Central Mine Planning and Design Institute, Ranchi, a Mini Ratna Subsidiary Company of Coal India Limited is the Nodal Agency for coordinating and monitoring of S&T projects of MoC. The job of co-ordination involves inviting new research project proposals, carrying out first level scrutiny, placing the selected proposals for consideration of Technical Sub-Committee of SSRC and SSRC, monitor the progress of the on-going projects at regular intervals, preparation of S&T Budget Estimates/ Revised Estimates, disbursement of funds to the implementing agencies based on the progress of the project, dissemination of research findings and provide assistance to the nodal officers of the concerned subsidiary/company for promoting their replication in field operations.