as on January 1997
  
 
DEPARTMENT OF COAL (DOC)
  
  Introduction  
       
 
The Central Mine Planning and Design Institute Limited (CMPDI) is the nodal agency for coordinating R&D activities in Coal and Lignite sectors. The Department normally supports projects of shorter duration (2-4 years), the findings of which, if completed successfully, can be used directly for commercial exploitation and benefit to the industry. However, in exceptional cases, research in newly emerging and front line areas of science and engineering and projects having long term implications can be supported.
  
       
  Name of scheme  
 
Standing Scientific Research Committee (S&T)  
  Standing Scientific Research Committee (S&T)  
       
  Objective    
 
Development of technology/system and its successful transfer for commercial applications.
  
  Who can submit a proposal  
 
Research and educational institutions, public sector undertakings and such other agencies which have capability to take up R&D work.
  
  When and how to submit a proposal  
 
The proposal in prescribed form can be submitted any time during the year. Initially only four copies of the proposal are to be submitted. Once the proposal is approved in principle, fifty copies with necessary alteration/modification are to be submitted.
  
       
  Areas of research support  
   
 
Production, Productivity & Safety
 
Coal Beneficiation
 
Coal Utilisation
 
Environment and Ecology
 
       
  Components of grant  
 
Equipment, salaries and allowances, consumables, travel and contingency.
  
       
  Items not allowed out of grant  
 
The following items are normally not funded from this grant except with specific approval:
  
 
Infrastructural facilities like land, building, furniture and fittings, calculators, computers, duplicating machines etc.
  
 
Salaries of permanent employees of the implementing agency
  
 
Honorarium to the persons who are already in the employment of the institution
 
 
Foreign travel
  
 
Purchase of vehicles
  
 
Employment of peons, khalasis, laboratory attendants, stenographers, typists etc.
  
       
  Mechanism of implementation and monitoring  
 
Standing Scientific Research Committee (SSRC) of the Department of Coal under the Chairmanship of Secretary (Coal) is the Apex body to plan, programme, budget and oversee the implementation of research projects. The SSRC is being assisted by four Sub-Committees, each dealing with one of the major areas. The research proposals are initially scrutinised by CMPDI. After the first level scrutiny, CMPDI shall submit these proposals with their own observations and recommendations to the Sub-Committee concerned. The Sub-Committee shall further evaluate the proposals and submit the proposals to SSRC for its consideration.
Once the project is approved by SSRC, a formal sanction letter addressed to CMPDI and the implementing agency concerned is issued by the Department of Coal.
 
The progress of work is overseen by the officials of CMPDI by periodical visits. The implementing agency is required to furnish quarterly progress report in the prescribed format so as to reach CMPDI by 20th of the following month. CMPDI submits a consolidated half yearly progress report to Department of Coal and to the members of SSRC. In case of major projects (costing more than ten lakhs with educational and research institutions and more than thirty lakhs with Coal companies), a Project Advisory Committee is constituted to review the progress of work.
 
A indepth review is carried out by the concerned sub-committee after every two years.
Sixty copies of the PCR are to be submitted to CMPDI. The PCR is preserved for future reference.
 
  Contact Address  
     
  General Manager (MT/S&T)  
  Mining Technology Division  
  Central Mine Planning & Design Institute  
  Gondwana Place, Kanke Road  
  Ranchi - 834 008 (Bihar)  

 

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