Dear shareholders, good morning and a warm welcome to you all to the 49th Annual General Meeting of Coal India Limited through video conferencing or other audio visual facilities. For the smooth conduct of the meeting, the members will be in mute mode, and audio and video will be unmuted when they will speak at the AGM as per the pre-registration. Please note that as per the requirements, the proceedings of the annual general meeting will be recorded and available on the website of the company. I now hand over the proceedings to Shri B.P. Dubey, Company Secretary of Coal India Limited. Over to you, sir. Respected Chairman, other board of directors of CIL, ladies and gentlemen, good morning. I welcome each one of you to the 49th Annual General Meeting of CIL. The meeting is held through video conference other audio visual means. This is in compliance with the circular issued by MCA as well as by SEBI. It will also give an opportunity to members residing outside Kolkata to attend the meeting to give their valuable suggestions. Before we commence the proceedings, I request everybody to stand up for the corporate brief of Coal India Limited. Members, please note that this meeting is also being webcast live at www.coalindia.in. The register of directors and other documents are available electronically for an inspection of the members. Before we take up the agenda of the meeting, let me have the pleasure and honor of introducing the board of directors of the company attending the meeting. Shri PM Prasad, Chairman, CIL from Kolkata. Shri Naaraju Madcela, Additional Secretary, MoC from New Delhi. Shri Vinay Ranjan, Director PNI, CIL from Kolkata. Dr. B. Reddy, Director Technical from Kolkata. Shri Debasis Nanda, Director Business Development and Director Finance Additional Charge from Kolkata. Shri Mukesh Chaudhary, Director Marketing from Kolkata. Professor Nageswara Gollapalli, Independent Director and Chairman, NRC from Kolkata. Dr. Arun Kumar Oraon, Independent Director and Chairman, Risk Management Committee from Kolkata. CA Shri Kamesh Kanacharia, Independent Director and Chairman, Audit Committee from Kolkata. CA Dinesh Singh, Independent Director and Chairman, Stakeholders Relations Committee from Kolkata. Shri Makhwana Punambai Talibai, Independent Director from Kolkata. Shri Bhojraj Rajeshchand Raod, Independent Director and Chairman, CSR Committee from Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. Shri Ghanshyam Singh Rathore, Independent Director from CIL, Kolkata. I have the pleasure to announce that Shri R.P. Singh, partner of Ms. Lodha and Company, Statutory Auditors of the company, P.N. Parekh and Jitiasa N. Ved of Parekh and Associates, Statutory Auditor of the company, and Sourabh Basu of S. Basu and Company, are also attending the meeting through VC. I would request Chairman CIL to commence the proceedings of the 49th annual general meeting. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I have immense pleasure in welcoming you all to the 49th annual general meeting of the company. Company secretary informs me that the quorum is present. The notice of annual general meeting and integrated annual report of the company have been with you for some time, and with your permission, I consider them as read. The offer of CAG had given comments on the audited accounts of the company for financial year 2022-2023. The management explanation and auditor's observation on the same are given in the integrated annual report. Likewise, secretarial auditor of the company for the year 2022-2023 had also given comments about non-appointment of women independent director during 2022-2023. The management explanation to the same has also been given in the integrated annual report. Dear shareholders, I am delighted to welcome you all to the 49th Annual General Meeting of your company, Coal India Limited. The Directors' Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31st March 2023, together with the report of statutory auditors and report and comments of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India are already with you. I am sure you are fully aware of the operational and financial performance of your company. In India, where coal continues to dominate the energy scenario and will do so in the foreseeable future, your company, Coal India, as country's largest coal producer and supplier, virtually imports the power sector of the nation. Around 84% of Coal India's entire production is scattered to coal-fired power plants of the company, country. Thus, your company stands at the forefront of India's energy security. India is on the path of transforming from an energy economy driven by fossil fuels, to the one that is driven by renewables. Although renewable energy sources have started contributing to India's energy demand, coal remains the unrivaled leader in our country's energy landscape. The country's total electricity generation during FY2023, including renewables, was 1,624.16 billion units, compared to 1,491.86 billion units generated in FY 2022. The generation growth of 8.87% during the year was a 13-year high, which is a testament to the country's swelling energy appetite. Out of this total, coal-based electricity generation accounted for 70.6% or 1,145.86 billion units, with 10% growth over the preceding year. Among the energy mix, renewable sources have grown by robust 19% in FY 2023 compared to FY 2022, yet their contribution in the overall generation was only 12.5% at 203.36 billion units. In other words, renewables trailed coal by 5.6x. This amplifies the importance of coal's role and the need for a balanced energy transition from coal to renewables. Additionally, coal stokes many non-power industries such as steel, cement, fertilizers, sponge iron, aluminum, and a host of other industries. With coal commanding such prominence in the Indian energy sector, Coal India Limited leads the country's coal production, contributing to around 79% of the nation's entire coal output. Your company is committed to increasing its production and supplies to the mandated levels to ensure the country gets power at fair price. The performance of your company during 2023 peaked to an all-time high in both the physical and financial parameters. We have surpassed all prior records, setting new benchmarks in key performance metrics. Our production, overburden removal, coal offtake, supplies to power plants of the country have surpassed all the previous records. This resulted in significant gains in our net sales, PBT, and PAT. The high orbit performance is a reflection of the concerted effort of all subsidiaries of Coal India. In a first, we have reached the 700 million ton production mark, producing 703.2 million ton of coal, compared to 622.6 million ton of FY 2022. The growth was a robust 13%. The volume increase of 80.6 million ton was almost twice of the previous record, which was 44.5 million ton, reported in 2015-16. To put into perspective, the 80.6 million ton output explanation, expansion in FY 2020 is nearly equivalent to 84 million ton growth attained in the previous seven financial years. For the first time in seven years, your company has surpassed the OBR target, setting a new record of 1,658.6 million cubic meter. The year's OBR growth was a remarkable 21.77% over the previous year's 1,362 million cubic meter. The volume term increase of 297 million cubic meter in a single year was the highest ever increase till date. Coal India's total coal offtake soared to an impressive 694.7 million ton in FY 2023, with 32.8 million ton increase compared to the offtake of 661.9 million ton in the preceding fiscal. Importantly, five of our seven coal-producing subsidiaries have surpassed their previous fiscal's offtake by considerable margins. Our supplies to power sector also rose to 586.6 million ton by the end of FY 2023, achieving 103.8% of the target in terms of power supplies. We accomplished 8.5% growth in supplies to power plants over a high base of 540.6 million ton of FY 2022. You will be pleased to note that your company's profit before tax and profit after tax went up by 60.91 and 61.84% over the previous fiscal at INR 38,000 crore and INR 28,124 crore respectively. Coal India achieved this feat despite capping its prices in the face of rising input costs, particularly diesel and explosives. Also, a significant sum of INR 8,153 crore was accounted in FY 2023 for the revised wages of CIL's non-executive manpower. We have recorded highest ever net sales of INR 127,000 crore, demonstrating a robust growth of 27% compared to the previous year's net sales of INR 100,562 crore. Our gross sales also peaked to a record level of INR 187,000 crore, surpassing the previous best of INR 152,600 crore in FY 2022 by nearly 23%. EBITDA increased by 48% from INR 26,973 crore in FY 2022 to INR 40,291 crore in FY 2023. It gives me pleasure in informing you that we paid a total interim dividend of INR 12,479 crore during FY 2023, at INR 20.25 per share. Importantly, the board of directors has recommended a final dividend of INR 4 per share in FY 2023. Your company's capital expenditure has been steadily growing over the previous three years, and in FY 2023, CapEx has stepped up to a record high of INR 18,619 crore, exceeding the budgeted expenditure of INR 16,500 crore. The year-on-year growth was a healthy 20.9%. Importantly, we have been able to sustain the performance trend in the first quarter of FY 2024, as well as could be seen, CIL has achieved highest ever Q1 coal production, OBR removal, and offtake with a growth of 10% in coal production, 30% in OBR removal, and 5% in offtake in Q1, FY 2024 compared to the same quarter of FY 2023. All the producing subsidiaries have Supplied highest ever quantity of 186.9 million ton of Q1 period of any year so far. Highest quarter revenue from operations of INR 35,983 crore for the first quarter period, recorded PBT of INR 10,712 crore, and PAT of INR 7,941 crore for Q1 period. As part of our efforts towards centering evacuation infrastructure, Coal India Limited has invested in the construction of new rail lines to ensure seamless coal transportation, particularly from mines having sufficient growth potential. The construction of the Shivpur-Kathotia new railway line and capacity embankment works, enhancement works on the Jharsuguda-Barpali-Sardega and Tori-Shivpur railway lines were among the main accomplishment of the fiscal year 2022-2023. In addition, Coal India has inaugurated East Coast Railways Limited, Angul-Balram rail link project, 14.22 km, increasing rail evacuation capacity from Pachher coalfield of MCL by approximately 15 MT per annum. During FY 2023, we continued to expand our mining and operational capabilities while remaining committed to environmental compliances and sustainable practices. We issued work orders for nine MDO projects, collectively targeting a capacity of 127 MT per year. Of these, three projects have already commissioned mining operations, evaluation of bids is ongoing for two projects, while the tendering process is in progress for four groups. Additionally, 24 coal mining projects with a total capacity of 140 MT per year were approved during the fiscal. As a part of our focused efforts on underground mining, Coal India has identified 30 discontinued