The Mining Engineers’ Association of India – Rajasthan Chapter Udaipur celebrated Indian Mining Day on 01st November at noon.

The program included a Technical Talk on the topic “Safety Problems of Deeper Opencast Mines”.

The Talk was delivered by S. M. Suthar, Director of Mines, Directorate General of Mines Safety, Govt of India, Udaipur.

In the Programme, R. P. Gupta, A. K. Kothari, Y. C. Gupta, Dr. S. S. Rathore, Dr. S. C. Jain and N. C. Bansal along with about 50 other Mining Engineers gave their valuable suggestions.

S. M. Suthar in his talk suggested that the problem will be sorted out in case deeper open cast mines are converted into underground mines.

Safety problems of Rampura Agucha Mines of Hindustan Zinc Limited were also discussed in details.

Slope stability radar is used for monitoring of slopes. Vice-Chairman Dr. S. S. Rathore welcomed the speaker S. M. Suthar and a memento was presented to the speaker by A. K. Kothari, Vice-President, MEAI.

Vote of thanks was given by I. S. Surana, Chairman, Technical talk Committee.