As advised by Ministry of Coal, CMPDIL(CENTRAL MINE PLANNING AND DESIGN INSTITUTE LIMITED) has developed a Coal Mining Surveillance & Management System (CMSMS) software in coordination with Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Application and Geo-informatics (BISAG), Gandhinagar and Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), to use space technology for curbing illegal coal mining activity in the coalfield areas of country.
Khan-Prahari Mobile Applications is a tool for reporting any illegal coal mining incident through geo-tagged photographs as well as textual information by any individual.