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ENCLOSURE TO LR. NO.S-29021,22/01/2009-Genl/182, dated, Dhanbad, the 19th Feb., 2020 RE-ORGANIZATION OF REGIONS OF DGMS 1.0 Background Information: 1.1 The last reorganization of DGMS was carried out in the year 2009 when the then existing 6 zones with 21 Regions and 05 sub-Regions were brought upto the current level of 8 zones with 29 Regions and 3 sub-Regions with the addition of two new zones namely, Southern Zone and North Western Zone, and eight new Regions namely Varanasi, Surat, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bellary (up-graded from sub-region to Region), Guwahati (upgraded from sub – Region to Region), Raigarh and Gwalior. This reorganization was necessitated mainly to streamline the inspection system & proper functioning of the organization. Accordingly, the current jurisdiction of DGMS into 8 Zones, 29 Regions and 3 sub-Regions, was declared by the Chief Inspector of Mines under the powers conferred under Sub-Section 3 of Section 6 of the Mines Act, 1952 and notified in the official gazette vide Notification in Part II- Section 3-Sub-section(ii): S.O.3177 dated 15th November, 2009. Subsequently, Ramgarh sub-Region was shifted to Ranchi and merged with Ranchi Region of South Eastern Zone and notified in the official gazette in Part II- Section 3-Sub-section (ii): SO No. 724 dated 27.04.2018. The number of the mines spread over the country in the coal, metalliferous and oil/gas sectors, was 9613 as per the then records. 1.2 However, since then, both mineral output and the number of mines have progressively appreciated to the current level of 12553 as per records of the Shram Suvidha portal, corresponding to a significant jump of about 43 %, as shown below in the table. Total Number of Mines in 2009 Total Number of Mines in 2019 Organized sector Unorganized sector Total Organized sector Unorganized sector Total No. % of total No. % of total No. % of total No. % of total 1705 18 7908 82 9613 1463 11.6 11070 88.4 12533 Accompanied by this sharp increase in the mining activities, there have been increased cases of accidents – both fatal and serious. With this rate of increase in the number of mines poised to further shoot-up multifold in the near future due to the rising demand for infrastructure sector minerals mostly from the unorganized metalliferous mining sector, related OSH issues are also likely to commensurately increase. This newly evolving complex situation is further sensitized by the recent interim directions of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in connection with a pending PIL on the issue of prevalence of silicosis specifically in the unorganized mining sector. As per these directions, DGMS is required to not only conduct intense awareness campaigns on OSH in the unorganized mining sector, but also carryout OSH survey amongst the workers employed in this sector in all the States and to initiate appropriate mitigative and legal actions. 2.0 Inspections in DGMS so far, have been traditionally concentrated in the organized mining in the coal, metal and oil/gas sectors where there is a sizeable production and also deployment of workers. But here also, the OSH scenario is worsening progressively due to technical and administrative complexities introduced by way of increasing mining depth, vastness, erosion of regular workforce and their replacement by relatively very young, untrained and unskilled contractual workforce, with attendant disaster potential. Paradoxically, the above situation in combination with the wide and remote geographical locations of unorganized mines, constraints of matching logistical facilitations, growing public outcry by way of complaints, etc., have resulted in an urgent need of DGMS inspection activities to be delicately balanced to catering 1 to all sectors of mining from the current level which appears to be disproportionately tilted towards the organized sector as revealed by the following table. Total No. of Inspections/enquiries made during last three years (2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19) in the Organised sector (1) % of total Unorganised sector (2) % of total Total (1+2) 15,408 69.1 6,875 30.9 22,283 3.0 Therefore, with a view to qualitatively and quantitatively enhancing the DGMS’s OSH outreach equally amongst both organized and unorganized mining sectors and to realize the Government’s flagship policies of assured ease of doing business and ease of living, there is an urgent need on part of DGMS to establish a visible and measurable presence in the unorganized sector while also managing the increased OSH complexities introduced in the organized sector as mentioned above, the existing jurisdiction of various Regional offices of DGMS needs to be appropriately downsized to ensure qualitative delivery. 