Q. Who has become the first woman excavation engineer to work in an open cast mine at Central Coalfields Ltd?
Answer:
Shivani Meena
Notes: Shivani Meena, an IIT Jodhpur alumna, has become the first woman excavation engineer to work in an open cast mine at Coal India arm CCL (Central Coalfields Ltd). She will be posted at CCL’s Rajrappa project, one of the important enterprises of the coal mining behemoth. Until now the position belonged to men. The feat follows another milestone when Akanksha Kumari became Coal India’s first woman mining engineer to work in an underground mine at CCL’s Churi facility in North Karanpura area in Jharkhand.