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New Delhi : Union Minister for Railways and Coal Piyush Goyal on April 5, 2018, 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.
UTTAM App ensures accountability, transparency, effectiveness and efficiency in coal ecosystem. It provides a platform for monitoring of sampling and coal dispatches. The App is designed with an aim to making the citizens a stakeholder in the coal ecosystem. UTTAM is an example of leveraging technology to facilitate a bi-directional channel between Coal India Limited and a common citizen. It ensures transparency and efficiency in the coal quality monitoring process and brings coal governance closer to people, according to a PIB release.