Did you know Coal India limited or CIL’s total domestic coal production contribution is 85%, and it contributes 55% of the total power generation of the country. Not just this it also meets about 40% of India’s primary commercial energy needs. Coal India has an integral part in “Make in India” making it globally competitive. Asia’s largest open cast coal mine is operated by CIL at Gevra with 45 mn tonnes of coal production per annum. 

About Coal India limited

Coal India Limited (CIL) is one of the Maharatna company – it’s a privileged status conferred by Indian Government to few of the state owned enterprises to empower them further to expand their operations for global level and become a global giant. There are only 10 maharatna members out of more than 300 central public sector enterprises in India. 

Overall Coal India has ten fully owned Indian subsidiary companies, and they are:

  • Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL)
  • Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL)
  • Central Coalfields Limited (CCL)
  • Western Coalfields Limited (WCL)
  • South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL)
  • Northern Coalfields Limited (NCL)
  • Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL)
  • Central Mine Planning & Design Institute Limited (CMPDIL)
  • Coal India Limited – Navi Karniya Urja Limited for the development of non-conventional, clean & renewable energy
  • CIL Solar PV Limited for development of solar photovoltaic module

In addition to these, CIL also has a foreign subsidiary in Mozambique by the name of Coal India Africana Limitada (CIAL). It also has four Joint Venture companies, which are Hindustan Urvarak & Rasayan Limited, Talcher Fertilizers Limited, CIL NTPC Urja Private limited and Coal Lignite Urja Vikas Private Limited. North Eastern Coalfields (NEC) i.e. the mines in Assam are directly managed by CIL. Few of the subsidiary companies of CIL have further subsidiaries; like Mahanadi Coalfields Limited has four Subsidiaries, SECL has two and CCL has one subsidiary. 

Formation history of Coal India Limited 

Coal India Limited (CIL) is a state owned coal mining corporation which was formed in November of 1975. Starting with a modest production of 79 Million Tonnes (MTs) in the year of its inception; today CIL is the single largest coal producer in the world. It is also one of the largest corporate employers having a manpower of 248,550 (as of April, 2022). Coal India operates through its subsidiaries in 84 mining areas that are spread over 8 Indian states. Coal India Limited has 318 mines (as of 1st April 2022) of which 141 are underground, 158 are opencast, and 19 mixed mines. Coal India Limited also manages other establishments like workshops, hospitals, and more. Presently CIL has 21 training Institutes and around 76 Vocational Training Centres. The largest corporate training institute of India – Indian Institute of Coal Management (IICM) is a state-of-the-art Management Training ‘Centre of Excellence’ operates under CIL. It conducts multi-disciplinary programmes.

Coal India Limited’s production, growth & foray into renewable energy

There are 116 ongoing Mining projects of Coal India, having 915.36 MTY annual capacity that have contributed 456.28 MT in 2021-22. Apart from this, there are 161 completed mining projects with an annual capacity of 379.25 MTY. CIL Produces following products from its coal mining: Coking Coal, Semi coking coal, Non Coking Coal, Beneficiated coal, Cil Coke / LTC Coke, Coal Fines/ Coke Fines and Tar/ Heavy Oil/ Light Oil/ Soft Pitch

Consumer satisfaction for Coal India is of utmost priority and for enhanced consumer satisfaction, special focus has been given to Quality Management of Coal from the mine up to the dispatch point.

In India the coal reserves mostly come under either the forest land or in the tribal inhabited areas. Now coal mining displaces people, but in case of CIL it has a well-structured Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy for the people affected by the project. Coal India pursues ‘Mining with a human face’ via a socially sustainable inclusive model of growth. What they do is make the Project Affected People the stakeholders in the decision making process of their own livelihood. 

To foray towards renewable energy, Coal India is decarbonising the operations with solar energy generation. Four of its subsidiaries are doing solar energy production with a total of solar energy generation of 40 lac units in 2021-22. 

CIL is implementing a strong state of the art Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Hospital Management system in all of its subsidiaries and Coal India too. All the effort is aimed at assimilating all aspects of the business operations into a single easy to use system. That system shall effectively plan, manage and optimize all of the organizational resources via best practices and  standardization of business processes.

All these steps moving towards a sustainable future of producing energy are surely indicating that not only Coal India is pro business but also for long term growth & development. This clearly indicates that SME/MSME are always striving to be part of this growth by participating and bidding for the Coal India tenders. 

It should be noted that the focus states for Coal India where its most subsidiaries are located are majorly in West Bengal & Assam and other states being in southern, central and eastern parts of India. Assam mines i.e. North eastern coalfields being one of the important ones, are directly under control of Coal India Limited, offering a lot of business opportunities to SMEs to tap into the eastern part of the country. 

With such a huge geographical and infrastructural presence of Coal India, how can you as a SME/MSME ensure that you are not missing out on any important Coal India tender opportunities. 

It’s impossible to keep a track of all the important updates and even getting to notice the relevant tenders for your SME all by yourself or with your dedicated team as well can be really exhausting and yet not very productive and fruitful. That’s why you must login to BidAssist – the leading tender search platform not only in India but also globally.  

Brief about BidAssist

BidAssist covers and showcases more than 4 crore tenders that have been sourced from 50K+ sources globally. On an average, there are 150,000 active tenders in India and another 280,000 active tenders globally. BidAssist is by far the largest source of tenders, further categorised into 50+ categories. In addition to this, there are 76 Lacs (7.6 mn) tenders results in India and about  42 Lacs (4.2 mn) tender results globally. The content database for BidAssist is more than double of any other leading players. BidAssist has the largest database of tenders & tender results in India & Globally. Typically, Coal India Limited has over 20 active tenders at any given point in time. Till date Coal India Limited has released ~1500  tenders. In the year 2022, they released tenders worth 12,000 crores. 

How is finding relevant tender on BidAssist different from any competition

On BidAssis you can search for any tender absolutely FREE just like Google, unlike any other tender search platform where users can’t search tenders for free. For that matter, users can type in their relevant search term/keywords related to any tender even within BOQs (Bill of quantities). Though the BOQ search is enabled by default, you can always disable it by using the “More Filters” tab. Furthermore, there is an “exact search” option which can be used in case the search results are not relevant for you. So go ahead and immediately log in to BidAssist.com and start your tender search.

What notifications should you expect when you follow tenders

After you have found your relevant tenders on BidAssist.com, and then you are interested to get all the latest updates on development for a particular tender, all you need to do is to “follow” i.e ❤️ that tender. Once you follow a tender, you will start getting notifications on all the updates about the tender; be it the change of dates, corrigendums, result declaration w.r.t technical qualifications and of course the final result declaration.

Hope this helps you understand the business opportunity size and scope of Coal India tenders and why you must not wait any further to begin your tender search with BidAssist. BidAssist is a very transparent platform and in spite of all the efforts to aggregate tender information, it is a possibility that we shall miss a few tenders. If you let us know we will do everything possible to get that tender on our platform. For that just reach out to the BidAssist support team and share your query.