mines for operation, which hold an estimated minable reserve of approximately 600 MT. To enhance the underground mechanization, your company has commissioned five continuous miners during FY 2023, which were deployed in ECL, WCL, and SCCL. We also successfully obtained environmental clearance for 40 proposals, resulting in an incremental capacity of 87.32 million tons per year. Additionally, forest clearances were secured for seven proposals covering 1,920.15 hectares, and final approval was granted for seven proposals covering 885.86 hectares. Coal India has signed several MOUs during the fiscal. Three separate MOUs were inked with BHEL, GAIL, and IOCL for the surface coal gasification, coal to chemical business, and two MOUs to expand thermal power operation. A joint venture between SCCL and Madhya Pradesh Power Generating Company, MPPGCL, for the development of 1x660 MW supercritical thermal power station in Madhya Pradesh was signed. The second MOU involves constructing a 2x800 MW supercritical thermal power plant in Odisha through Mahanadi Basin Power Limited, MBPL. A back-to-back MOU was also executed between CIL and Assam Power Distribution Company Limited for the purchase of 1,200 megawatt of power from the proposed MBPL power plant. In a boost to eco-friendly mechanized transportation of coal under the First Mile Connectivity, seven projects with a combined capacity of 92 million tons were commissioned during the fiscal. I'm also pleased to state that in a remarkable feat, Coal India's plantation of 1,613 hectares area has exceeded the target of 1,510 hectares by attaining 107% of satisfaction. During the fiscal year, we have planted 31 lakh trees, contributing to the annual creation of approximately 81,000 tons of carbon sink potential. In addition to plantation initiatives, our subsidiaries established 3 eco parks spread over 31 hectare of land at a cost of INR 5.67 crores. A total of 30 such eco parks are already attracting steady footfalls. Plans are underway to create more such eco parks, eco-tourism, and eco-restoration sites in mining areas to further the environmental conservation and sustainable practices. During FY 2023, also, our focused efforts to achieve energy efficiency yielded exceptional results. We have effectively reduced CO2 emissions by 69,000 tons, which was 124% of the estimated goal of 55,780 tons. In addition, we saved a total of 84.20 million kilowatt hour units of energy. During the fiscal year, three sand segregation projects were implemented for conversion of sand from overburden material. These projects produced a total of 264,000 cubic meter of sand. This novel approach by Coal India has been effective in preserving the ecosystem to a certain extent. By repurposing overburden material into sand, we are reducing waste and maximizing resource utilization. I'm also pleased to share that mine water discharge from our mines benefited 11.1 lakh people in 837 villages in the proximity of our mining areas during the year. The water was used for domestic and irrigation purposes. We are a major CSR spender among the central public sector enterprises of the country. During FY 2023, we continued to engage in a number of society-friendly CSR initiatives that had a positive impact on a wide area of communities. Our subsidiaries, MCL and CCL, won awards in agriculture and rural development and promotion of sports categories, respectively, at the prestigious National CSR Awards 2020. Our CSR expenditure has exceeded the statutory obligations. It is noteworthy that in the four years leading up to the end of fiscal year, Coal India spent rupees...... INR 2,172 crores, which is 25.7% more than the mandated expenditure of INR 1,731.6 crores. Safety of the miners, mines, and machinery is viewed holistically as a top priority in CIL. There has been a significant improvement in our safety performance, and fatalities have hit an all-time low. During the fiscal, we have diligently met the corporate governance prerequisites, outlined the guidelines of corporate governance for CPSEs, issued by the Department of Public Enterprise, Government of India, and Regulation 34(3), read with Schedule five of SEBI, Regulations 2015. A dedicated section on corporate governance has been incorporated in the directors' report, and a compliance certificate has been acquired from a practicing company secretary. We have conducted the secretarial audit by a peer-reviewed practicing company secretary firm for FY2023, as required under Companies Act 2013. Except for the appointment of women independent director, Coal India Limited has fulfilled the stipulations on corporate governance norms set forth in both the Companies Act 2013 and SEBI Regulations 2015. The secretarial audit report for the FY2023 has been incorporated in the directors' report. Coal India's commitment to the meeting the country's growing energy demand and the fostering economic growth remains unwavering. We will consistently prioritize excellence, sustainability, and innovation in all of our endeavors, thereby fostering positive industry transformations. I would like to thank all our shareholders and the Ministry of Coal, Government of India, for the unwavering confidence on our vision and capabilities. I would also like to thank our teams for their relentless hard work and dedication. I must convey my sincere thanks to all our employees for their continuous cooperation. Finally, I would like to thank all other state, central government ministries, departments, state governments, state unions, auditors, consumers, suppliers, and all other stakeholders for their support. May I request the members to raise queries, if any, on the integrated annual report and accounts of CIL 2022-2023. Members are requested to confine their queries to the annual accounts, directors' report, agenda of the AGM, and performance of the company. Personal issues, grievance matters relating to policy, if any, may be taken up at other appropriate forums to save time for meaningful interaction on the business in hand. Only those members who have registered themselves as speakers with the company will be allowed to speak one by one. Those members who are not registered as speakers can post their queries on the communication box available on the screen. Now, I invite shareholders to ask the questions. Thank you so much. Ladies and gentlemen, we now begin with the question and answer session. We will wait for a moment while the question queue assembles. Our first speaker member is Mr. Subhash Kar. Request you to kindly accept the prompt on your screen. You may unmute your audio and video, and you may proceed with your question. Yes, sir. Are you audible? Yes, sir, you are audible. Very good morning, everyone. Respected Chairman, Board of Directors, and my online fellow shareholders. Myself, Subhash Kar, joining from Kolkata. Our company announced excellent results for the current financial year. Congratulations to the board members. Our company is a debt-free and paying healthy dividend, INR 24.25. CSR activities are remarkable. Coming to my queries. Sir, can you give us a sense of the CapEx outlook for this year? What broadly areas would the money be spent on? Next, sir, how soon can we plan to realistically approach a full year production of 1 billion tons? Chairman, sir, please send hard copy of annual report, at least to the speaker shareholder. I have already trusted my e-voting in favor of the all resolution. I hope our company will do better in coming year under the leadership of our respected Chairman. Thank you, and wishing you all the best. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Our next speaker member is Manoj Kumar Gupta. Manoj Kumar Gupta. Request you to kindly accept the prompt on your screen. Unmute your audio and video, and you may proceed with your question. Hello? Yes, sir. Hello. Good morning, respected Chairman, Board of Directors, fellow shareholders. My name is Manoj Kumar Gupta. I have joined this meeting from my residence, Kolkata. First of all, I warm welcome you as our chairman, and I wish to God to give you more success to take the company on new heights under your leadership, with the help of entire team of management and employees. I also warm welcome to our new company secretary, that who has helped us to join this meeting through VC. He's always help us in any circumstances whenever we call him, and such type of people should be in the corporate house. He never avoid and never regret to our calls, and he always ready, and he Sir, thanks for your dividend, INR 24.25. Sir, your balance, I've got your balance sheet. Your balance sheet is so strong. In the Maharatna companies, I find that your balance sheet is so strong, but there is no reflection in the stock market to see the strong balance sheet. There should be a reflection, because our share price is very low in the stock market. As per the balance sheet, our share price should be in the 4-digit, but there is no reflection in the stock market. When the investors will get return? Sir, what's the status of mines? Just you have stated some views on the mines and new proposals. Sir, coal, there was a coal shortage into power units, what's the status as on today? Last year, several trains were canceled due to the supply of coal to the power sector, to maintain the smooth power supply. What's the status as on today? Sir, any plan to list the subsidiaries in stock market, to demerge the company and list in the stock market? Any plan in near future to like as a CCL, ECL or NCL, any plan to list the subsidiaries in the stock market? Sir, try to improve the services in hospitals. You are doing a lot of work for the community and society, and your CSR fund is very, a huge amount. Why are you taking the help of private hospitals? You should in improvement your services with a modern facility in your hospitals. Take, take care and expend some money, and CSR, try to expend some amount in Calcutta under the CSR of Coal India Limited. Try to expend some money. Sir, next year, 50th AGM under your leadership, how you will celebrate the 50th AGM with the employees and the investors? Sir, have you any plan to use the solar power or renewable energy in your offices and/or your subsidiary offices? To save. Last but least, I wish to God to give you more success with the help of entire team, of management, board, and the employees, and those are working in the day, night, in the risk, with a huge risk in the open mine or closed mine. I wish to God to give you more success, and I thanks to the Secretarial Department, sir. Thank you. Thank you so much. Our next speaker member is Manas Banerjee. Request you kindly accept the prompt on your screen, unmute your audio and video, and you may proceed with your question. We will wait for a moment while Mr. Banerjee unmutes his audio and video. Sir, I'm, I'm audible? Yes, sir. Yes, sir, we can hear you. You may proceed. Good morning, everybody. Respected chairman, present board members, and my co-shareholders. I am Manas Banerjee, an equity shareholder of Coal India Limited, joining from Kolkata. Sir, for the financial year 2022-2023, both top line and bottom line registered a modest growth. The offtake in 2022-2023 recorded a growth of 5% over last financial year, breaking all previous records. Congratulations to the management team for this. Our company has been maintaining a healthy and liberal bond dividend policy, INR 20.25 already paid, and INR 4 per share proposed, in total INR 24.25. Now, I have some queries, sir. Sir, on coking coal over three to five years, what sort of volumes can we get? Next question, sir. Our company has setting up a coal-based fertilizer plant at Talcher. As per our annual report, the plant is expected to come into operation in FY 2024, 2025. Sir, what kind of revenue addition do you expect from these facilities? Next question, sir. Our company are investing in renewables, in alumina plant and other ventures. What is the payback for this project, that payback threshold for us to invest in this project? Finally, sir, Coal India Limited and its subsidiaries to use decollate land to build new thermal power plant as per our Coal Ministry. Sir, setting up power plants at this pithead is more cost effective, making it possible to generate power at less than INR 4 per unit. Do you identify such decollate land? If you can throw some light about this. Sir, I request you to arrange a mine visit for the speaker shareholder in the coming winter session. I already supported all the resolutions by remote e-voting. Thank you for patience hearing, have a nice day. Thank you so much. We now move to our next speaker member, Santosh Chopra. Request you to kindly unmute your audio and video, and you may proceed with your question. Shareholders, we will wait for a moment while the speaker member unmutes his audio and video. Am I audible? Yes, sir, you are audible. You may proceed. