[To be published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-Section (i)]

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF MINES

                                                                 

     NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 25th September, 2000 

G.S.R. 744(E): In exercise of the powers conferred by section 18 of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 (67 of 1957), the Central Government hereby makes the following  rules further to amend the Mineral Conservation and Development Rules, 1988, namely :- 

1.         These rules may be called Mineral Conservation and Development (Second Amendment) Rules, 2000.

 2.         They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

 3.         In the Mineral Conservation and Development Rules, 1988, in rule 42, for the portion beginning with the brackets, figure and words   “(i) in case of a mine” and ending with the words “a whole-time mining engineer”,  the following shall be substituted,  namely:-

 “(i)    in case of the following category ‘A’ mines, a whole-time mining engineer, namely :-

(A)    fully mechanised category ‘A’ mines which shall be such mines where the work is being carried out by deployment of heavy mining machinery for deep hole drilling, excavation, loading and transport, and

(B)    other than fully mechanised category ‘A’ mines which shall be such mines where the number of  average employment exceeds one hundred and fifty  in all or seventy-five in workings below ground, or a mine where any of the mining operations like deep hole drilling, excavation, loading and transport is carried out with the help of heavy machinery.”

[F.No.7/3/99-MVI]

                                                                                

(S.P. GUPTA)

Joint Secretary to the Government of India

Note:- The principal rules were published in the official gazette vide GSR 1023(E) dated the 24th October, 1988 and were subsequently amended vide GSR 227(E) dated the 22nd April, 1991, GSR 580(E) dated the 4th August, 1995 and GSR 55(E) dated the 18th January, 2000.