, Dhanbad. Shri Singh has also acquired Master degree in Business Administration (Marketing Management) and Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications. He comes with a rich work experience spanning 32 years in the fields of mine planning, production, management, supervision, direction and control of underground as well as open cast coal mines. He has worked with SECL/CMPDIL, for 32 years.
• After joining Coal India Limited in August 1984, he rose rapidly and has handled various senior positions like General Manager of different Areas at SECL and heading different departments at Corporate Office i.e. Environment, Production and Planning.
• He has also undergone training programme on project management and other general management courses.

• He was born in Chennai on 17th July, 1962. He passed his Bachelor in Commerce (Hons) from Ravenshaw College, Cuttack with first class. He obtained his professional degree from the Institute of Cost Accountants of India in the year 1989 and also passed L.LB from Utkal University.
• He comes with a rich work experience spanning more than three decades in various fields of Finance in different sectors such as State (Odisha State Electricity Board), public (Coal India Limited) and Private (Paradeep Phosphates Limited). It is worth mentioning that his experience covers three core industries of national economic importance (Power, Coal and Fertilizers).
• From February 1982 to October 1987, he has worked in Talcher Thermal Power Station / Talcher Electricity Division under the erstwhile Orissa State Electricity Board. (Now under National Thermal power Corporation) in the areas of Revenue Accounting, Cost & Budget, MIS and Accounts finalization. He played a very crucial role in the exercise for reconciliation of long outstanding disputes culminating the signoff between OSEB and SECL. Undergone on the job training imparted by M/s. AF Ferguson Co. on the new accounting procedure of OSEB recommended by Central Electricity Authority.
• From October 1987 to July 2008, he worked under South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL) and Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) in different functional areas (Project Area and Corporate Office) in Costing, Treasury, and Accounts finalization. He was instrumental in computerization of Piece Rated wages and also instrumental in introducing e-payments in Mahanadi Coalfields Limited. As Head of the Corporate Treasury, he was responsible for investment of surplus funds.
• In July, 2008 he joined Paradeep Phosphates Limited (PPL). Prior to re-joining MCL, he was working in PPL as HOD (Finance) in the Plant and Joint General Manager (Internal Audit) wherein he has played crucial role in post SAP implementation improvements in many areas, CAPEX monitoring, Contracts management. As Joint General Manager (Internal Audit), he was actively involved in implementing Enterprise Risk Management.
• He was entrusted with the position of Director (Personnel) of MCL for around a year and Director (Finance) of Bharat Coking Coal Limited, Jharkhand for more than a month in 2019. He is also presently serving as the Director (Finance) of Central Coalfields Limited, Jharkhand since July 2021. Additionally, he is currently the Chairman of MNH Shakti Limited and MJSJ Coal Limited, subsidiaries of MCL. He has also donned the role of Chairman of CSR Sub-committee of MCL Board of Directors.

• Shri Jugal Kumar Borah has taken over the charge of Director(Technical), Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL), a Subsidiary of Coal India Limited, on 19th April 2022 and he was entrusted with the charge of Director (Project & Planning), MCL on 21st April 2022.
• Shri Borah, before taking over the charge on elevation as the Director(Technical/Project & Planning), MCL, was posted in Coal India Limited HQ, Kolkata as General Manager(Production).
• Shri Borah is having 35 years of rich experience in the Underground as well as Opencast Projects and has served at different important positions in North East Coalfields (NEC) and Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL), Dhanbad.
•  Shri Borah is resident of Nagaon District in Assam and has done his schooling from Sainik School, Golpara and Bachelor of Engineering (Mining) from NIT Nagpur in the year 1987. He holds First Class Mine Manager’s Certificate of Competency from DGMS, Dhanbad in the year 1991. He had also obtained Competency Certificate in Coal Mine Safety from JICA, Japan in the year 1996 and did Diploma in Project Management from George Washington University, USA in the year 2013.

