• He also inaugurated two flagship projects of Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) in Dhanbad.

Key Details:
Centre of Excellence (CoE): It will serve as a national hub for research and industry solutions in critical minerals, covering exploration, extraction, processing, recycling, reuse and waste-to-wealth.

• It will collaborate with industry partners and global universities such as the University of Cambridge(the United Kingdom, UK) and Saint (St) Petersburg University(Russia), with infrastructure support from IIT Gandhinagar (Gujarat), IIT Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh, UP) and Centre for Process Innovation (CPI), UK.

Virtual Reality Mine Simulator (VRMS): It is developed by IIT Dhanbad in collaboration with Coal India Limited (CIL) and its subsidiaries Northern Coalfields Limited (NCL) and Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL).
VR Theatre: The simulator features a 360-degree immersive Virtual Reality (VR) theatre, which recreates real mining environments using actual mine data.
Dugdha Solar Power Project: The 20-Megawatt (MW) Dugdha Solar Power Project was inaugurated in the Dugdha region of Bokaro (Jharkhand).

• The plant is expected to generate 37.43 Million Units (MU) of green electricity annually, reducing 33,000 Metric Tonnes (MT) of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) equivalent emissions each year.

Integrated Command & Control Centre (ICCC): It is an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled ICCC, serving as a digital brain for BCCL by using AI and real-time data analytics to centrally monitor mine sites, washeries, and transportation systems.