UTTAM APP for Monitoring Coal Quality

• The Union Minister for Railways and Coal Shri Piyush Goyal launched UTTAM App for Coal Quality Monitoring.
• UTTAM stands for – Unlocking Transparency by Third Party Assessment of Mined Coal (uttam.coalindia.in). 
• The Ministry of Coal and Coal India Limited (CIL) developed UTTAM, aims to provide an App for all citizens and coal consumers to monitor the process of Third Party Sampling of coal across CIL subsidiaries. 

Benefits

• Specific benefits of the UTTAM App would be
  1. For Subsidiary structure: The information about subsidiary wise declared GCV will help citizens and coal consumers to compare and assess the coal quality coming from a particular mine. 
  2. It will provide a proper mapping of declared grade of coal dispatch to the consumers.
  3. For Coal consumer portal: The portal would give detailed information for coal consumers regarding the Third Party Sampling parameters. 
  4. The App will give access for monitoring coal quality to individual coal consumers.