CIL to induct 3,000 executives this year

Coal India Ltd (CIL), facing an acute shortage of executive manpower, has embarked on a recruitment spree. It plans to induct about 3,000 executives this year and 1,500 each over the next three years through departmental promotions, open selection and campus recruitments.

“The manpower gap in the executive level is around 4,000. We are trying to fill it through departmental promotions, open advertisement and through campus interview which started two years back. Through the open advertisement mode and departmental promotions, we are going to recruit 2,500 officials this year, while 410 would be campus intakes,” said R Mohan Das, director (personnel and industrial relations), CIL.

Kolkata-based CIL, the world’s largest coal mining company, had 387,645 employees, including 37,855 supervisors and 334,359 workmen, in October 2010. The rest, 15,431, were executives.

Das said 750 to 800 executive staff left CIL each year. “To manage it and cope up with our expansion plans, we have to increase the intake by 1,500 for the next three years and about 500 executives for 10 years after that,” he said. According to sources, the massive manpower shortage is due to a non-recruitment period of about 12 years, from 1995 to 2006-07.

The first batch of nearly 100 executives from Indian Institutes of Technology and National Institutes of Technology, has already joined the company. “It included 69 people for human resources, 10 for environment and others for material management and marketing departments,” he said.