NEW DELHI | Aug 11, 2016: Coal India Limited has deployed GPS-enabled vehicle tracking systems and CCTV cameras at mines to curb coal pilferage, Union minister Piyush Goyal said on Thursday.

In a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha, the minister for power, coal, renewable energy and mines said that the state-run miner has taken steps such as implementing Global Positioning System or GPS-based vehicle tracking system on trucks carrying coal to arrest diversion of coal, installation of closed circuit televisions (CCTVs) at vulnerable points like entry and exit gates, weigh bridges and sidings to keep a regular watch, installation of radio frequency identification device or RFID tags on vehicles with readers at suitable locations and boom barriers to identify illegal trucks carrying coal to prevent pilferage of coal from mines in the country.

"Control rooms have been established in each areas of the company in order to take prompt action whenever any alert or exception report is generated from the vehicle tracking system," Goyal said.

(Source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/)