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to speak at this, this AGM. I am a retired senior citizen from Delhi NCR, Kaushambi, Ghaziabad, and have invested my retirement funds in company like yours. Sir, I have received the annual report, sent through Alankit Assignments Limited, but the cover was so poor that it was torn in, that was rough paper. You should direct the Alankit Assignments to send the best annual report in, in the wrapping paper, like gift, gift papers, instead of throwing away smelled, khaki papers. That is very embarrassing for a company like yours, if we get a good annual report in a torn, lipapa. Secondly, sir, I am satisfied with the performance of your company and the secretarial department's dialogue with us to give us chance for speaking at this AGM. I endorse the views of my previous speakers, and I don't have any further to ask any question. Thank you, sir. Thank you so much. We now move to our next speaker member, Amit Kumar Banerjee. Amit Kumar Banerjee had registered as a speaker shareholder, but has currently not joined the meeting. We move to our next speaker member, Sujan Modak. Request you to kindly unmute your audio and video, and you may proceed with your question. Hello, you can hear me? Yes, sir, we are able to hear you. You may proceed. Yeah. Good morning, respected Chairman, other board of directors. I'm Sujan Modak. I'm attending this meeting from my residence in Kolkata, sir. Sir, if we see the performance of our company this year, it's a very good performance, sir. Profit before tax, profit for the year have all gone up, sir. Production, coal production has also gone up. Optic of coal has also gone up. Sir, you have given a very good dividend, sir. This is a very nice performance. Sir, I have a few questions to ask. What is the guidance you give for this, for this, particularly this year, to the investors community? I would like to definitely know, sir. My previous speakers have already asked questions, so those questions I don't want to repeat. This is not good, sir. One more thing I wanted to know is that, sir, page number 308 and 309, they are showing some fatality. This year we had, sir, 21 fatalities, sir. Point number 11, page 308. That is a high consequence. Work-related injuries also, sir, 60. Sir, our Coal India is a very big company, sir. Is it not possible to reduce or minimize this one? This... why, why there should be fatality? What is the problem, sir? We, we don't have that knowledge, or we, we don't have that expertise, or it is some material failure, or is a human failure. Our safety department should be more, more responsible, so that we should not lose our workers or our employees in such a way, sir. Page number 309 also shows some fatalities and some injuries and all, sir. These are the things I'd like to definitely draw your attention, and please tell us, well, what are the steps you have taken so that we should not recur again, sir? Sir, down the line, for 20 years, if we see, sir, could you tell me what is the future of our company is going to be? Now, this coal is mainly used for generation of power. Sir, now we have, we have got solar energy everywhere. People are, all industries and everywhere we are going for solar energy, and at the same time, the hydrogen also is being used, and slowly it is coming to the world. What I believe that since hydrogen comes, solar energy increases, so how much coal use will be there in, in the down the line for 20 years? If you can please tell us, it will be very good, sir. Before I finish, I'd like to thank our company secretary, Mr. Dubey, and his whole team, for being very good in investor services, sir. Including Mr. Mohit Gupta, Ranjit Singh, they, they are always getting in touch with us, and we get very good services from from our company secretary and his team. Mr. Dubey, please, sir. Sir, before Mr. Dubey, there, there was Mr. Viswanathan, sir. He used to call us sometimes in the office. Mr. Dubey, there's a request, sir. If possible, sir, Thank you so much. We now move to our next speaker member, Lily Pradhan. Request you to accept the prompt on your screen, unmute your audio and video, and you may proceed with your question. Am I audible? Yes, we are able to hear you. Hello. Okay, okay. Very, very good morning of all chairpersons and all viewers. Myself, Lily Pradhan from Kolkata. First of all, I give my respect to board of directors, respected Chairman, respected Secretary, with the secretarial team. As the secretary always coordinate with me, even all shareholder. I am very happy to know that the company's performance is developing a lot, which is sustainable growth in nowadays. I have put some specific question in present situation. What is the aim and object of future development in all over world and in the national level, globally? What is the CSR activities and on challenging persons? Please, micro analysis of CSR activities. Must we submit the CapEx plan in future development. Please always send the, the consider the VC for the attending of the average persons who are the participate and express their views easily. Nothing more. All the best. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. We now move to our next speaker member, Tapas Kumar Dutta. Request you to accept the prompt on your screen, unmute your audio and video, and you may proceed with your question. Hello? Yes, sir, we are able to hear you. Hello. Hello, am I audible? Yes, sir. May I start, sir? Yes, sir, you may proceed. Good morning, everybody. Respected Chairman, distinguished Board of Directors, eminent KMPs, and my fellow shareholders visiting this varsity meeting. I, myself, Tapas Kumar Dutta, an equity shareholder of Coal India Limited. I profoundly express my sincere gratitude to the galaxy of Coal India Limited for their dedication, exertion, commitment, and outstanding achievement. My heartfelt indebtedness to our secretarial department for their excellent and remarkable investor services. They are doing everything efficiently, effectively, and intelligently. Sir, I have a few queries. Page 102. Who is your lead banker? Page 120. Doubtful trade receivables increased INR 22,722.134. Sir, who are the buyers? Why don't you take legal steps to realize the same? Sir, page 152. The title deed of some immoveable properties is not in company's name and of some property is pending. Sir, why don't you take initiative to have it? Sir, page 176. Unaudited financial statement of subsidiaries and joint venture have been certified by management. Sir, why have the financial statement remained unaudited? Sir, page 204. Hindustan Urvarak and Rasayan Limited, the most capital-intensive unit is incurring losses. Sir, what is your planning to viable? When will it be viable? Sir, page 197. Large number of fatalities, fatal accident, serious accident and serious injuries took place in SECL. Sir, why is SECL an accident-prone zone? How can you What plan do you have to reduce this accident in this section, in this subsidiary? Sir, page 232. Expenditure on R&D, INR 74.864. Sir, what is the CapEx Out of this, what is the CapEx, and what is the recurring expenditure? The total R&D as a percentage of total revenue is not given in this section. Sir, page 291. Turnover rate as shown is not correct. Sir, page 291. 95% and 5% cannot be a turnover rate, but it is to be rectified. Page 301. Disciplinary action was taken against KMPs and employees. Sir, which type of disciplinary action have you taken? With this, I'll conclude it. Sir, thank you for patient hearing. Over to you. Thank you so much. We now move to our next speaker member, Ashit Kumar Pathak. Request you to kindly accept the prompt on your screen, unmute your audio and video, and we may proceed with your question. Dear shareholders, we'll wait for a moment. Am I, am I audible? Yes, sir, you are audible. You may proceed with your question. Very good morning, respected Chairman, government nominee, Board of Directors, Company Secretary, fellow members joining at 49 AGM of Coal India Limited. My name is Ashit Kumar Pathak, joining from Dum Dum, Kolkata. At first, my extreme gratitude to our Company Secretary, Mr. B.P. Dubey, and Secretary of Department for sending me the notice of the AGM, and excellent informative annual report. This is the first time I am seeing financial year 2020, very well in advance and allow me to speak. Thanks to my company's Secretariat Department, also leadership team. The excellent financial performance, excellent financial year 2023, Profit After Tax INR 28,124.94 crore, aggregating 62% up than previous financial year. Operating profit margin achieved 24.08%, and net profit margin achieved 22.04%, and return on net worth achieved 56.03%. Excellent! Also production activities also 100.5% satisfied target, which aggregates 703.20 MT. Also, EPS also gone up INR 45.70, and members are getting interim dividend, INR 20.25, and final dividend, INR 4 per equity share. Sir, I have some brief views which I'd like to share. It mentioned total production of coal in India, Financial Year 2023, aggregating 893.08 MT, and growth mentioned 14.76 than previous Financial Year. From respected Chairman dates, that it mentioned that renewable sources have grown 19% in financial year 2023, and their contribution in the overall is generation is 12.5, aggregating at 203.36 BU, trailed by coal by 5.6 times. And coal role amplifies the importance, where 84% of the total coal production supplied by the power sector. So through some highlight, with all these positive factors, the key reason for diversification coal-to-chemical and shift to renewable energy. Has any further my company