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CMYK Date of Publication: 24-2-2018 Regd. with RNI R.No. 71519/99; No. of Pages: 36+Cover 4 Date of Posting: 29 / 30 of every month Postal Regd. No. H-HD-GPO/024/2018-2020 Official Publication of Mining Engineers’ Association of India Price `100/- Vol. 19 No. 8 MONTHLY March - 2018 Mining Engineers’ Association of India Flat-608 & 609, Raghava Ratna Towers, A-Block, VI Floor, Chirag Ali Lane, Abids, Hyderabad - 500001 Ph.: 040 - 66339625, 23200510, Email: [email protected] Website: www.meai.org CMYK CMYK Date of Publication: 24-2-2018 Regd. with RNI R.No. 71519/99; No. of Pages: 36+Cover 4 Date of Posting: 29 / 30 of every month Postal Regd. No. H-HD-GPO/024/2018-2020 Official Publication of Mining Engineers’ Association of India Price `100/- Vol. 19 No. 8 MONTHLY March - 2018 Mining Engineers’ Association of India Flat-608 & 609, Raghava Ratna Towers, A-Block, VI Floor, Chirag Ali Lane, Abids, Hyderabad - 500001 Ph.: 040 - 66339625, 23200510, Email: [email protected] Website: www.meai.org CMYK Official Publication of Mining Engineers’ Association of India Vol. 19 No. 8 MONTHLY March - 2018 this issue contains... President’s Message 5 Editor's Desk 7 President News from the Mining World 8 Arun Kumar Kothari Vice President- I Vice President - II Vice President - III ‘Powder Factor’ Based Tenders – 13 to 24 pages S.K. Pattnaik K. Madhusudhana S.N. Mathur - Master will be black Progressive or Regressive? 15 Secretary General - M.O. Sarathy - Images will be gray Dr. H. Sarvothaman Table lines BLACK Jt.Secretary.cum.Treasurer MEAI News 31 Box lines BLACK M. Chakradhar - all colours convert into BLACK Ex-officio Council Members Conferences, Seminars, Workshops etc. 38 T. Victor, A. Bagchhi, Dr S.K. Sarangi, Dr V.D. Rajagopal, R.P. Gupta Council Members (Elected) nd st rd th A.L. Thakor, A.R. Vijay Singh, C.S. Dhaveji, D.A. Hiremath, Deepak Gupta, D.K. Saxena, D.S. Maru, Dr K. Srihari, Kolli Umamaheswara Rao, Maheem Kachhwaha, Correspondence Address Mahesh A. Bongale, M.S. Raju, Pankaj Kumar Satija, R.H. Sawkar, Raghunath Singh, Rajendra Singh Rathore, Prof Sushil Bhandari, MEAI National Head Quarters S.C. Suthar, S. Kumaraswamy, Vilas Teggi Contact: Secretary General, Mining Engineers’ Association of India Representatives of Life Institutional Members F-608 & 609, Raghavaratna Towers, ‘A’ Block, VI Floor, The India Cements Ltd (LIM No. 16) The Ramco Cements Ltd (LIM No. 17) Chirag Ali Lane, Abids, Hyderabad - 500 001. Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation Ltd (LIM No. 18) Ph.: 040-66339625, 23200510 Associated Mining Company Ltd (LIM No. 19) E-mail : [email protected] NMDC LTD (LIM No. 20) website : www.meai.org Council Members (Nominated) T.N. Gunaseelan, A.K. Gupta, A.K. Sinha, S.M. Bothra, Deep Krishna The Views expressed by the authors in these pages are not Council Members (Co-Opted) necessarily those of publisher / editor / MEAI. Reproduction Dr N.K. Nanda, Prof B.C. Sarkar, Prof B.B. Dhar, M. James, Akhilesh Joshi in whole or in part is strictly prohibited without written permission from the publisher. Mining Engineers’ Journal, Vol. 19, No. 8 3 March 2018 Mining Engineers’ Journal, Vol. 19, No. 8 4 March 2018 President’s Message…… Colourful Greetings on Holi Festival. I am happy to inform our members that February has been an eventful month for MEAI and wish to highlight below a few of them. a) Inauguration of Conference-cum-Auditorium of MEAI HQ at Hyderabad on 24th January by Sri Ajay Mishra Ji, Add. Chief Secretary, Govt. of Telangana and holding 2nd Council Meeting followed by 2nd EGM and Editorial Board Meeting. b) Sri S.N. Mathur, our Vice President, successfully revived Veraval–Porbandar Chapter under the Chairmanship of Sri Arun Kumar Sharma, Sr. Vice President (Mines), Ambuja Cements Ltd., and Secretary Sri Manish Kumar Yadav, GM (Mines), GHCL Ltd. Congratulations to the new leadership of Veraval–Porbandar Chapter. c) Rajasthan Chapter-Jaipur organized a timely workshop on “River Sand & its Alternatives” on 11th February at Mining Welfare Centre in association with Department of Mines & Geology, Rajasthan. d) Hyderabad Chapter organized an International Conference-cum-Exhibition Mineral bearing areas not covered by forest or “MINING TODAY 2018” at Hyderabad from 14th to 17th February. His Excellency Sri ESL Narasimhan, Governor of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana environmentally fragile zones should be designated was the Chief Guest of the Event. Special Guest Hon’ble Union Minister of as Mineral Lands. This protection is essential to Mines, Sri Narendra Singh Tomar, distinguished Guest, Hon”ble Minister ensure mineralized areas not used for purposes other of Mines, Govt. of Telangana, Sri K T Rama Rao, Guests of Honour, Sri Arun Kumar, Secretary Mines, Govt. of India, Sri Jayesh Ranjan, Principal than mining, due to scarcity of minerals identified for Secretary, Govt. of Telangana and Sri Subhash Reddy, Chairman TSMDC extraction