South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL), a flagship subsidiary of Coal India Limited, celebrated the birthday of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and Lord Vishwakarma Jayanti by felicitating 75 coal mining workers with the SECL Vishwakarma Awards at a grand ceremony held at its headquarters in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh. This maiden edition of the Vishwakarma Awards honoured the dedication, hard work, and outstanding service of workers from mining operations, maintenance, supervisory, and allied roles across SECL mines. The ceremony was presided over by Shri Harish Duhan, CMD, SECL, in the presence of functional directors, trade union representatives, HoDs, officers, and employees. In his address, Shri Tokhan Sahu appreciated SECL’s initiative to institute the Vishwakarma Awards on the auspicious day of Vishwakarma Jayanti, aligning it with the Prime Minister’s birthday as a symbolic tribute to the spirit of hard work and nation-building. In addition, SECL rolled out a special one-day initiative, “SECL-17: Vishwakarma Seva Sankalp”, across its ten operational districts in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.