compelled to follow up stringent norms for decarbonization, for diversification of this business? If so, the entire CapEx program next 3 years for diversification coal-to-chemical, where we have executed 3 MOUs with GAIL, GAIL and IOCL, with production of coal gasification, liquefaction, and hydrogen production. In the balance sheet mentioned, we strengthened the vigilance framework. With this, can we able to minimize the coal pilferage and illegal coal offtake from closed mines? Steps taken for positive performance subsidiaries ECL, which is very, very lower position than other subsidiaries. Present capacity of people utilizations are present 322 mines, if possible, through some highlights. Any impact in our value of sales coal by e-auction, where last year volume only 62.32 MT, than 110.80 million, where the price of 1 ton coal by e-auction is 1585% increase. Sir, also statutory levy per ton coal also INR 797.86 increased due to imposition of GST, cess, DMF and NMET and other levies. Sir, our entire CapEx program target to achieve is mentioned 1 billion ton in the financial year 2023-2024. Present status for Coal India, 10 coal mining projects got green note last year. Sir, respected chairman's dates, it mentioned there was INR 8,153 crore was provisional wage revision by financial year 2023 for CIL's non-executive manpowers. My view is that as early as it to be settled down, because they are the main pillars of my company for this excellent financial performance. This is my request to my company's management team. Sir, we have small debt mentioned, INR 4,114.73 crore. It may be to be a small amount to be deduced as early as possible to be a debt-free company, because that will be positively impact in our capital market. Standalone inventories I noticed is INR 20.54 crore against INR 13.16 crore previous year. It should be noticed here. Finally, we have equity capital INR 6,162.73 crore, and other equity is INR 51,082.16 crore. Any recommendation for rewarding bonus share or NCD? Because NCD rewarded bonus as well as NCD to members early. This is my humbly approach to reward the members with this. Nothing to say more. I pray to God, everybody good health and prosperity of my Maharashtra company, Coal India Limited, year to year, by the leadership of our President of India and respected Chairman and other leadership team. Thanking you, sir. Thank you so much. We now move to our next speaker member, Jaideep Bakshi. Request you to accept the prompt on your screen, unmute your audio and video, and you may proceed with your question. Very good morning, Chairman and Board of Directors. Myself, Jaideep Bakshi, connecting from the city of Kolkata. Thanks to our Company Secretary, Mr. B.P. Dubey, for giving me an opportunity to express my view and presenting a detailed, voluminous, 500+ pages of annual reports. It's a really wonderful and informative one, a quite good descriptive one also. Also to our secretary department team, including Mr. Mohit Ji and Mr. Ranjit Ji, for maintaining relations with the shareholders. Sir, your initial speech explained our company's position also, and also our future prospects, sir. We had a good performance, and so congrats for the dividend you have passed on to the shareholders, sir. Sir, just nothing to... You have explained clearly about our company's future also. Sir, just want to know the utilization of the idle land bank at the mine sign, mine site, how are we going to utilize it? New procurement for handling of coal, coal and smooth movement through the AI. Regarding the open-cast and the underground market in our continuous to government exchange, exchequer, how much are we relying on this? Regarding the CSR activities, where we have spent around INR 400 crore through education, the rural development, healthcare, the women empowerment is a good achievement, sir. Sir, just want to know for the uninterrupted supply amount, what is the amount of stock we are holding in our coal department? What are the steps to achieve the 1 billion ton productivity by 2024-2025? Steps for upgradation of mechanized coal transportation. Sir, there were the stories regarding the outsourcing of development and operation of new mines to Mine Developers and Operators. Kindly throw some light on this. Nothing to add more. I have full support to our company and hope, sir, under your guidance and with the help of other board directors, our organization will come out with much better results and reward the shareholder assembly. Thank you, sir, and all stay safe. Namaskar. Thank you so much. We move to our next speaker member, Abhirup Nandi. He had registered as a speaker shareholder, but has currently not joined the meeting. We now move to our next speaker member, Kaushik Shahukar. Sir, we request you to kindly unmute your audio and video, and you may proceed with your question. Hello. Am I audible, sir? Hello. Yes, sir, you may proceed. Yeah. Good morning, everyone. I am honored to have the opportunity to address you all today, and would like to express my gratitude to the board of directors for allowing me this chance once again. First of, I salute the board of directors for continuing VC mode of meeting, thereby allowing pan-India shareholders, to, to participate. Thank you, sir, and continue the positive trend. I am satisfied shareholder of our company, and I must commend the management for their remarkable efforts in creating wealth for the shareholders. However, I'd like to raise a couple of concerns. My primary concern pertain to the implication of saving on account of virtual mode of meeting. I believe it would be prudent and fair to allocate, a portion of these funds to the welfare of the shareholders, more particularly among speaker shareholders, who actually participate in this AGM as a speaker. Considering their valuable contribution and active involvement in the meeting, it would be a gesture of recognition and appreciation to distribute a small memento on the occasion of festivals. Can you provide the breakup of physical expenses and expense on account of virtual meeting, if possible? I humbly request the board to consider my proposal and explore the possibility of implementing this gesture of gratitude and appreciation. By doing so, I firmly believe that it will reinforce the positive rapport between company and its stakeholders and contribute to the overall well-being of our corporate family. It will, okay. My next concern is, how is Coal India ensuring the safety and well-being of its workforce in its mining operations? Could you discuss the company's effort to upskill and train employees to adopt to changing technological, technological and operational requirement? My final concern is, that company has been hesitant in supporting individual in need, including myself. I have shared my credential in the past and follow up with the company consistently, but my request has not been considered. Should not getting separately abled individuals be part of CSR activity? Why company is hesitant in supporting me? I appeal for your support in certification work, including form 15 CB. Your assistance would mean a lot to me. If I can't get help from such a reputable company like Coal India, then whom can I turn to? I am resending my credential after EDM for your consideration in the hope of receiving justice and proactive consideration for desired help and support. Sir, after suggestion of Mr. Viswanathan and as CS, my assignment with Coal India has been stopped. Why, sir? I want to clarify that I'm not seeking any handout of free money, nor sympathy. I value my independence as a, as a, and self-reliant as a chartered accountant. I hope you can understand and respect my desire to maintain the independence. Thank you for your consideration, my request, and I firmly believe that with your support, I can make significant contribution to our organization. I have a positive impact on society. I eagerly await your response and sincerely appreciate the time and attention you have given me today. Additionally, I would request your assistance in introducing me to your assistant auditor. As a fellow professional, I believe that expertise and guidance would be instrumental in realizing our mutual goal. Thank you. Thank you so much, sir. Thank you so much. We now move to our next speaker, Gautam Nandi. Request you to kindly unmute your audio, and you may proceed with your question. Am I audible, sir? Yes, sir, you may proceed. Thank you, sir. Good morning, respected Chairman, board of directors, and my online fellow shareholder. Myself, Gautam Nandi from Kolkata, very old equity shareholder of the company. Firstly, I'd like to give thanks to your secretarial department for sending me annual report along with notice and necessary joining link through email well in advance. Specially thanks to our respected Company Secretary, Mr. B.P. Dubey, and his whole team, including Mr. Ranjit and other dignitaries who are giving us very good services to our minority shareholders. Sir, you are organizing your annual general meeting through video conference. I find it's a grand success. Sir, I am very pleased to receive your wonderful annual report, consisting 360 pages, which is very, very attractive and also very, very informative. Sir, accounts and performance,... Sir, earlier speakers have already expressed their views regarding the performance, so no repetition from my side at least. Sir, I find very good performance in every segment, even in this challenging year. Sir, we are very happy, you are giving us very good dividend, sir, in this market scenario. Sir, your CSR is also very, very good, so please keep it up. Sir, what is your roadmap for the next three to four years, sir? Sir, is there any plan to issue bonus share in near future? Please let us know. We are eagerly awaiting, sir. Sir, one request, if situation permits, please arrange a mine visit. If underground is not possible, please arrange for the open cast mine visit. Sir, I have requested for the hard copy of annual report. You have already sent well in advance. Thank you, thank you again, sir. Sir, I am very happy and very proud to be a shareholder of your company. I have full trust with our strong management, sir, and so I, along with my family, wholeheartedly support your all resolutions, which we have already cast through my e-voting. Sir, looking forward with a positive outlook towards our company with higher profit margin, handsome dividend, 1:1 bonus and return, sir. Sir, may God bless you, sir. Stay safe, stay healthy. