Indianmandarins has reliably learnt that the selection interview for Director (Tech) Central Mine Planning & Design Institute Ltd is expected to he held shortly. Reportedly, eight candidates, associated with Coal India, are in the race for the post. Of these eight candidates, Devendra Prasad and Dr Debashish Sarkar are serving with Coal India Limited as GM. The other candidates are Roopchand Sanodia (CGM, WCL/CIL), Sunil Kumar Jha (GM, NCL/CIL), Chanchal Goswami (GM, NCL/CIL), Amit Kumar Dhar (GM, ECL/CIL), R N Som (GM, ECL/CIL), Virendra Kumar Srivastava (GM, ECL/CIL). In the company, ,of four sanctioned posts of Director (Tech), one has been lying vacant.