The central government plansto implement new technologies and build digital infrastructure to support current and future coal mines operations in the country. …
The scope of the draft technology roadmap for coal sector is technology enablement in coal mines for transformation across business value chain, leveraging digital technology as an accelerator for demonstrating performance enhancement in the coal mines, and increasing productivity, safety and sustainability while reducing environmental impactby upgrading conventional technologies to new technologies. The move is also expected to reduce the dependency on imports. Itwill involve a strong, multi-speed backbone information technology and infrastructure system that allows rapid deployment of new technologies.