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. We now move to our next speaker member, Mahesh Kumar Bhopal. Mr. Mahesh Kumar Bhopal had registered as a speaker shareholder, but currently he is not connected. We move to our next speaker member, Sharad Kumar. Request you to kindly accept the prompt on your screen, unmute your audio and video, and you may proceed with your question. Mr. Sharad Kumar, you may kindly accept the prompt on your screen. There seems to be a connectivity issue. We move to our next speaker member, Shailesh Mahadevia. Request you kindly accept the prompt on your screen, unmute your audio and video, and you may proceed with your question. Dear shareholders, we will wait for a moment while the speaker member unmutes his audio and video. Yes, sir. Yes, sir, you may proceed. Yeah, I will. Respected Chairman, distinguished board of directors, and members of the management team. Sir, let me first congratulate the company for achieving excellent result during the year under consideration. I have become a member of Coal India only recently, and this is my first AGM. I wonder why I did not become a shareholder of such a good company in the years earlier. Sir, I wish to appreciate the excellent integrated report which has been presented to the shareholders, which includes BR and SR report, and also the value creation of all our six capitals. There are other lot of information in our report, and I will be able to go through it in detail once and when I receive the physical copy of the report. Sir, I also appreciate your chairman's speech, which has very well analyzed the working of our company and also given the future roadmap. Sir, you have also covered all aspects of the, of the working of the company. Sir, I also appreciate the holding of virtual meeting instead of physical meeting. That has enabled me to join at the age of 84 from my residence in Mumbai. Thank you very much, sir. Now, I wish and I would like to appreciate the cooperation and assistance of the secretarial department. They are so very prompt and so very cooperative, which made me very happy with their attitude. Sir, now I wish to go to some of the questions. Sir, my first question is that our company has given so much of emphasis to environment in view of the fact that our company may be one of the culprits to spoil the environment. Sir, I appreciate this attitude that you are working in the national interest and not only for the company as such. However, in this connection, you have planted a number of trees so that they can absorb the emissions. Sir, may I know what are these trees which have been planted? Sir, my next question is regarding the pay scale of all the executives of the company. Sir, the company is doing as efficient- Variety, variety of trees. Variety, like name, people, and all that. Sir, our company is operating as efficiently as any other private company in the country, including your colleagues from ITC. I will put the management in the same category, therefore, my next complaint and request that increase the compensation package of all the executives of the company to get even still better result and to appreciate their services. Sir, my next question is regarding the quality of coal, which has always been a problem for many years. we have tried to improve upon the cleaning of cotton at the pithead itself, so that we may not have to transport the dust which is there along with our coal. Sir, what I would like to know is that, what are we using the ash, which is separated from the coal, whether it is being used profitably or not? Sir, my next question is future of coal as a source of energy supplier. We find that a number of companies have placed order for supply of Supercritical thermal power plants, which will usually have the life of at least 15 years. That means coal is likely to play an important role as a source of energy in the years to come. However, sir, I would like you to give us an assessment of utilization of coal as a source of energy in the years to come, and how it will compare with the other renewable energies. Sir, my next question, which was not emphasized in your chairman's speech, is the digitalization of all our operations and the latest technological use which we are making in our operations, particularly artificial intelligence, IoT, machine learning, because these tools will increase our efficiency to a very great extent. Go on. Sir, I would also like to know. Yes. whether we will be using 5G technology as soon as it is made available, which is likely to be introduced in a short while from now. Sir, that will help us to understand the prospect of our company in the times to come. Sir, my next question is regarding the CSR work, which is being done on a massive scale, not only as per what is required by law, but even beyond that. Sir, however, what I would like to know is, whether we have made any economic impact study as a result of our CSR work for the benefit of society. As all of us know, there is a multiplier effect, there is a ripple effect. If you spend INR 1 crore for the benefit of society, the society will benefit by a much larger amount, say, 3 times, 4 times. Sir, have we made any study of this impact? There are independent agencies available on the subject, and if we can make that study and present it in our report, it will increase the understanding of our company for the benefit of the society at large, and that will give us, our company, in a proper perspective. Sir, last question: How are we likely to celebrate the 50th year, which will be only next year? Let me congratulate you in advance for reaching such a milestone in such excellent performing with company. Sir, with this, namaste to all the board of directors, including the chairman, for giving me this opportunity. Thank you very much, sir. Thank you so much, sir. We now move to our next speaker member, Gaurav Liladhar Rusalkar. He had registered as a speaker shareholder, but currently is not connected. We move to our next speaker member, Anushree Sen. Request you to kindly accept the prompt on your screen, unmute your audio and video, and you may proceed with your question. Yes, ma'am, you may proceed. Good morning, respected Chairman and my fellow shareholder. I, Anushree Sen, equity shareholder of Coal India Limited. Sir, I congratulated Company Secretary to give me a chance as a speaker. Coal India produce largest coal in India. Import large quantity of coal from many countries. Naturally, production cost is high for logistics expenses. What is CIL do in this matter? Sir, it is good thing Coal India plan to invest various projects such as coal gasification, solar power, and diversification. Sir, what is the target of coal production and current situation of coal 2023? Is Coal India debt-free industry? At last, I wait for bonus share after a long time gap. Thank you, all. Thank you so much. We now move to our next speaker member, Srikanta Sen. Request you to kindly accept the prompt on your screen, unmute your audio and video, and you may proceed with your question. Yes, you may- Hello. -proceed with your question. Yes, sir. Good morning, respected Chairman and my fellow shareholder. I, Srikanta Sen, from Howrah, equity shareholder of Coal India company, Coal India Limited. Sir, at first, I thank the Company Secretary and others to give a chance as a speaker. Sir, in COVID time, Coal India AGM start through video conference and audio visual, but now COVID is about to normal, so why not physical meeting? Kindly consider physical meeting. Sir, sir, previous speaker covered my maximum question, so I not repeat it and time not waste. Nothing to say about my strong, about strong balance sheet of Coal India. Sir, regarding pollution, many countries switch the steam from coal product by using solar, wind power and autonomic power for avoiding health hazard pollution. Any precaution taken in our in Coal India Limited? At least my last, at last my question, what is the manpower of Coal India and use power capacity? Sir, kindly arrange a mining visit. Thank you very much. On the call, sir. Thank you so much. We now move to our next speaker member, Bharat Raj. Request you to accept the prompt on your screen. Unmute your audio and video, and you may proceed with your question. Hello. Yes, sir. Yeah, I'm audible, sir? Yeah, good afternoon, entire board of directors. Sir, your audio is very low. If you could just come a little more closer to the mic. Yeah, now it is audible, sir? Hello. Yes, sir, you may proceed. Yeah, very good mor-- good, good afternoon, entire board of directors. First of all, I thank the management for wonderful performance. Chairman Sir, wonderful speech. You have given entire information. Sir, Coal India is a bread and butter for the shareholders. It's a wonderful dividend payout, sir. Thank you very much. I hope this will be continue. Sir, next year we are celebrating a golden jubilee year, sir. In this happy occasion, we expect a bonus from the management, sir. Chairman Sir, please consider a bonus, liberal bonus for the shareholders and a special dividend also, sir. We'll be more happy. Sir, there is no questions regarding our management, sir. We are a very good transparency is there. I hope in the next coming years, we will be safe, healthy, and we'll have a physical AGM, sir. I hope the government will permit and so that we can meet you personally, we can have a very good get together, followed by lunch, sir. Sir, once again, sir, if it is possible, give us opportunity to plant visit, sir. Sir, take care, sir. God bless you, entire board of directors. Be safe, be healthy, sir. I'm Bharat Raj, calling from Hyderabad. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. We now move to our next speaker member, Kamal Kishori Jawahar, who had registered as a speaker shareholder but currently is not connected. We move to our next speaker member, Santosh Kumar Saraf. We request you to kindly accept the prompt on your screen, unmute your audio and video, and you may proceed with your question. माननीय अध्यक्ष जी, उपस्थित निदेशक सदस्यगण, अधिकारीगण और कर्मचारीगण, मैं संतोष कुमार सराफ, कड़ता से आप सभी को नमस्कार करता हूँ। आशा करता हूँ, आप इस समय स्वस्थ होंगे, सर। सबसे पहले, स-सर, मैं उन कर्मचारियों का आभार प्रकट करता हूँ, जिनकी कड़ी मेहनत के कारण कंपनी हमें इतना अच्छा रिजल्ट दे रही है, सर। वह मीटिंग में जो प्रेजेंट हैं, वह हमारी सुनेंगे और बाकी जो नहीं प्रेजेंट हैं, उनको आप मेरा यह आभार प्रकट पहुंचाइएगा सर, कि उनकी मेहनत के कारण ही है, आज हमें इतना-इतना डिविडेंड और इतनी मतलब अच्छे रिजल्ट मिल रहे हैं, सर। सर, मैं ज्यादा कुछ नहीं कहूंगा, दो-तीन चीज। एक तो सर, ये फ्रॉड होता है, उसके लिए क्या कदम उठा रहे हैं? ये फ्रॉड को रोकने के लिए हमारी कंपनी ने क्या कदम उठाए हैं, सर, ये बताइएगा और इनसाइड ट्रेडिंग के लिए क्या कदम उठा रहे हैं, ये बताने का कष्ट करिएगा। दूसरा, सर, फीमेल एंपावरमेंट के लिए आप क्या कदम उठा रहे हैं, ये बताने का कष्ट करिएगा, सर। एक सर, ये जो अपने फिजिकल शेयर के बारे में बोलना है, अभी भी अपने कितने एंप्लाई हैं, जिनके पास फिजिकल होल्डिंग है और वह अभी तक क्यों नहीं डीमैट करवा रहे हैं, उनको बताइएगा सर। क्योंकि एंप्लाई अगर डीमैट नहीं कराएंगे तो शेयरहोल्डर फिर कैसे करवाएंगे, सर? और सर, ये बीसी मीटिंग काफी अच्छी है। आशा करता हूँ, फ्यूचर में, फ-फ्यूचर में भी आप ये बीसी मीटिंग आयोजन करेंगे। अगर फिजिकल मीटिंग करते हैं, तो उसके साथ में बीसी का भी ऑप्शन रखिएगा, जिससे कि जो शेयरहोल्डर फिजिकल अटेंड नहीं कर सकते, वह अपना बीसी में अटेंड कर सकते हैं, सर। और सर, भेजा का जो आपने हायर किया है, काफी अच्छा है, सर। इसको फ्यूचर में कंटिन्यू रखिएगा, सर। और मैं क्या कहूंगा कि अगर फिजिकल मीटिंग करते भी हैं सर, तो उसमें बीसी का ऑप्शन करिए। जिससे जो लोग फिजिकल आ सकते हैं, फिजिकल जो नहीं आ सकते हैं, बीसी में अटेंड कर सकते हैं。 