Officials from mining companies and equipment manufacturers participated in the seminar.

Bangalore, April 18, 2025: Directorate General of Mines Safety, Ministry of Labour & Employment, Govt. of India organised two day National Seminar on 16th & 17th April 2025 at Bengaluru, on “Safety challenges in Bulk Material Handling Equipment of Mining (Coal and Non-coal)” under the guidance of Shri Ujjwal Tah, DG, DGMS as Chief patron.

Shri D Bageshwar Naik, DDG(Mech) as Chairman, Shri Ajay Singh, DDG (Elec), Shri R T Mandekar, DDG, NW Zone, as co-convenor, Shri P M Prasad, CMD, CIL,  Shri Amitava Mukherjee, CMD, NMDC, Shri Uday A Kaole, CMD, MCL, Shri N Balram, CMD, SCCL are patrons to this seminar.

Dignitaries Shri Vinay Kumar, Director (Technical), NMDC, Shri S K Sinha, Director (Operations), HCL, Shri Nirbhay Sancheti, Director (SMS), Shri R A Meena, DDG(WZ), Shri Suprio Chakraborty, DDG (EZ), Shri Neeraj Kumar, DDG (NZ), Shri Satyanarayana, Director, SCCL, presided in the seminar.

Officials from mining companies, including CIL, NMDC, SCCL, HZL, HCL, MCL, Tata Steel, JSW, faculty members from premier mining institutes, experts from global mining safety organisations and research institutes and equipment manufacturers participated in the seminar.

In the seminar, 30 technical papers were presented, and a total of 58 papers were published in the souvenir for understanding and analysing the present safety challenges in Bulk Material handling in the mining industry, and deliberations were made to find out a way forward to mitigate associated risks.  This seminar provided a framework to ameliorate safety standards and to strengthen the implementation of statutory provisions to improve the safety and health of persons employed in the mining industry. The seminar concluded with a valedictory function and felicitation of the participants.