• Shri Keshav Rao is an alumnus of I.I.T. Bombay and IIM, Ahmadabad. He holds a PG diploma in HR. He started his career with a brief stint of one year in the private sector followed by two years with Steel Authority of India Ltd. Thereafter he joined Indian Telecom Service where he served for about twenty-six years.
• He took charge as Director (Personnel), Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL) w.e.f December 2019 and handling various functions such as Industrial Relations, Human Resource Management & Development, Corporate Social Responsibility, Public Relations, Welfare, Land acquisition, Liaison with Government and other authorities, Security, Industrial Engineering, Communication networks, Legal affairs, Formulation of Policies and Corporate level decision making as a member of the MCL Board.
• He is the HR head for around 21787 workforce of Mahanadi Coalfields Limited. He has introduced various HR and IT initiatives in MCL and contributed to improving business processes through systemic improvement and effective utilisation of Human Resources. These efforts resulted in enhancing the employee engagement level and organisational productivity. During the financial year, MCL has achieved highestever 168 million tonnes of coal production with an impressive growth of about 14% over the previous fiscal 2020-21.
• He has received appreciation from the Minister of Coal, Mines & Parliamentary Affairs and the Minister of State for Rail, for achieving the highest dispatching record of 6.25 lakh tonnes of coal to consumers on 28/10/2021. He was also conferred the CSR Leader of the Year award by “Governance Now” for the CSR initiatives in MCL. During the pandemic time, he has shown a proactive leadership approach and ensured all needful assistance to State Govt, Center Govt to combat the covid-19 crisis.
• Prior to joining MCL, he served as a Director in the Central Vigilance Commission, New Delhi from 2010 to 2015. As Director of CVC, he was associated with vigilance matters of all organizations under the coal ministry and assisted the commission in driving many vigilance reforms. He has also served as the Chief Vigilance Officer of four organizations under the ministry of civil aviation viz. Pawan Hans Ltd., DGCA, IGRUA and Airport Authority of India.
• Later as a General Manager (personnel) in BSNL he handled HR matters of around 50,000 executives. He was instrumental in the resolution of many legal bottlenecks which facilitated an end to long-pending cases leading to over 10,000 promotions within 3 months. He also contributed to the formulation of a new promotion policy. He has attended various training programmes/conferences in US, UK, France Austria and Portugal. He has delivered training courses in HR to international audiences in South Africa, IIM-Sambalpur, IICM Ranchi, Northern Coalfields Limited etc.
• He served as an editor of the CVC’s newsletter Vigeye Vani. He headed committees set up to examine delays in disciplinary proceedings across various government organizations and also was a member of the committee for drafting of vigilance manual released by CVC in 2017.
• He also served as secretary to the Vigilance Study Circle Delhi NCR. He has been delivering lectures on various topics of HR and vigilance in several organizations.

• Pursuant to letter No. 21/20/2001-BA/ESTT dated 27.01.2023 of Under Secretary to Govt. of India, Shri Mukesh Choudhary, Director (Marketing), CIL has been appointed as Director on MCL Board w.e.f. 27.01.2023.
• Mr. Mukesh Choudhary took over as Director (Marketing), Coal India Limited (CIL), the state-owned Maharatna coal mining behemoth on and from 23rd December 2022(A/N)
• Prior to taking up the reins of the CIL marketing division’s top slot, he was Deputy Director General, Department of Defence Production, and Ministry of Defence.
• Mr. Choudhary assumed the charge from Dr. B. Veera Reddy, Director (Technical) CIL who was additionally officiating as Director (Marketing) since May of this year. An Officer of Indian Ordnance Factory Services (IOFS) 1996 batch, Mr. Choudhary is a Mechanical Engineering (Honours) graduate from Engineering College Kota
• He also holds a Master of Financial Analysis (MFA) degree and a MBA degree. Importantly for CIL, Mr. Choudhary is well versed in the finer nuances of country’s coal demand supply chain and of CIL’s marketing system on the back of his six and half year exposure as Director (Coal Production and Despatch) in the Ministry of Coal where his functions included monitoring coal supplies, transport logistics and marketing policies. He also served on the boards of three government-owned coal companies – MCL, SECL, NLTPL, NCL, SCCL and CMDPI.
• At a time when CIL’s coal supplies have peaked to record high levels, especially to the major coal-consuming power sector, and coal demand is expected to shoot up, spurred by the increased electricity generation in the country, Mr. Choudhary’s experience will help in tackling the challenging issues.

• Shri M. Nagaraju is an IAS officer belonging to Tripura cadre. After graduating in Economics and post-graduation in Philosophy from the University of Hyderabad, he joined IAS in 1993.
• Over a period of more than 25 years, he had the opportunity to serve at local, state, national and international level in the areas of public order, revenue & development administration, tribal development, development finance, international economic relations, Industries and commerce, healthcare and State finances.
• In the State Government, he served as District Magistrate, Director, Tribal Welfare, Secretary /Principal Secretary of Health, Women and Child Development, Finance and Industries & Commerce.
• During 2004-08, he served in the Ministry of Finance, Department of Economic Affairs as Director Japan/North America and Director in the World Bank Division. Thereafter, he worked as Advisor to the Executive Director at the World Bank in Washington DC till 2012.
• He was a visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, USA for one year in 2012-13 and Visiting Research Scholar in Stonehill College in 2018-19. During his sabbatical, he has conducted research on the context and impact of 1991 economic reforms and liberalization of Indian economy and also on Indian Tribal Development and Autonomous District Councils.
• He has been working as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Coal since 30th January, 2020 and has been nominated on the Board of Mahanadi Coalfields Limited.