SHRI PRAVAT RANJAN MANDAL ADVISIOR (PROJECT) Shri Pravat Ranjan Mandal (57) is 1973 batch graduate mining engineer from Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad. Shri Mandal is having more than three decades of experience in Coal Industry and held key positions in his distinguished career. Currently he is Adviser (Projects), Ministry of Coal, Govt. of India. His current assignment includes strategic planning, technical upgradation of coal industry including ushering in development of clean coal technology both in short-term and long-term perspective,  capacity building in India aiming towards improving availability of coal and coal based energy sources for the nation and to maintain its competitive advantage in energy sector. He has the distinction of rendering professional services across the entire gamut of coal mining from project planning both for surface and underground coal projects, operations, strategic planning and environmental management. He was one of the key architects in formulating mines plans for introduction of advance mining technology like longwall and continuous miner technology in Coal India Limited. Shri Mandal had attended training programme in Underground Mechanisation in Germany and widely travelled to Russia, Australia, USA, Indonesia, Japan and Europe. He is an ardent reader and technology-savvy professional. He maintains harmonious relationship and man-machine interface. He joined ECL Board on 7th March 2006. Shri Mandal is also in the Board of Minerals Exploration Corporation Ltd., Nagpur.