Reinventing Jharia Coalfield

Contents: Preface. 1. Future mining strategy for Bharat Coking Coal Ltd./B.N. Pan. 2. Reinventing Jharia coalfield, role of Indian school of mines/B.B. Bhattacharya. 3. Present social environment and future prospects for Jharia coalfield/N.C. Saxena. 4. Jharia coalfield : revival and long term sustainability/R.S. Singh. 5. Blasting over developed coal pillars/A.K. Mishra, P. Balamadeswaran and Manish Sinha. 6. Blasting operations in fire affected areas/R.V. Erady and P.R. Prasad. 7. Note on BCCI/S.M. Koley. 8. Status of mine fire of Jharia coalfield and suggestions for prevention and control/R.V.K. Singh and V.K. Singh. 9. Mine fire problem in Jharia coalfield--a scientific approach for its diagnosis and control/N. Sahay, N.K. Varma, I. Ahmad, S.K. Ray, V.K. Singh and D.D. Misra. 10. Mine fires--need for technical audit/K.K. Malhotra and Gurdeep Singh. 11. Tools for ventilation of fire affected mines/N. Sahay, N.K. Varma, I. Ahmad, R.P. Singh and D.D. Misra. 12. Subsidence management in Jharia coalfield/Bijay Kumar and N.C. Saxena. 13. Pattern of extraction and long-term stability analysis of left-out pillars for subsidence control with the help of numerical modelling/S.K. Singh, A. Kushwaha, R. Singh, John Loui P. and R. Bhattacharjee. 14. Natural cokes (Jhama) of Jharia coalfield--a critical appraisal for industrial use/A.K. Singh, K. Sen, N. Chaudhury and S.K. Hazra. 15. Search for appropriate strategies on coking coal utilization--a pressing need for sustainable development of Jharia coalfield/K. Sen, N.S. Das, A.K. Singh and R. Dasgupta. 16. Augmentation of underground pumped out water for potable purpose from coal mines of Jharia coalfield/Gurdeep Singh. 17. Reinventing Jharia coalfield--suggested action plan for attitudinal change to achieve the desired results/K.C. Vijh. 18. Environment management and sustainable development in Jharia coalfield--some vital issues/B.K. Samanta and A.B. Samaddar. 19. Eco-restoration of over burden dumps through the plantation of high photosynthetic/soil binder species/N.K. Srivastava, L.C. Ram, R.C. Tripathi, S.K. Jha, A.K. Sinha, G. Singh and P.S.M. Tripathi. 20. Technical solution vis-a-vis human and social problems prevailing in Jharia coalfield/M.K. Thapar. 21. Environmental management in Jharia coalfield--an overview during the last two decades/B.K. Sharma and E.V.R. Raju. 22. Post-mining land-use planning strategies for Jharia coalfield--a GIS approach/E.V.R. Raju and Rekha Ghosh. 23. Coal bed methane recovery--a helping hand for BCCL/N.N. Gautam. 24. Prospects of coalfield methane exploitation in the Jharia coalfield/A.K. Singh and N.N. Gautam.