Chairman-cum-Managing Director
After graduation in Mining Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur in 1976, Sri A.N. Sahay joined Coal India Ltd. in Aug’76. He has over 35 years of experience in Coal Industry covering Operations, Planning and Project implementation.
He has extensive exposure to handling of international agreements in coal sector for project formulation and project implementation. He has successfully handled project execution in Tanzania for “Exploration of Mchuchuma coalfield and preparation of feasibility report for the mine and pit head thermal power plant”.
He has worked as the Coal Controller with Govt. of India, which entails administration of various Statutes like Colliery Control Order 2000, Coal Mines (Conservation and Development) Act, 1974 and the related rules, Coal Bearing Areas Act, 1957, Collection of Statistics Act, 1953 etc. In addition, he has handled challenging task of monitoring and facilitating expeditious development of captive coal blocks.
He has also served as Director (Technical) in CMPDI from November 2007 to February 2011 when he was looking after R&D and S&T activities in coal sector, coal preparation as well as new technology initiatives like CBM/CMM, UCG etc. in Coal India Ltd. His initiatives in the field of S&T and R&D in coal sector has resulted in multifold increase in activities in this field and on account of this CMPDI has been nominated for SCOPE Meritorious Award for R&D, Technology Development and Innovation for the year 2009-10. Under his leadership construction of washeries under BOM got real boost and expeditious steps has resulted in award for construction of one washery while seven more are likely to be awarded soon. Sri Sahay was actively associated in development of coal based non-conventional energy resource like CBM, CMM, VAM, UCG etc and with his endeavour UNDP/GEF-GOI funded CBM/CMM project at Moonidih mine of BCCL has been successfully implemented which proved efficacy of CMM development in Indian geo-mining conditions. His initiatives have paved way for commercial development of UCG and CMM within CIL command area.
Sri Sahay is presently working as Chairman-cum-Managing Director of Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd, which is one of the largest coal producing company in India.
He has extensive exposure to handling of international agreements in coal sector for project formulation and project implementation. He has successfully handled project execution in Tanzania for “Exploration of Mchuchuma coalfield and preparation of feasibility report for the mine and pit head thermal power plant”.
He has worked as the Coal Controller with Govt. of India, which entails administration of various Statutes like Colliery Control Order 2000, Coal Mines (Conservation and Development) Act, 1974 and the related rules, Coal Bearing Areas Act, 1957, Collection of Statistics Act, 1953 etc. In addition, he has handled challenging task of monitoring and facilitating expeditious development of captive coal blocks.
He has also served as Director (Technical) in CMPDI from November 2007 to February 2011 when he was looking after R&D and S&T activities in coal sector, coal preparation as well as new technology initiatives like CBM/CMM, UCG etc. in Coal India Ltd. His initiatives in the field of S&T and R&D in coal sector has resulted in multifold increase in activities in this field and on account of this CMPDI has been nominated for SCOPE Meritorious Award for R&D, Technology Development and Innovation for the year 2009-10. Under his leadership construction of washeries under BOM got real boost and expeditious steps has resulted in award for construction of one washery while seven more are likely to be awarded soon. Sri Sahay was actively associated in development of coal based non-conventional energy resource like CBM, CMM, VAM, UCG etc and with his endeavour UNDP/GEF-GOI funded CBM/CMM project at Moonidih mine of BCCL has been successfully implemented which proved efficacy of CMM development in Indian geo-mining conditions. His initiatives have paved way for commercial development of UCG and CMM within CIL command area.
Sri Sahay is presently working as Chairman-cum-Managing Director of Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd, which is one of the largest coal producing company in India.