DR.M.P.NARAYANAN ELECTED AS VICE CHAIRMAN OF WORLD MNING CONGRESS (WMC)

DR.M.P.NARAYANAN ELECTED AS VICE CHAIRMAN OF WORLD MNING CONGRESS (WMC)

New Delhi December 6, 2005 Dr M.P.Narayanan, former chairman Coal India Limited (CIL) has been elected the Vice chairman of the World Mining Congress (WMC) a global body mining engineers and experts headquartered in Poland. Dr. M.P. Narayanan who is a Member of the International Organising Committee of the WMC was elected unanimously as Vice Chairman of the WMC at a meeting held in Tehran in Iran recently.

His name was proposed by Shri S.K.Choudhary,Chairman of the Indian National Committee. Prof.Ajay Ghosh who was till recently the Vice Chairman of the WMC was unanimously nominated as Hon.Member of the WMC in appreciation of his past services to WMC. There were 165 delegates from India who attended the Conference including State Ministers from Orissa, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh etc along with their Secretaries, Mining.

The President of Iran while inaugurating the Conference made a special mention about the strong Indian contingent. India also effectively participated in the Congress by presenting important papers and in the exhibition where many leading Indian Companies had their stalls.

A decision to set up regional office of WMC in New Delhi India was also held during the meet. It was also decided to have a meeting of the International Organising Committee of WMC along with International Coal Conference to held in New Delhi during November, 2006