Report on the Training of the Geologists of Tata
Steel by JCSES
A comprehensive training
programme for imparting training to the geologists of Tata Steel was taken up
by Jadavpur Centre for Study of Earth Science as per the request of Natural
Resource Division (NRD) of Tata Steel, Jamshedpur. The proposed training
encompassed broadly ‘Geological mapping, coal exploration techniques and other
associated studies, Coal Resource Assessment and Geological Report writing in
West Bokaro Coalfield, Jharkhand and the time scheduled wasaround two weeks.
Five faculty members
were selected to take up the assignment and as per their suggestions and after severaldiscussions
with NRD, Tata Steel a detailed programme was chalked out and the broad outline of the same areas
follows:
1.
Reconnaissance Traverse by four
faculty members along with officials of Tata Steel in Ara – Dumurbera area of
West Bokaro Coalfield for three days in the month of February 2013to
select the mapping area
And by five faculty
members between the periods from 9th to
22nd of April 2013 :
2. Introductory
lectures on different aspects of mapping& coal exploration, Gondwana
geology and local geological set up -2 days
3. Geological
mapping of coalfield along with lectures on different related geological topics
-7 days
4. Exercises
on different coal exploration
techniques, borehole core logging, assessment of coal resource of an explored
block and preparation of geological map, sections, charts, tables etc. and
report writing - 5 days
Training
programme for ten geologists was inaugurated on 9-4-2013 at the Training Centre
of Tata at West Bokaro and attended by Senior executives of Tata Steel,
Jamshedpur and W. Bokaro and was
followed by inaugural lecture on Gondwana basins of India
and coal/ lignite occurrencesby a faculty of JCSES. From the following day the
training continued uninterruptedly as per schedule and officials of Tata steel
extend their full cooperation to make it a success. Relevant noteson the
different topics and procedure for carrying out
necessary exercises were distributed to the trainees. At the end of
training all the trainee geologists submitted reports and the same were
scrutinized by the faculty members and returned to them. The evaluation test
covering all aspects of training was arranged on 22-4-2013. All the trainees
scored above 90%.
A valedictory function was organized by Tata
Steel in the evening of 22-4-2013 where the both the trainees and the faculty members expressed
their views on the training and the senior executives of Tata Steel also
conveyed sincere gratitude to the faculties of JCSES.
