Shri Chiranjib Patra (Director)

Shri Chiranjib Patra (Director)

Shri Chiranjib Patra is a Mining Engineer from IIEST Shibpur. He has experience of 34 years in the coal mining industry including experience as Mine Planning & Design Consultant.

His experience includes, working in underground coal mine, preparation & appraisal of Coal & Metal mining projects and R&D projects for subsidiaries of Coal India Limited (CIL), IISCO-SAIL, MOIL India Limited, etc., preparation of policy documents for CIL viz. model bid documents for development and extraction of coal from mines on risk-gain, hiring, turnkey & mine-developer-cum-operator (MDO) basis, support to Ministry of Coal (MoC) for allocation of coal blocks, vetting of Mining Plans & technical matters, working as a consultant to ECL, BCCL and SECL for undertaking CBM projects, implementation of pilot scale R&D project on underground Coal Gasification in Eastern Coalfields Limited.

He is presently holding the position of ED (Corporate Affairs & Business Development) at CIL as part of the Business Development Division of CIL. In in present profile, he is undertaking diversification initiatives in Coal-to-Chemical Projects, Acquisition of Critical Mineral Assets, Thermal Power Projects and Renewable Projects.

In addition to HURL, he is serving as a part-time Director on the Board of Talcher Fertilizers Limited.