Course description:
The importance of mining
can be judged from the fact that stages in the progress of mankind’s culture
have been designated by the products of mining: Palaeolithic (Old Stone) Age,
Neolithic (New Stone) Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. Dependence of the human
race on minerals will continue indefinitely and, in fact, technological
progress will place increasing demand upon the mining industry to produce more
and more minerals. Today, the country is starving for energy which is vastly
depends upon the fuel minerals such as Coal. Oil, etc. these needs can be
fulfilled only by the scientific management from the emerging graduate mining
engineers.
Career opportunities:
The students passing out
from this Department have currently occupied top positions in the government
and in the mining industry, both in India and abroad. The posts of Director of
Mines Safety, Controller-Indian Bureau of Mines, Chief Executive of the mining
companies and senior executives of many other companies, both in the public and
private sector, have been occupied by the ex-students of the Department. The
companies includes mineral industries such as Neyveli Lignite Corporation, Coal
India Limited, National Thermal Power Corporation Limited, Hindustan
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