Mining Engineering

About Department(120 Seats)

The Department was established in the year 2017 and has been in the forefront of mining education, research and consultancy services in India. It is located in close proximity of many mineral and coal mines both opencast and underground. The Department has well qualified faculty and staff dedicated to applied research in the field of Mining Technology, Geomechanics, Mine Environment and Safety Engineering, Solid Fuels and Clean Coal Technology, Mining Geology and Mine Surveying

The Department has also excellent computing facilities with the state-of-the-art softwares like SURPAC, WipFrag, JK Bench. The academic curricula is continuously revised to keep abreast of the industry needs as well as the vision and an all round development of students is aimed through practical training, field camps and study tours, seminars, project work, inter institute students technical meets and a host of extracurricular activities.

Aims & Objectives

Vision:

  1. To become a premiere institute in the field of mining engineering education by imparting quality education as well as innovative research for the sustainable development of society and nation.

Mission:

  1. To impart quality practical knowledge, innovative research activity and improved teaching learning methods in well-equipped labs &well-established infrastructure & to promote industry institute interaction and sharing knowledge to bridge the gap between the outputs and requirement of the industries.

Objective:

  1. Graduates will demonstrate excellent technical capability in the field of mining with all ethical values and capable to be employed worldwide.
  2. Demonstrate and perform well in planning & design of mines.
  3. Pursue higher education at national and international institutes to develop themselves continuously in both technology as well as managerial domain.

HOD Message

Welcome to the Department of Mining of PRIT (Dhanbad).The department was started with an initial intake of 120 students in 3 Years Diploma course which was subsequently approved by AICTE, Govt of India,New Delhi.
Since the inception of the department, it has contributed, through its well trained and efficient products and experienced faculty members, in a very positive way in the areas of coal and non-coal mining with regard to their management, planning, research and development. The department has the unique locational advantage of being in the middle of country’s prominent coal mining companies as well as various institutions and research organizations of national and international repute such as BCCL, CCL, ECL, CMPDIL, CIMFR, IIT (ISM), TATA STEEL Ltd., SAIL, NML etc. The department is privileged to take the benefit of the presence of such big and illustrious organizations through regular interaction of industries experts with students as well as faculties.

The department has Laboratories with state-of-the-art facilities namely, viz. Rock Mechanics, Mine Ventilation, Mine Environmental Engineering, Mine Systems, Mining Machinery, Mine Surveying as well as Mine Geology. Efforts are continuously being made for improvements in each and every aspects of curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular activities to maintain its position among the top league in the country.

Mr. Sudhakar Kumar Ravi
HOD, Mining Department
Pemiya Rishikesh Institute of Technology

Facilities

Lab facilities:

The Department of Mining Engineering has well equipped laboratories with sufficient numbers of conventional as well as modern instruments.

Laboratories:

Mine Environment:

From Methanometer to TDS, Bomb Calorimeter, High Volume Sampler Mine Environment Laboratory has many prevalent instruments in the Department.

Mine Surveying:

Mine Surveying laboratory is up-to-date with Theodolites, Total Station, Auto Level, GNSS and all essential accessories and equipment.

Mine Ventilation:

Mine Ventilation laboratory has Dry & Wet bulb hygrometer, different Flame Safety Lamps, G. L. Apparatus, Gas Chamber and many other essential accessories, equipment and instruments.

Mining Machinery:

Mining Machinery lab consists of different safety devices including Tulu pump, Chain Pulley block and transformer.

Rock Mechanics:

Rock Mechanics has one of the well-established laboratories with different rock and soil testing machines and tools. At present, the laboratory is having Compression testing machine, Core cutting machine, Crushing strength apparatus, Direct Shear apparatus and many others with all the essential accessories.

System Laboratory:

System Laboratory also serves the purpose for Computer Application in Mining and Mine Planning & Design. System laboratory has various Mining Software: Flac 3D, Earthworks, Auto-Cad, M.S. Project, SURPAC and Visual FEA.

Engineering Department Faculties

Our highly qualified teachers are:

MR.UMESH KUMAR SAW
Designation: H.O.D.
Academic Qualification: B.TECH
Work Experience: 4
Email ID: hodminingprit@gmail.com
Contact No.: 7903525715
Teaching Area: MINING DEPARTMENT