were the other dignitaries present on the occasion. e) MEAI submitted its comments/ suggestions in writing on the draft National Mineral Policy, 2018 to Ministry of Mines, Govt. of India. In my welcome speech, of the inaugural function of ‘Mining Today-2018’, I proposed the following key suggestions for the thoughtful consideration of the policy makers. • “Economical and environmentally viable progress in mining activities to ensure extraction of requisite quantities of mineral resources for national security and prosperity” should form the guiding principles of the National Mineral Policy. The hitherto deciding factors to regulate the mining activity - transparency and Govt. revenue, should be understood as responsibility and reward respectively. • Mineral bearing areas not covered by forest or environmentally fragile zones should be designated as Mineral Lands. This protection is essential to ensure mineralized areas not used for purposes other than mining, due to scarcity of minerals identified for extraction. • In order to promote ‘ease of doing business’, the mineral concessions granting procedures shall be made transparent with an assured security of tenure and include transferable exclusive rights to the explorer for extraction of underlying minerals along with seamless transition from RP to PL and to ML. • The private sector should be encouraged to take up bulk of the mineral exploration to curtail the use of taxpayers’ money by the government in the risky exploration activity. Upon finding of minerals if only the public sector companies allowed their mining, the private exploration companies should be adequately compensated and rewarded. • The government shall strive to ensure uninterrupted supply of minerals/ore to the downstream industry by enacting / amending all necessary laws, rules and regulations, in light of intervention of Hon’ble Courts in mining matters and through its judgments stopped mining activities and imposed huge penalties on mine owners. Orders such as the recent Orissa and Goa Order by Hon’ble Supreme Court putting a blanket ban on mining, adversely affect the livelihood of workers as well as the mineral availability and prices. • The rules and regulations shall be amended to ensure least delay, for want of compliance, in conducting exploration and mining activities. The flagrant waste of precious time must be reduced by incorporating time-bound “real” single window clearance, and even better - with pre-cleared projects including ready land. • The government should improve ease of doing business by subsuming existing multiple taxes and royalty into single (or at most two) head with or without allowable input credits, at globally competitive rates. • Construction sand is an essential mineral to all persons and necessary ingredient for the development of infrastructure, and offers purposeful employment in rural areas. However, sand mining today is passing through severe difficulties for one or other reasons. Lakhs of rural workers rendered jobless and the construction industry entirely paralyzed. If this problem is not resolved quickly, it may lead to mass discontent in the society. I shall continue to emphasize to my fellow members that technically, financially and well-networked MEAI will go a long way in shaping the future of our country. While we celebrate the Diamond Jubilee year of MEAI, let us contribute our best to strengthen the base and finances of the Association, and help revitalize the Chapters to perform to their best potential. Jai Hind. Arun Kumar Kothari President Mining Engineers’ Journal, Vol. 19, No. 8 5 March 2018 Mining Engineers’ Association of India Regd. Office : Rungta House, Barbil (Odisha) Presidents & Secretaries/Secretary Generals LIFE INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERS Period President Secretary/Secretary General 1. Aarvee Associates, Architects, 38. Orient Cement (LIM-059) MINING ENGINEERS’ ASSOCIATION Engineers & Consultants Pvt. Ltd. (LIM-049) 1957-64 B.L. Verma B.N. Kanwar 39. Panduronga - Timblo Industries (LIM-056) 2. ACC Ltd (LIM-25) 1964-67 N.S. Claire R.C. B. Srivastava 40. Pearl Mineral Ltd., (LIM-39) 1967-68 L.A. Hill S. Chandra 3. A.P. Mineral Dev. Corp.Ltd., (LIM-12) 1968-69 H.L. Chopra M.G. Jhingran 41. Priyadarshini Cement Ltd., (LIM-5) 1969-70 S.S. Manjrekar V.S. Rao 4. Aravali Minerals & Chemical Industries (P) Ltd. (LM-048) 1970-71 R.C.B. Srivastava M.G. Jhingran 42. Radials International (LIM-29) 1971-72 R.K. Gandhi B. Roy Chowdhury 5. Associated Mining Co., (LIM-19) 43. Rajgarhia Group of Industries (LIM - 050) 1972-73 I.N. Marwaha D.D. Sharan 6. Associated Soapstone 1973-75 R.S. Sastry M.S. Vig Distributing Co. (P) Ltd. (LIM-057) 44. R.K. Marbles Pvt. Ltd., (LIM - 52) 1975-76 G.L. Tandon K.K. Biran 45. Rajasthan State Mines & Minerals (LIM-053) MINING ENGINEERS’ ASSOCIATION OF INDIA 7. Belgaum Minerals (LIM-64) 1975-76 G.L. Tandon K.K. Biran 8. Bharat Alloys & Energy Ltd., (LIM-36) 46. Sagar Cements Ltd., (LIM-21) 1976-78 D.L.