Shivani becomes 1st woman excavation engineer at Coal India arm's open cast mine

Rajasthan's Shivani Meena, an IIT Jodhpur alumna, has become the first woman excavation engineer to work in an open cast mine at government-owned Coal India's subsidiary Central Coalfields. Meena has joined Jharkhand's Rajrappa project and will look after maintenance of heavy machineries. Earlier, Akanksha Kumari became Coal India's first woman mining engineer to work in an underground mine.