Central Mine Planning & Design Institute Ltd(CMPDI)

NSE: CMPDIBSE: 544739

₹ 183.35-1.00%refreshed 26 Oct, 11:58 am ISTMarket cap: ₹ 13,091 crWebsite: www.cmpdi.co.inUpdated: 24 Oct 2026

About

Central Mine Planning & Design Institute Limited (CMPDI), a Mini Ratna Category-I subsidiary of Coal India Limited, provides integrated mining consultancy covering geological exploration, mine planning and design, environmental services, geomatics, laboratory services, coal washery consultancy, and IT services. It operates from its Ranchi headquarters and seven Regional Institutes across India, generating net sales of ₹2,316.53 Cr in FY26. CMPDI is the largest Accredited Consultant Organization in India for preparation of EIA and EMP, with more than 100 approved experts.^[1][2]

Business segments

Exploration is the largest segment: revenues of ₹1,110.55 Cr in FY26 (+14.4% YoY), covering departmental and outsourced drilling; segment profit was ₹163.47 Cr.^[3]
Exploration sales rose 13% to ₹498 cr in H1 FY27, driven by departmental and outsourced drilling; segment profit rose to ₹52.51 cr from ₹37.15 cr.^[4]
Planning & Design sales rose 23% to ₹219.47 cr in H1 FY27, and profit rose to ₹51.83 cr from ₹12.05 cr, led by ED-based jobs, R&D/S&T jobs and outside consultancy.^[4]
Geomatics sales rose 5% to ₹175.40 cr in H1 FY27, with segment profit of ₹143.69 cr; growth came from survey and OBR sales.^[4]
Environment sales rose 4% to ₹181.81 cr in H1 FY27.^[4]
Environment segment revenues were ₹404.12 Cr in FY26 and Geomatics revenues were ₹348.73 Cr; both had operating margins above 67%.^[3]
Planning & Design segment operating profit fell to ₹36.27 Cr in FY26 from ₹101.50 Cr because of a one-time pay upgradation charge of ₹53.79 Cr.^[3]

Operations and infrastructure

CMPDI is headquartered at Gondwana Place, Kanke Road, Ranchi, and has seven Regional Institutes at Asansol, Dhanbad, Ranchi, Nagpur, Bilaspur, Singrauli and Bhubaneswar.^[1]
CMPDI drilled approximately 11.50 lakh metres in FY26, about 14% more than in the previous year.^[1]
CMPDI prepared 31 Geological Reports in FY26, estimating about 11.8 billion tonnes of Measured (Proved) coal resources over about 306 sq km, plus about 3.7 billion tonnes in the Indicated and Inferred categories.^[1]
CMPDI prepared 30 Project Reports in FY26 that add about 148 MTY of incremental capacity: 11 for underground mines and 19 for opencast projects.^[1]
Up to March 2026, CMPDI ran 275 e-auctions for CIL subsidiaries covering more than 166 million tonnes of coal, with more than 8,000 registered bidders.^[1]

Key operating metrics

Operating profit margin on net sales was 34.74% in H1 FY27, up from 31.52% in H1 FY26.^[4]
Receivables were 4.66 months in H1 FY27, up from 4.43 months.^[4]
Net working capital was ₹2,202.97 cr in H1 FY27, up from ₹1,879.22 cr.^[4]
Operating profit margin on net sales was 32.06% in FY26, down from 38.40% in FY25.^[3]
Working capital days were 99 in FY26. The CIL Group debtor-to-sales ratio was 156.36 days in FY26, down from 173.10 days in FY25.^[3]

Customers and distribution

In FY26 CMPDI won 142 consultancy assignments from clients outside CIL, worth ₹131.02 Cr, and added more than 40 new clients.^[1]
Major outside clients in FY26 included NTPC Mining, WBPDCL, THDC India, TPGCL, the Government of Bihar, Adani Enterprises, Jindal Steel and Power, Jindal Power and CESC.^[1]
CMPDI sent 126 offers worth ₹92.73 Cr to outside clients in FY26.^[1]

Research and development

CMPDI completed 13 research projects in FY26 and has 40 ongoing projects with partners including IITs, NITs, C-DAC, CIMFR, CSIR, NML Jamshedpur and the University of Wollongong.^[1]
CMPDI has set up a National Centre for Coal and Energy Research (NaCCER) at Ranchi.^[1]
In H1 FY27, CMPDI signed MoUs with CSIR-CIMFR on coal gasification technologies and with Duke University on critical minerals.^[4]

Capex

Capital expenditure was ₹65.85 Cr in FY26, up from ₹31.94 Cr in FY25.^[3]
Capex was ₹11.08 Cr in Q1 FY27, down from ₹13.28 Cr in Q1 FY26.^[5]

Expansion and new mandates

CMPDI agreed with ICVL to prepare the DPR for the Tete East Coal Project in Mozambique, its first international consultancy assignment.^[1]
CMPDI won the REE Exploration Licence for the Nawatala Devigarh block in Rajasthan in the first tranche of the government auction; as of Q2 FY27, exploration is due to start soon.^[1][4]
CMPDI has signed MoUs with MECL for coal and non-coal mineral exploration and with NTPC Mining for mine development and operation consultancy.^[5][4]
In May 2025, CMPDI signed an MoU with the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons on data sharing and technology transfer for CBM and shale gas.^[1]
Under NMEDT funding, CMPDI completed three bauxite exploration projects in Jharkhand and two base metal projects for copper, lead and zinc.^[1]

Market Cap

₹13,091 Cr

High / Low

₹284 / 150

Stock P/E

21.8

Price / Book

5.8

Book Value

₹32

EPS

₹8.6

No. of Shares

71.4 Cr

ROCE

34.9%

ROE

26.9%

OPM

34.4%

Debt / Equity

0.00

Sales

₹2,317 Cr

Net Profit

₹613 Cr

Promoter holding

85.0%

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