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MECL pulling down CMPDI’s drilling work

The Central Mine Planning and Design Institute (CMPDI), which finished the year 2015-16 with lower-than-expected drilling of 9.94 lakh metres, has blamed it on the below par performance by MECL with which CMPDI has an outsourcing contract.

“MECL has under-performed during the year. In a sense, they are pulling us back,” said a source at CMPDI.

CMPDI had signed a MoU with MECL for outsourcing 2.5 lakh metres of drilling job in 2015-16, but the latter could not deliver the goods, the source said.

“MECL posted only a 4% growth year-on-year, while as a whole, CMPDI ended the year with 20% growth,” he said.

CMPDI achieved total drilling of 9.94 lakh metres in 2015-16, about 20% growth over 8.28 lakh metres achieved in the previous year, but lower than 10.5 lakh metres expected by the Coal India subsidiary.