e-Procurement at Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL): A Success Story

The e-Procurement for Works and Services was started in MCL on the 63rd Independence Day of the Nation and with this MCL entered into a new era of e-Governance. August 15th 2009 will be marked with golden letters in the history of MCL as on this auspicious day MCL became the first subsidiary of Coal India Limited to implement e-Procurement for Works & Services and also became the first Central PSU Company of the country to avail e-Procurement services of National Informatics Centre (NIC), Government of India with auto technical evaluation. The e-Procurement was made mandatory for all areas of MCL w.e.f. 15th September 2009. Here we have an Exclusive Talk with Chief Vigilance Officer, Sh. N. K. Pradhan, IRS, Mahanadi Coal Fields Limited, Govt. of India Undertaking.