एक बार जितने भी हमारे डायरेक्टर हैं, जितने भी अधिकारीगण और जितने भी कर्मचारी आज प्रेजेंट हैं, उनके, उनके परिवार को वित्तीय ईयर दो हज़ार तेईस की शुभकामनाएं देता हूँ और भगवान से प्रार्थना करता हूँ। भगवान, वित्तीय ईयर दो हज़ार तेईस हमारी कंपनी के लिए और हमारे लिए अच्छा और सबसे पहले सर, मैं हमारे नए सेक्रेटरी का स्वागत करता हूँ और आशा करता हूँ हमारे साथ उनका अच्छा रिलेशन बना रहेगा, सर। एक बार फिर हमारे जितने भी कर्मचारी और वर्कर हैं, उनका आभार प्रकट करते हुए, मैं अपना वक्तव्य समाप्त करता हूँ। जय हिंद, जय भारत, नमस्कार। Thank you so much. We now move to our next speaker member, Bimal Krishna Sarkar. Request you to accept the prompt on your screen, unmute your audio and video, and you may proceed with your question. Yes, sir. Hello, am I audible, sir? Yes, sir, you may proceed. Sir. Sir, very good afternoon, Chairman Sir. मैं Bimal Krishna Sarkar, [Foreign language]एक शेयरहोल्डर ऑफ द कंपनी। मेरा रेजिडेंस Kolkata से बोल रहा हूँ। Sir, पहले Chairman साहब, आपको धन्यवाद देता हूँ। आपने एक्सीलेंट और वैल्युएबल प्रेजेंट दिया है, कंपनी का परफॉर्मेंस के बारे में। धन्यवाद, Sir. Sir, Company Secretary Dubey ji, ... [Foreign language]उनका डिपार्टमेंट में Mohit Gupta ji, Ranjit ji, सब को ऑपरेट करते हैं, हमारे शेयरहोल्डर के साथ और सुंदर रिलेशन रखते हैं और Annual Report नोटिस और लिंक भेज दिया है। ठीक timely और ऊपर टेलीफोन बात भी किया है। इसके बहुत-बहुत धन्यवाद सर। सर, इस बार जो result आया है, सचमुच ये brilliant है। सर sale of coal ये increase हुआ है। सर, ये revenue from operation ये भी increase हुआ है। ये brilliant result है। सबसे भारी और बड़ी बात है ये Profit After Tax। इस साल during the year, ये significant result लेकर आया हमारा company। सर, last year ये था as per consolidated statement। सर, last year INR 17,378.42 crore और इस साल during the year, सर ये INR 28,124.94 lakh। ये significant है। सर, बहुत-बहुत धन्यवाद। Chairman सर, आपका पूरा team को बहुत-बहुत धन्यवाद देता हूं। सर, Question No. 1। सर, मुझे लगता है पहले जो speaker है, most of the questions already raised, इसलिए मैं ज्यादा question नहीं करूंगा। सर मेरा एक question जानना चाहता हूं। page No. 470, note No. 34। सर, आपने write-up किया है, doubtful debt INR 191.90 crore। सर, इसके बारे में थोड़ा हम लोगों को बताएंगे, highlight करेंगे तो अच्छा रहेगा। किसको, किस पर ये ये doubtful था, कौन company का था, कौन party का था, इसके बारे में थोड़ा हम लोगों को जानकारी दे दीजिएगा। सर, coal production increase हुआ है 12.94%। सर, ये during the year 2022-23 और इस साल में 703.20 MT, last year जो यह था सर 622.63 MT। सर, हमारा company शुरू से आज तक जो highest production आई है सर, ये मैं आपका company का Chairman, आपका पूरा team, team को मेरे इसलिए बहुत-बहुत धन्यवाद। सर, CSR Committee को मैं धन्यवाद देता हूं। as per Section 135, Sub-section 5, CSR obligation INR 7.10 crore। CSR पूरा project both ongoing project and other ongoing project, other project। सर, INR 41.17 crore total spend किया है हमारा CSR Committee और खर्चा किया है INR 44.94 crore। सर, मेरा last question यह है, question नहीं है सर, ये मेरा suggestion है। Visually disabled तो specially abled person जो लोग देख नहीं पाते हैं, विकलांग हैं, उन लोगों को कुछ करें through CSR activities। Chairman सर, आप स्वस्थ रहिएगा, आपका पूरा team, company, Secretary, सारे employees स्वस्थ रहे, ईश्वर से प्रार्थना करते हुए मेरा वक्तव्य conclude करता हूं। Thank you very much सर। [Foreign language]थैंक यू सो मच। वी नाउ मूव टू द नेक्स्ट स्पीकर मेंबर। आनंद्या सुंदर रॉय, रिक्वेस्ट टू काइंडली एक्सेप्ट द प्रॉम्प्ट ऑन योर स्क्रीन, अनम्यूट योर ऑडियो एंड वीडियो एंड यू मे प्रोसीड विद योर क्वेश्चन। वी विल वेट फॉर अ मोमेंट, वाइल द स्पीकर मेंबर अनम्यूट ऑडियो एंड वीडियो। यस, यू मे प्रोसीड। [Foreign language]हेल्लो! गुड आफ्टरनून सर। चेयरमैन ऑफ द मीटिंग, बोर्ड ऑफ डायरेक्टर्स, एंप्लॉईज ऑफ द कंपनी एंड कंपनी सेक्रेटरी एंड माय फेलो शेयरहोल्डर। माय नेम इज एएस रॉय। बिफोर आई स्टार्ट माय स्पीच, आई जस्ट लाइक टू पे माय केंडोलेंस फॉर ऑल द डिपार्टमेंट सोल्स एट दिस डेंजरस इंडस्ट्री। जोस हु हैव लॉस्ट दियर लाइफ्स टू एनलाइटन द होल सिस्टम ऑफ द वर्ल्ड सर। एंड माय ऑल्सो आई पे रिस्पेक्ट टू यू सर, बिकॉज यू आर ऑल्सो डूइंग द सेम थिंग इन द सो फार। सर, माय ऑल द क्वेश्चन हैव बीन सिंस हैव बीन रेजड, सो आई हैव ओनली वन थिंग सिंस दिस टू से कि सिंस दिस इज नॉट एनी सस्टेनेबल इंडस्ट्री एंड वी आर नॉट एनी प्रोडक्शन इंडस्ट्री, वी आर ओनली एक्सट्रैक्टिंग एंड प्रोसेसिंग इंडस्ट्री। सो व्हाट इज द फ्यूचर? [Foreign language]एज लॉन्ग एज द रिजर्व इज देर, वी, वी सरवाइव। मेबी दिस इज फॉर फिफ्टी, फिफ्टी इयर्स और मोर। आई डोंट नो एक्जेक्टली एंड सिंस देर आर हैब ऑफ इलीगल माइनिंग, देर आर सो ऑन, देर इज अ लॉस ऑफ मेनी नेचुरल। आई मीन कोल्स, बिकॉज ऑफ बर्निंग ऑफ दैट। सो आई, आई, माय सजेशन इज दैट, व्हाई डोंट वी इन फूल सी वी हैव द लार्जस्ट एरिया ऑफ ऑपरेशन, ऑपरेशनल एरियास, आस इन टर्म्स ऑफ अदर इंडस्ट्रियल सेक्टर। सो व्हाई डोंट यू वी यूज एंड यूज फॉर द पर्पस ऑफ प्रोडक्शन ऑफ नॉन... जनरेशन ऑफ एनर्जी, लाइक फ्रॉम, लाइक सोलर वी, वी पुट ऑल सोलर वी कन्वर्ट इट टू फुल सोलर सिस्टम, एनर्जी जनरेटिंग सिस्टम। एज वी कैन बी ऑल्सो सप्लाई टू द टू द होल सिस्टम विद द जनरेटिंग ऑफ पावर, पावर, सोलर, सोलर एनर्जी, जनरेटिंग पावर, पावर प्लांट।... Sir, whatever so far you have done for CSR, everything is so, I have nothing to ask you for anything more. just I would, I, I would, before I, before I say something, I, I mean, to conclude, I would like to pay my respect to our newly appointed secretary, Bijay Prakash Dubey Ji, who is a very gentleman and a very, very good-hearted man and very duty-bound person as our former secretary, Sri Viswanathan Ji. I wish you all everything. Sir, CSR, everything is so good. I have nothing more to say. it is so late, sir, because I have applied for my, for my number within 10. Yeah, I, I, I've been allotted to 24, so it is very, very late, and I'm confused with my further speech. I wish you all from, from the bottom of my heart, and for you all risking, once again, risking, to enlighten us, the whole, world with this, in, in this, I mean, industry. Thank you, sir, all. Stay well, stay, stay safe. My name is A.S. Roy. Thank you. Thank you so much. We now move to our next speaker member, Atanu Saha, who had connected as a speaker shareholder but is currently not connected with us in the meeting. We move to our next speaker member, Amit Kumar Banerjee. Request you to kindly accept the prompt on your screen, unmute your audio and video, and you may proceed with your question. Hello. Yes, sir, you may proceed. A very good afternoon to everyone. Respected chairman of the meeting, other board members present. Myself, Amit Kumar Banerjee, from city of Kolkata. Thank you for getting me connected and opportunity to speak. Such a wonderful meeting today, organized by your company, Coal India Limited. It is our 49th annual meeting of the company. Coal India, it is one of the largest coal-producing company in the world, a Maharatna company. As regards the performance is concerned, yes, it is very good. Nice growth, strong financial presentation. Total revenue increased with a tune around INR 1,600 crore, INR 503 crore. Profit After Tax stood about INR 14,802 crore, increase in comparison with the last year as well as the balance sheet. EPS is also up, about INR 45.70. Dividend is also there. All those expenses, sir, it looks higher side, so kindly keep attention over there. Miscellaneous is about INR 27.36 crore, which is an increase from last year. Donation, I don't know exactly, is a INR 15.48 crore. Last year it is only INR 3.28 crore. Traveling, INR 11 crore. Consultancy, legal is around INR 4.24 crore, INR 25.30 crore, INR 23 crore. It's a very higher side, sir, so kindly keep attention. Such a peripheral expenses like miscellaneous, traveling, we could resolve the whatever the issues this concerns through video conferencing and other. kindly keep attention over there. Sir, I'd like to know about a risk management issue. Vision, kindly discuss and share your views. Research and Development cost to sales for next three years. Sir, I would suggest consider plant visit with lunch, so that we could see, also observe the necessary infrastructures over there. What is the key challenges now at present? Kindly share your views. Even it is said, the EPS is about INR 45.70. It's very good. Consider bonus, because we are waiting for that bonus, so we try to consider such things to the minority shareholders. I hope our company will definitely grow up more with better result year ahead. I thank our company secretary, Mr. B.P. Dubey, and his secretarial team also for good investor services. Also, thank to all team members, including our video operating team. for smooth conducting such a wonderful meeting today, I, myself, Amit Kumar Banerjee, over to you for further proceedings. Thank you, sir. Thank you so much. We now move to our last speaker member, Atanu Saha, whose connection we have just reestablished. Sir, we request you to accept the prompt on your screen. Kindly unmute your audio, and you may proceed with your question. Am I audible? Yes, sir. You may proceed. Yes, yes. Yes, yes. Good morning. The first is good morning, sir, because time, over there time is afternoon. My, I, Atanu Saha, a shareholder of Coal India Limited. My respected Chairman, my respected Chairman and Board of Directors, and all Independent Directors in different place, and our Company Secretary, Dubey Ji, who, which is newly, after Vishwanath Ji, and his all team. Mainly, this is Mohit Ji and Singh Ji, who informed me over phone and give me different information to connect and to present this meeting. CFO and all shareholders present in this virtual meeting, sir. Sir, today, our Coal India Limited is organizing its 49th Annual General Meeting. Just one year ahead, we observe 50 years Annual General Meeting. Sir, today is 23rd August. It's 23, our company. My previous shareholders, number of previous shareholders arise number of queries, so I, I just important factor for myself, sir. That is, sir, it's our. It's, it's almost debt-free right now, sir. and also good dividend, and paying a good dividend, and promoting it, it holds a decrease. One thing is that I'm importing you, that is, that is promoters holding is decreased right now, sir. Zero, minus 3%, sir. How do we influence the public shareholding, sir? Because this is Coal India. Sir, another thing is that, Yes. Already, number of queries, so I wish, a good year ahead, with good result. Before I, leaving, I wish, read a, a little, two or three lines a poem of Dr. H.P. Kanoria Ji of Universal Prayer. Oh, God, go out father, mother, friend. We, the children, love thee and our parents. Go out in our hearts and minds and make us fearless. We surrender our will, all the altar of the will. We love thee, though love us, to love our complete surrender. We aspire for work, knowledge and devotion. Work, work for the world and love, love and dream. Sir, I, ye hamara, ye hamara, ye hamara rashtra git, jo udja ka duniya mein le jayega. Sir, one thing, sir, this is very, very important for us. We, sir, think about the, our Coal India mining visits, sir. Very, very important. Sir, the page of 9, 59, the book I got, really very, very good book, like a textbook, which inform that, the 17 national information health information for new in, new world. Sir, it is written here that we, the nurture and strengthen the relationship with investors' community. Sir, this is a question, sir. What you have done? This, please. Thank you, sir. I, Atanu Saha, I hand over to our moderator. Thank you. Have a good day. Thank you so much. This was the last question. I now hand over the proceedings to Chairman, sir, for the proceedings. I will summarize the questions and will answer to the shareholders' questions and queries raised. Number one, Shri Subhash Kar, he has asked regarding the CapEx outlook for this year. Broadly, what are the areas we are spending in this headwise? Headwise, it is land. Land is one of the major heads, almost about INR 3 trillion, land building, P&M, in infrastructure, including roads. As we are geared up for 1 BT, our roads, railway lines, infrastructure has to be geared up. Mine development activities, including safety, new blocks, similarly, other initiatives like solar, JVs, and future upcoming projects like MBPL, these power plants we are doing, and other P&M equipment and all exploration and prospecting. These are the things which are covered in the CapEx. Second is, realistically approaching for production of 1 BT. Definitely. Last year, you have seen the results, against 700 MT, 703 from 622, almost 81 million growth. This year, 780 million, we are very confident of achieving 780 MT. Next year, it is 850. 