Coal India Limited
IIT (ISM) Dhanbad with the collaboration of CIL established the state of art CIL Innovation & Incubation Centre (CII Centre) under the flagship program – Atal Innovation Mission (AIM). Its aim is to engage the community at large in innovation and entrepreneurial activities. The centre focuses on nurturing early innovators to ideate in the domain of Technology Innovation and Community Skill Development (Highlighting the technology domain areas of CIL, for aligning with the possibility of promoting economically viable start-ups in the core business area of CIL and allied sectors) such as Sensors & Electronics, Mine Automation and Process Control, Mobile and Information Technology; Innovations in Mining Process, Technologies, Mine Machinery; Software-based Simulation and Optimization, CAD/CAM; IoT & Block Chain; Alternative Energy Audits; Clean Energy for Carbon Neutrality; Safety, Health and Environment, etc, and providing opportunities to innovate and design unique and incentivized solutions for the immediate beneficiaries like local community peoples, contract workers of CIL, students & employees of the institute, industry, society and nation as a whole.