NCL’s CMD PK Sinha awarded with ‘COVID-19 Warrior Award’

New Delhi: Northern Coalfields Limited (NCL)'s Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) PK Sinha has been conferred with the 'COVID-19 Warrior Award' for numerous social initiatives taken by NCL under his leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. The award has been bestowed on Sinha by the Indian Achiever Forum and CSR Times.

NCL is a Singrauli-based subsidiary company of Coal India Limited (CIL) which produces more than 100 MT coal each year from its 10 opencast coal mines. Along with meeting their production and dispatch targets, the corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an integral part of its work and spends crore each year for the socio-economic development of society around it. During the recent COVID-19 pandemic, NCL under the dynamic leadership of Sinha is extending support to its nearby society by distributing ration masks, sanitizer, etc. and providing healthcare facilities in its hospitals and others.

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Indian Achiever Forum, a Delhi based organization, has conferred Sinha with COVID-19 Warrior Award for contribution by his company to fight COVID-19. He has a diverse experience of 36 years in mining and assumed the charge of CMD NCL in December 2017. Under his leadership, the company entered the coveted 100 million tonne coal group in FY 2018-19 and is constantly achieving its production targets.

Sinha has been awarded various awards during his tenure as Director (Technical/Project & Planning) of South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL). Sinha's paper on slope management was appreciated by MGMI. He has also presented various technical papers on coal in national and international forums.

Sinha has also represented the Indian Coal sector on various national and international forums.

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