2025-2026, it is 1 billion ton for Coal India. Hard copy, you have asked for annual report. I request our Company Secretary, this is some of the shareholders have requested, and it will be sent by post. Regarding the second, Manoj Kumar Gupta here, the no reflection in stock market share prices. It is continuously evolving, and production parameters, you have seen very encouraging results. In the last 15, 16 years, the first time, it was, the, the growth was, previous growth about 44 million. This time the growth was 82 million. You can see that thing, well, that is in the company's hand for to perform in all the sectors, right from production, profitability, dispatches, in even in environmental concerns, even quality, about 6% raise in quality of coal is also there. Coal shortage at power sector. As such, there is no coal shortage at this point of time. Almost + 80 million tons, both at power plant side and our stocks at Coal India, it has. Put together, it will last and we'll see, though temporarily in this August month, there was a peak demand has grown, but it will be met. The power sector, there is no shortage, absolutely, and I don't foresee any shortage in the coming months also. CIL is equipped to meet the country's energy security. Any plans to list subsidies in stock market? Yes, BCCL and CMPDIL as they're directed by MoC. BCCL, we are in the process. We are identified the banks and the procedure in back place. Definitely, these two subsidies, first BCCL, CMPDIL would follow. Improving conditions in hospitals, definitely, this is a thing where our personal department and we are also working, employee welfare, not only for our employees, for contractual employees and stakeholders also, we are extending the facilities. We are proud to announce that shareholders, where our villagers are also getting this nearby surrounding village, are also being treated in our dispensaries. Improper condition, this will be taken care from CSR. CSR for other hospital, this mega health camps are also being taken at many places in the entire coal producing mining area. Solar power and renewable energy. Solar power, we are definitely geared up. 3,000 megawatts is our target in the next 3 years. This year, about 388 megawatts. This is in pipeline, both the rooftop, ground mounted, and some floating also, it is in pipeline. See, Manas Banerjee has asked for coking coal next 3 years. What is the volumes? Last year, coking coal, washed coking coal, about 2.2 million we have produced. We have sent to SAIL and RINL. 1.45 million from BCCL. There is a tremendous growth in coking coal supplies also, but both the SAIL and RINL. This year, already in the first 4 months, again, there is a growth of 25%-30%. For next 3 years, we are very much confident that in the coking coal, supplies to washeries, every year on year, there is a growth of 20% in this sector we have kept. Regarding culture fertilizer in FY 2024-25, yes, in the Q3 of FY 2024-202025, it is, commissioning is possible, and right now, 50% commissioning is done, and the plant is, construction is at various stages is being done. Aluminum plant, presently, the proposal is dropped. We are not going ahead. New thermal power plants at MBPL in Mahanadi and MPPGCL in CCL, Madhya Pradesh, government, 116, 1, 16-60 MW plant is coming in with Madhya Pradesh government. In MBPL, 2 into 800 megawatts is under planning, and there are different power supply agreements also are in place. Mine visit, many shareholders have asked. I request company secretary to arrange a mine visit in the coming months. Santosh Chopra, annual report, the cover page you have mentioned, noted, and it will be sent in a better way next year. Amit Banerjee, absent. Sujan Mandal guidance to investors, investor-friendly capacity. The fatalities you have talked, for the serious accidents, serious and fatalities. Fatalities, we are also working, Coal India is continuously paying attention on safety. You could see the overall accidents in the last five years is on a reducing trend, till last year also, compared to the previous years. Even the loss of 30 lives also should not happen. That, that is noted, and every individual life is important from a company point of view, for their family, if, whether, whether it is a departmental worker or a contractual worker. This safety measures, it is a continuous process, and we will pay attention, and we will ensure that in future, these accidents will be reduced and this safety propaganda and other things will be in place. It will be on top priority for the top management of the Coal India. Solar energy, as I told earlier, CIL 3,000 MW is planned in next three years, and it is, we are going to achieve this target. Coal production, definitely next 20-23 years, under all the study reports, KPMG to all, we are sure, 2025, the growth will be there, the energy mix, if you see in the country, definitely renewable share is increasing. For the next 20-25, coal production will be there. Minimal growth also will be there. We should, we are also planning for diversification, whether it is power plants, whether it is solar installations and coal to gasification. Next, Lily Pradhan, madam. CSR activities, this microanalysis is definitely above INR 1 crore projects. We are doing the impact analysis across all the subsidies, we are awarding the third-party agency to study the reports, and they will submit. After the third-party evaluation, and the impact analysis, further course is being decided. Regarding CapEx, CapEx for the next three years in place, up to 1 billion ton, whether it is for land, whether it is for First Mile Connectivity projects, it is already in place. Tapas Kumar Duttaji, trade receivables in that doubtful buyers is asking some gen cos, INR 17,000 crore is right now the receivables. We are sure we will be realizing everything to the maximum extent, and it will be taken care. Audited results of the JV companies, except that everything is in place. Some small joint ventures at subsidy level is there, that also will be taken care. HURL losses you have mentioned, and whether it is viable, country needs urea, and it is a state-of-art technology, HURL is going. Just commission, I am sure in the one, two years, it will be breakeven and profits, it will come. Fatal accidents, you also mentioned. As I told earlier, plan to reduce accidents, whether it is by conducting safety drills in the subsidiaries, inter-area competition, inter-mine competition. It is by haul road management that transport equipment, separate lane for light vehicles and this transport vehicles, which is carrying the ore. Safety management plan is in place, but it is to be updated. Safety inter-mine competitions, we, we will take care. R&D, this year, 2022-2023, we have spent around, say, INR 62 crore. You asked for the percentage of the total revenue. In capital expenditure, it is around INR 16,500. It is almost about more than 12%-13% capital expenditure. This R&D we book in revenue. The INR 62 crore. Previously, it was previously it is INR 30-32 crore. It is also increasing. The focus on R&D is very much there. You asked for turnover ratio. You can see the financial position of the company. Ratios are being provided there. Disciplinary action against employees. Whomsoever does any misconduct, whether it is absenteeism or whether it is any dereliction of duties or anything, the proper code of conduct is there. As per the code of conduct, the action is being taken. Next is Ashit Kumar Pathak. Sri Ashit Kumar Pathak. This FY 2023, it is 893 countries production is there, out of which Coal India has produced 703, and others, they also produced around 190 million ton. In this year alone, with others, country will be reaching 1 BT. Our Coal India will be reaching 1 BT in 2025-2026, as per projections. Renewables, the installations are going. Coal to chemical, you have mentioned. One, the JVs are also in place. Cultural fertilizer, about INR 17,000 crore. The initial investment is there, and 50%, the plant is almost 50% is commissioned, and another 50%, installations is to be take place. Within, another 12-14 months time, it will be in place. The plant will be finally commissioned. E-auction, you told, E-auction, the rates, definitely total, out of production, about 10% is E-auction, it is allowed. E-auction, the prices, if you see, last year, 20-23, about INR 4,841 is e-auction per ton, and FSA sales, it is INR 1,475. Wash coal, it is INR 5,012. Overall sales realization is INR 1,835 per ton. The CapEx is in place for the next three years. Wage revision, you told, INR 8,153 crore. In this, already salary, new wage revision is already paid in the month of July salary. In September, the arrears are also being paid. Regarding bonus shares, before shareholders have mentioned that we are not going for. Next is Sri Jaideep Bakshi Ji. The utilization of land banks, as the focus is on utilization of land bank is there. This portal also we have uploaded, and all the subsidies, this land data digitalization is being done, and within a month it is being kept. This is the first time this action is taken from the last sixto eight months. From one point, we can know any state out of the eight producing states, we can see by the thana and where it belongs to whom, this is being done. 1 BT, the things necessary for 1 BT, the environment clearance, forest clearance, land clearances, we have to obtain. Development of MDOs, about 15 MDOs, constituting around 140 MT. 3 MDOs are already started operation. One is at Siarmul in Mahanadi, one is Ketki in CCL, and one is Horasi at ECL. These three mines are in operation, it has come, and other 12 mines are in different stages of award of work and obtaining clearances. See, next is Sri Kaushik. So far, the breakup of one is safety in mining operations, skill in upgradation and technology. Training, we have analyzed for next five years, our Personnel Directorate has analyzed along with Indian Institute of Coal Management, the workers, officer staff, next five years, what are the training modules which has to be taken and kept in place, that is being taken care. Next, mine visit, Sri Gautam Nandi, bonus shares we are not considered right now, but the mine visit is, we will arrange, as I told. Shailesh Madhavji, next. First, I appreciate that the age of 84, the queries you have raised, for any company like us, you are already, you have seen 49 years in business. We also expect at 84 years, when Coal India reaches, the same strength, energy, endurance, and the way you are asking questions, it is appreciated. Regarding plantations, different types of plantations we are undertaken, but this time, they're telling it is right from sesame and all, neem, sesame, amla, bamboo, kachnar, amrud, different type of plantations, and plantation target is 1,510 hectare, around 1,613 hectare already achieved. This year already, again, at the target of 1,820, 1,562, completed. another one and a half to two months rainy season is in place. Increased compensation package for executives. Definitely, this is a point we are noted. Quality of coal, 6% growth is there in this year, from 64%-74%, it is achieved. Regarding usage of ash, ash filling, at 3 or 4 mines in, one is at Mahanadi, Balunda, one is at Northern Coalfield, Block B, one is in SCCL, this underground mines also, bottom ash is being filled. The ash filling is properly in place. Some ash is transported to our construction of roads. Future of coal, definitely in the years to come, next 2 decades, it is sure to stay, but the energy mix, there may be percentage may be decreased, but it is going to stay. Digitalization of all operations. 