Sustainable Mining Practices and Innovations

Sustainable Mining Practices and Innovations

Innovative mining techniques or technologies adopted to reduce environmental and ecological impact includes:

Coal/Lignite PSUs under the guidance of the Ministry of Coal (MoC) have undertaken various environmentally sustainable measures which inter-alia include:

In order to strengthen the mine closure and repurposing activities collaboration with World Bank and GIZ is being done to implement global best practices. Coal India Limited (CIL) has MoU’s with expert agencies of repute like NEERI, ICFRE etc. to assist in taking up various specific assignments of coal sector, research & development and capacity building of CIL executives in various emerging areas of environmental management. CIL has engaged ICFRE for scientific project of “Standardization of Package and Practices for Eco-rehabilitation of Degraded Coal Mines falling under different Agro-climatic Zones of India through Forestry Interventions”.

This information was given by Union Minister of Coal and Mines Shri G. Kishan Reddy in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.