A bipartite meeting was held between the management of the Central Coalfields limited (CCl) and the officials of the Directorate-General of Mines Safety (DGMS), at which safety of the mines and other related issues were discussed, in Ranchi city today. The bipartite meeting was organized by the Safety and Rescue Department of the company.
P Ranganatheeswar, Deputy Director General (Dy. DG), DGMS (Hq) chaired the meeting. Gopal Singh, Chairman-cum-Managing Director, CCl, D K Ghosh, Director (Finance), Area GMs, HODs and other senior official of CCl were present. S/Shree Sanjibon Ray, Dy. DG, DGMS(Central Zone), Kamlesh Sharma(DMS, SEZ), M K Maliviya( DMS, SEZ), M E Murkute (DMS, SEZ), S K Mandal ( DMS, CZ), R N Singh( DMS, CZ), Deo Kumar ( DDMS, Ramgarh), Prakash Kumar(DDMS, SEZ), S. Puttaraju, (DDMS, CZ), S Mishra(DDMS, SEZ), S S Soni, (DDMS, Koderma), A K Yadav (DDMS, SEZ), Arun Kumar(DDMS, SEZ) and others were also present.
Addressing the management of CCl, P Ranganatheeswar said that the DGMS team wanted to extend support to the company to meet the energy requirement of the Nation. “My colleagues are encouraging. They will hold frequents meetings at different level for safety of the mines,” Ranganatheeswar said while concluding the meeting. He stressed that the company should upgrade its existing Voluntarily Training Centre (VTC) and if require set up group VCT for capacity building of manpower ,who are working in mines. He praised the company for setting up an ITI for in-house trainings and arranging training for project affected unemployed youths.
Gopal Singh expressed his deep gratitude to the DGMS team for guiding CCl team with positive attitude. “It was structured a meeting between DGMS and management of CCl. Many issues were discussed related to the safety of mines and its workers. The company has to play significant role in production of coal to meet the energy requirement of the country in coming years,” Singh said.