7 mines, we are already DigiCoal. This Accenture, we have awarded a contract, 7 mines, 3 in SECL, Gevra, Kusmunda, Dipka, and 4 in NCL. They are in place, right from mine to market, right from drilling, blasting. Optimization of the mining operations is being studied, loading operations, transport operations, and store management. Everything is covered in this. 5G technology, you told, whether it will be adopted, definitely. Coal India technology adoption, it is, it will be adopting whatever the best technology is coming in the market, we are trying to implement. This next year, everyone has mentioned for this 50th year, 50th AGM, definitely we will plan accordingly. Next, Madam Anushree Sen, production cost, you have mentioned. Production cost, it is INR 1,522 per ton, against last year, INR 1,406. This is, increase in fuel stores and exposures, to some extent, it is due to this figures. Srikanta Sen asked for physical AGM. At present, this is virtual mode is going on. We will discuss with our board of directors in future. As per the government directors, it can be seen. Pollution, coal versus solar versus wind and renewables, we are going definitely solar. Wind, at least we are not there. In coal, steps to reduce pollution, CQPMS, continuous coal, continuous environment monitoring, ambient environment monitoring at many places, sidings and every mine, big, bigger mines we have kept. This is online being monitored by State Pollution Control Boards and Central Pollution Control Boards, with different measures like fog cannons, mist sprays, with vehicular dust suppression things and the design of all roads, we are trying to tackle this. Manpower, you asked, it is 239,000 on 1st of April, 2023. Mine visit, definitely we'll be arranging. Sri Bharatji, physical AGM and mine visit. Yes, we will be looking for mine visit. Sri Santosh Saraf, regarding fraud, cybersecurity already in 2, 3 mines, 2, 3 company subsidiaries, we have arranged cybersecurity and at Coal India level also. Our ED, IT, he is planning, ECT is planning for the cybersecurity training and across the companies. Female empowerment, we are conducting at different subsidiary levels also. Focus is there. this, some limit, this will be looked into, it is noted. Physical versus VC option will be there. Even if it is physical, that VC option will be definitely there. Shri Bimal Krishna Sarkar, doubtful debts, this is mostly in case of SAIL and RINL. This is on watch list accounts. It is INR 192 crore. It is a long-pending thing. This was considered, there was some dispute, and this was written off with the concerned boards of the subsidiary companies, and which is a genuine thing. Because SAIL and RINL, both are also public sector companies, and it was... In the country's interest, it was taken care. CSR expenditure, your company is in expenditure of CSR is almost INR 550 crore. Last 4 years, more than the targets, 107% it is done, and it is in the top 10 companies in India, maybe 7th place. I have to verify, but it is in top 10 companies, the CSR expenditure standalone, it is there. See, as right, the safety you have mentioned and condolences for the departed souls, each life is important, as I already told, and safety we will pay attention. This illegal mining you touched and burning of coal, except at 1 place at Dhanbad, there is area of a field. Other than that, every place is in control. There is nothing like burning in other subsidies. Area also, the fire, as per National Remote Sensing Centre, fire has come down, fire area, the extent of area is quite reduced, but still the precautionary measures have been taken into this. Last two, see, serial number first, Amit Kumar Banerjee. Regarding the donations you have noted, you have compared with the previous year. The previous year was COVID-affected, 2021-2022, but the things are noted and we will see. Risk management is in place. Risk for business, Risk Management Committee, of the subcommittee of the board is in place and takes the note of the entire operations. Research and development, INR 60 crore I told, and it is going to increase to INR 80 crore. Mine visit, you are told, and challenges with solar and renewable, definitely. These captive mines, the production is increasing, commercial mines are coming up, private sector has opened up. Definitely, there are challenges in the next two, three years. Once they come up, our biggest power consumer is NTPC. They are taking around 170 million, similarly, DVC, similarly, WPDCL. Such companies are also having their captive mines. They are also coming up. We are also working on it to both within coal sector and also with renewables, we are also going for 3 TW MW. Further also, the business opportunities and diversification, we are working on it. Last, see, Atanu Saha, this you have appreciated regarding this, and promoters holding decrease, you have told, and it is noted. This universal player love for the company, country, and all things you have mentioned. This, at this time, the government team is also country first and always first. Unless Coal India results improve, we cannot contribute to the company. With this, I thank all the shareholders. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Yes, I can say something? As required under SEBI Regulation 2015 and Companies Act 2013, Company has offered remote e-voting facility to its shareholders in respect of all resolutions proposed to be passed. In addition, we are also providing Instapoll, those shareholders who have not cast their vote through remote e-voting from August 19, 2023, at 9:00 A.M. and ended on August 22 at 5:00 P.M., IST, may cast their vote by Instapoll. Company has appointed Mrs. S. Basu and Associates, practicing company secretary as scrutineer, to scrutinize e-voting and Instapoll voting in a fair and transparent manner. The results of remote e-voting would be clubbed with Instapoll, and the results will be declared within August 25, 2023, at the registered office of the Company. The result will also be uploaded on company's website, on the website of NSDL, Also communicated to BSE and NSE. Detailed procedure for voting through remote Instapoll is mentioned in the AGM notice. Thank you, sir. I now read the resolution which are proposed before the AGM, sir, in brief, sir. Item number 1 is to receive, consider, and adopt the standalone and consolidated audited financial statements of the company and the balance sheet and the statement of P&L accounts, the reports of directors, auditors, and perform in India for the financial year ended 31st March 2023. Item number 2 is to confirm 1st, 2nd interim dividend and final dividend declared for the financial year 2023-2024. Item number 3 is to appoint director in place of Vinay Ranjan under section 152(6) of the Companies Act. Item number four is to appoint a director in place of Dr. M.B. Ranadive in terms of section 152(6) of the Companies Act. Item number five, special business ordinary resolution, is ratification of remuneration paid to the corporate Mr. R.N. Bansal and Company for INR 442,000 for the financial year ended March 2023. Item number six is an ordinary resolution, is appointment of Shri Nagaraju Maddirala as director in terms of section 161 of the Companies Act, 1957 thirty. Item number seven, special resolution, is appointment of Shri Kanchan Singh Rathore as independent director with effect from 2023. Item number eight is ordinary resolution, is appointment of Shri Vinod Kumar Saha as director in terms of section 161 of the Companies Act. All the business are set out in notice. The meeting has been concluded, and a time period of 15 minutes would be given for voting at the meeting, after which the meeting shall stand closed. Shareholders who have not cast votes through remote e-voting can vote, can cast the vote through Instapoll. I would add, I would, I would raise my-... It's my duty to offer a vote of thanks for attending this AGM, sir. At the outset, I would like to thank the Promoted Ministry, of course, for their continued support and guidance. I'd like to thank Shri P.M., Sir Chairman, our chairman, for steering and guiding this quarterly AGM, sir. I would like to thank Shri Nag Raju, Secretary Government Director, for attending this meeting, sir. I would like to thank independent directors, Professor Gollapalli Rao, Shri Kamesh Kanacharia, Shri Dinesh Singh, Shri Rajesh Bhojraj, Dr. Arun Oraon, Shri Makhwana Punambai Talibai, Shri Ganshyam Singh Rathore, for attending this meeting, sir. I would like to thank our Company Directors, Shri Vinay Ranjan, Director of Personnel, B. Reddy, Director Technical, Shri Debasis Nanda, Director Business Development, and CEO Additional Charge, and Shri Mukesh Chaudhary, Director of Marketing. The Company Secretary has played a key role in organizing this quarterly Annual General Meeting. I would like to thank our dynamic team, comprising of Shri Sujito Sarkar, Shri Ranjit Singh, Shri J.P. Shaw, Shri Bhaskar Sharma, and Shri Mohit Gupta, and other executives for the hard work and dedication. I would like to thank the finance team, led by Shri S.K. Mehta, ED Finance and CFO, and the central finance team for timely submission annual accounts and getting AGM clearance. I would be mistaken if I don't extend my vote of thanks to our previous chairman, Shri Pramod Agarwal, for his able leadership and guidance for the financial year 2023, sir. I would like to thank all other departments and other stakeholders who have played a key role in this annual general meeting, sir. Sir, last four lines, sir. I thank all the participants for making it convenient to attend the meeting. CL will continue to strive hard to achieve its objectives to meet the nation's energy need. Thank you. Dear members, as advised by the scrutinizers, the time for e-voting has elapsed. They are of the view that all members who are participating in the annual general meeting have been given adequate time and opportunity to vote at the AGM. This concludes the proceedings of the 49th annual general meeting of Coal India Limited. Thank you all for participating in the AGM and e-voting.