4.0 The above concerns were shared internally in the DGMS officers meeting held on 19-10-2019 at Hyderabad with a view to exploring all the possibilities of appropriately reorganizing various field offices of DGMS in so however, without any financial implication to the Government. Subsequently, the following officers who were nominated to a committee constituted for the purpose, held a meeting on the 14th of November, 2019 at Nagpur. (Letter No. WZ/SO/Meeting/2019/7872 dated 07.11.2029). Shri R.T.Mandekar DMS, WZ, Nagpur. Shri K.Mondal DMS, WZ, Nagpur. Shri A.K.Porwal DMS, NWZ, Udaipur. Shri B. Satiyar DMS, EZ, Sitarampur. Shri S. Chakraborty DMS, SEZ, Ranchi. Shri S.S.Soni DMS, SCZ, Hyderabad. Shri Aftab Ahamad DMS, NZ, Ghaziabad. Shri Mukesh Sinha, DMS, CZ, Dhanbad. 5.0 The following are the important common ground rules applied for the exercise on reorganization. (i) Adopting a common criterion of numerical rating for assessing the current mining activities as per LIN and also the potential mining areas in the unorganized sector with future implications, to serve as the common datum line. (ii) Restricting as far as possible, the jurisdictions of the proposed Regions to be contained within one State for sake of uniformity, conformity, better coordination with the local government authorities (DMG Dept., Dist. Collector, etc.) (iii) As absolute balancing amongst all Regions is highly unlikely with the aforementioned ground rules specially of (ii), care has been taken to ensuring optimum & best utilization of available DGMS infrastructure. 5.1 The following numerical rating system was used for awarding ratings to the reorganization exercise. Sl.No Coal/Metal/Oil Class or Kind of mines Numerical Rating Score I Coal (1a) Belowground 15 No. of mines x Rating (1b) Opencast 10 No. of mines x Rating II Metal - Organized (2a) Belowground 10 No. of mines x Rating (2b) Opencast 5 No. of mines x Rating III Metal- Un-organized (3a) Belowground 5 No. of mines x Rating 2 (3b) Opencast 0.5 No. of mines x Rating IV Oil/CBM (4) Onshore/offshore 10 No. of mines x Rating Total Regional Score = (1a)+(1b)+(2a)+(2b)+(3a)+(3b)+(4) The above rating system is basically comparative/relative amongst the proposed Regions and the absolute values do not have any bearing on the composition of any Region. 6.0 The initial draft submitted by the above committee was reviewed by a fresh committee of six officers (Letter No.WZ/2019/8746-51 dated 15.12.2019) constituted under Chairmanship of Shri Prabhat Kumar, the then Director, MSE, HQ, and now Dy. DG, SEZ, Ranchi on 17th & 18Th December 2019 at New Delhi (post NSA function). The matter was further discussed & examined in senior DGMS officers meeting on 06.01.2020 & 26.02.2020 at HQ, Dhanbad. The broad findings of the committee are as shown in Annexure-1. 7.0 From the above table, following is the list of all DGMS Regions after the proposed reorganization. No. Name of the New Earlier Present Remarks Jurisdiction Region Score Score CENTRAL ZONE, DHANBAD 1) Dhanbad Region-1 301 336 In the State of Jharkhand only 2) Dhanbad Region-2 310 363 In the State of Jharkhand only 3) Dhanbad Region-3 300 305 In the State of Jharkhand only 4) Koderma Region 379 379 In the State of Jharkhand and Bihar EASTERN ZONE, SITARAMPUR 5) Sitarampur Region-1 390 367 In the State of Bengal only 6) Sitarampur Region-2 395 360 In the State of Bengal & UT of Andaman & Nicobnar only 7) Sitarampur Region-3 340 305 In the State of Bengal only 8) Guwahati Region-1 415 245 Renamed In the State of Sikkim & Assam (except Tinsukia Dist.) only 9) Guwahati Region-2 - 170 New In the N.E States other than Sikkim & Tinsukia Dist. in Assam SOUTH EASTERN ZONE, RANCHI 10) Ranchi Region 402 402 In the State of Jharkhand only 11) Chaibasa Region 624 364 In the State of Jharkhand only 12) Bhubaneswar Region-1 514 387 Renamed In the State of Odisha only 13) Bhubaneswar Region-2 - 387 New In the State of Odisha only SOUTH CENTRAL ZONE, HYDERABAD 14) Hyderabad Region-1 650 405 In the State of Telangana only 15) Hyderabad Region-2 616 416 In the State of Telangana only 16) Hyderabad Region-3 - 419 New In the State of A.P only 17) Nellore Region. 380 406.5 New In the State of A.P only SOUTHERN ZONE, BENGALURU 3 18) Bengaluru Region 345 316 In the State of Karnataka, Kerala & UT of Lakshadweep only 19) Bellary Region-1 709 395.5 Renamed In the State of Karnataka only 20) Bellary Region-2 - 342 New In the State of Karnataka only 21) Chennai Region. 402.5 402.5 In the State of Tamil Nadu & UT of Puducherry only WESTERN ZONE, NAGPUR 22) Nagpur Region-1 401.5 310 In the State of Maharashtra only 23) Nagpur Region-2 396 320 In the State of Maharashtra only 24) Bilaspur Region-1 682 403.5 Renamed In the State of Chattisgarh only 25) Bilaspur Region-2 - 394.5 New In the State of Chattisgarh only 26) Raigarh Region 570.5 454.5 In the State of Chattisgarh only 27) Goa Region 360 360 In the States of Goa and Maharashtra NORTH WESTERN ZONE, UDAIPUR 28) Ahmedabad Region-1 700 399.5 Renamed In the State of Gujarat only 29) Ahmedabad Region-2 - 371.5 New In the State of Gujarat only 30) Udaipur Region 451.5 427.5 In the State of Rajasthan only 31) Surat Region 394.5 394.5 In the State of Gujarat only 32) Ajmer Region-1 740.5 416 Renamed In the State of Rajasthan only 33) Ajmer Region-2 - 313 New In the State of Rajasthan only NORTHERN ZONE, GHAZIABAD 34) Ghaziabad Region.