Bipartite Mines Safety meeting of Directorate General of Mines Safety (DGMS) and Central Coalfields limited (CCl) management was held at ‘Vichar Manch’ on Tuesday. Officials from DGMS South Eastern Zone Ranchi, Central Zone Dhanbad and senior officials of CCl participated in the meeting.
Sumit Ghosh, CGM (Safety and Rescue) welcomed the guest and gave power point presentation (PPT) detailing information on the safety measures employed at 63 mines of CCl.
The meeting was chaired by P Rangnatheeshwar, Deputy DGMS (Mines Safety), Dhanbad Headquarter. He welcomed the officials present on the meeting.
He wished that CCl will be able to contribute a major share of its production towards 1 billion tonnes coal production target of CIl and asked to be vigilant with the safety measure. He congratulated the CMD, CCl and his team for the excellent production and better mines safety provision.
In his address, Singh said that the overall excellent performance of CCl would have not been possible without the cooperation of officers of DGMS, ISO and CCl, State Government, Trade Unions, locals and all the other stakeholders and he thanked everyone for this. Singh said that mines safety is a priority for CCl and in CCl production and mines safety go hand in hand.
He informed that mist sprinkler will start working in next six months. He laid emphasis on the training of the employees. He said that with your cooperation CCl has performed better than other companies in areas of Over Burden Removal of coal. In the first half of the current financial year (2015-16), the company has registered 15% growth in coal production, 16 per cent in coal dispatch and 24% growth in over burden removal and is moving toward its set target. It has registered growth on every parameter.
He asked the ISO certification department to strengthen it so that special attention can be given to safety. He informed DGMS about the special attention given to skill development by the CCl and new recruit is being given technical training at MSDC, Barkakana..
He also said that the work is going in right direction on Period Medical Examination (PME) and Initial Medical Examination (IME) but we need to get it 100 per cent.