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.

Source: https://pib.gov.in/