SHRI NAGENDRA KUMAR DIRECTOR (TECHNICAL), ECL Sri. Nagendra Kumar was born on 07-04-1959 at Patna. After graduating in Mining Engineering (B. Tech – Mining) from Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad in the year 1980, he joined CCL as junior Executive Trainee in 1980. In his first 20 years in CCL, he has worked for almost 6 years as Manager and 7 years as Project Officer. He has spent most of his career in reviving difficult underground and opencast mines and has the experience of working with almost all kind of mechanization in underground and opencast. He was transferred to ECL in 2001 in the same capacity and later assumed the charge of General Manager in 2004. He was actively associated with indiginization of Long wall equipment and has presented a number of papers on its successful implementation. His latest achievement is the successful operation of Continuous Miner in Jhanjra Area in ECL matching World Standards in production and safety. Sri. Kumar is a member of MGMI, IMMA and Institution of Engineers. He has traveled foreign countries like South Africa and China on official tour. Sri. Kumar is a fond of cricket, books, old melody songs and Rabindra  Sangeet  too.