Absolute results remain low overall and Coal India’s results are mostly limited to its formal commitments, for example on preventing bribery and corruption, ensuring safe and healthy working conditions, and managing its environmental impacts systematically, through the mitigation hierarchy approach.

Coal India ranks 22nd among the 38 companies on its mine-site-level results, with an average score of only 9% in the mine-site assessment.

In the company-wide assessment, Coal India again shows a relatively stronger result on the issue of managing noise and vibration impacts. The company has corporate guidelines designed to ensure its operations regularly assess the noise and vibration levels generated by their activities, and develop strategies to reduce these impacts.

Overall however, Coal India’s results are below the average across all 38 companies in all six thematic areas.

Coal India’s overall results are limited by a lack of evidence of action on a number of key issues. For example, while the company has made some level of commitment to respect human rights, it shows no evidence of undertaking human rights due diligence or reporting on its management of human rights issues. Coal India also shows no evidence of tracking or reviewing its performance on managing water quality or water quantity, or of disclosing the payments it makes to sub-national or national government.

The overall results of the five Coal India mine sites assessed are strikingly weak. None of these mine sites show any relevant evidence for six of the ten issues covered: local employment, local procurement, post-closure planning, community grievances, worker grievances and emergency preparedness.