Context: Recently, Central Mine Planning and Design Institute Limited (CMPDIL) invented method for Controlling Generation and Movement of Fugitive Dust.
About New Dust Control Technology:
It aims to minimize and control the fugitive dust in mining areas.
Useful in Coal Mines, Thermal Power Plants, Railway Sidings and Ports
It will help in reducing the dust generation from open sources.
it will provide noise attenuation.
Fugitive dust is a type of particulate matter that causes air pollution because it is produced by many sources but is released into the atmosphere without passing through a confined flow stream.
About Central Mine Planning and Design Institute Limited (CMPDIL):
CMPDIL is a Government of India enterprise having its corporate headquarters at Ranchi in India.
It is a fully owned subsidiary of Coal India Limited (CIL) and a Schedule-B company.
It is a Mini Ratna (Category I) company since June 2019 and ISO 9001 certified since March 1998.
In January 1974, CMPDI started functioning as a division of the then recently constituted Coal Mines Authority Limited (CMAL), and the planning wing of erstwhile National Coal Development Corporation (NCDC) forming its nucleus.
In November 1975, CMAL was merged to form Coal India Limited, and CMPDI attained the status of a public limited company under CIL with declared scope of its business under its Memorandum of Association broadly in line with its original proposal.
