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A N Sahay elected as MGMI president

September 15: A N Sahay, Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL), has been elected as the new President of the Mining, Geological and Metallurgical Institute of India (MGMI).

Sahay, a mining engineer and alumnus of IIT Kharagpur with more than three decades of experience in the coal industry, was elected at the MGMI annual general meeting held in Kolkata on September 13.

Sahay was Director (Technical) in the CMPDI from November 2007 to February 2011, before he joined as CMD of Mahanadi Coalfields.

MGMI was established on January 16, 1906 and has been promoting the study of mining methods and mineral occurrences in India.