BLOCL-II AREA

Historical

Block-II Area came into existence in the year 1983-84 primarily for the production of Coking Coal with the inclusion of the Nudkhurkee OCP, Benedih OCP, Jamunia OCP & the opening of Block-II Project. The Block-II Project was funded by World Bank. The project was envisaged to improve the financial position of BCCL and to meet the growing demand of Coking Coal in the country.

In the year 2002-03 Benedih OCP, Nudkhurkee OCP & Block-II OCP (Coking coal) were amalgamated and Block-II OCP (Non-coking) Project came into existence. In 2003-04 Madhuban Coal Washery also came under the administrative control of Block-II Area.

Location

 Block-II Area is situated about 40 KM west of Dhanbad & its

 Latitude          –                       23º 47’30” to 23º 46’30”

 Longitude       –                       86º 13’30” to 86º 10’30”

The Administrative Office of the General Manager of Block-II Area is situated in the palace of the Erstwhile Maharaja of Nawagarh Estate near the present Dumra Bus stand at a distance of 40 km West from BCCL headquarters, Koyla Bhawan, Dhanbad. All the projects under Block-II Area are situated 3-5 km away from the Area Office.The distances of the Area office from nearby important places are as :-

• 40 km away from Dhanbad Railway station.

• 10 km away from Gomoh Railway station

• 4 km away from local railway station like Phulwartanr and Khanudih (Baghmara).

Public conveyance

The place is well connected by road with Dhanbad, Gomoh, Chandrapura & Phusro. Public transport facility is available to all the above places.

No of Collieries:

                                                      Departmental                   Hired HEMM Patch

BLOCK-II                                        Block-II OCP                      Crusher Patch-II(A) & III

JAMUNIA -OCP                             Jamunia OCP                    Kali Mandir Patch-II

Details of Leasehold area

Total leasehold area is 907 Hectares.

Area affected by Fire & subsidence & its dealing

Total area affected by fire & subsidence:-

Area affected by fire is eastern part of Block-II OCP Mine upto No. X Seam is approximately 14.5 Hectares. Fire patches are under operation to dig out the fiery coal and combustible materials to save the coal from burning and to stop further spread of the fire.

Further in Block-II OCP, CIMFR has been awarded to prepare scheme for dealing of fire near Adra-Gomoh railway line.

Workshop facilities:

Block-II Area has workshop facilities located at: –

1. Block-II OCP Dumper Workshop

2. Jamunia OCP Dumper Workshop

3. Regional Repair Workshop (RRWS)

BLOCK-II OCP DUMPER WORKSHOP

Here the maintenance & repairs of Dumpers, Pay-loaders, Cranes & other workshop equipments are carried out. The works carried out here include washing, greasing, daily maintenance, periodical maintenance & running repairs.

Dumpers at maintenance shed

The facilities available here are:

a) Diesel Dispensing unit ( Fixed unit)

b) Movable diesel dispensing facility (Diesel Bouzer)

c) High pressure washing facility with ramp.

d) Pneumatic grease pumps for greasing

e) Centralized lubrication system

f) Tyre Inflation facility Battery

g) Charging facility

h) Distilled water plant

i) Welding & Gas cutting arrangement

j) Hydraulic jacks & pressure gauges

k) Mobile servicing units (Maintenance Vans)

JAMUNIA OCP DUMPER WORKSHOP

Here like Block-II OCP Dumper workshop, the maintenance & repairs of Dumpers, Pay loaders, Cranes & other workshop equipments are carried out. Even Dozers are maintained at this workshop. The works carried out here include washing, greasing, daily maintenance, periodical maintenance & running repairs. The facilities available here are:

a) Diesel Dispensing unit( Fixed unit)

b) Movable diesel dispensing facility (Diesel Bouzer)

c) High pressure washing facility with ramp.

d) Pneumatic grease pumps for greasing

e) Tyre Inflation facility

f) Battery Charging facility

g) Welding & Gas cutting arrangement

h) Hydraulic jacks & pressure gauges

i) Mobile servicing units(Maintenance Van)

REGIONAL REPAIR WORKSHOP

This is the workshop that caters to the major repair works of both Block-II OCP & Jamunia OCP. The jobs mainly carried out here are as hereunder:

1. Heavy mechanical repairs

2. Reclamation works

3. Manufacturing works involving turning, machining, milling, slotting etc except casting, forging, heat treatment or annealing works.

4. Electrical maintenance repair works of motors, generators like assembling, changing of internal components, minor rewinding, insulation & varnishing works.

5. Assembling & component changing of mine pumps

6. Rehabilitation works of Dozers, Drills & Dumpers

7. Maintenance works of Cranes & Graders

The facilities available at RRWS for the various repair works include:

a) BICCO Lathe machines for handling heavy jobs

b) HMT make lathe machines for handling medium/small jobs

c) HMT make milling machine

d) HMT make radial drills

e) BATLIBOI Make shaper machine

f) ACCUMAX Make standard vertical drill

g) Power hacksaws

h) HMT make surface grinder

i) Overhead Cranes

j) Hydraulic jacks

k) Welding/gas cutting sets

l) Portable grinders, drills

Future planning

One Underground Coal mine of 0.45MTY capacity is going to be started in near future in the Area involving continuous miner technology. One Washery behind the existing Washery is under construction.

Ther are two mines namely BOCP and JOCP, one washery (MCW) and Area Office is currently operating under Block-II Area. Their breakup is listed below

Human Resource Development

For the development of professional and personal skill sets of staffs belonging to each category, various training programs are organized at various institutions within BCCL and CIL. Executives, staffs & workers of different units of Block-II Area are given training

1. Indian Institute of Coal Management (IICM) Ranchi: All the executives undergo various training programs at IICM which is a state of art institution having highly qualified faculties.

2. Excavation and Mechanization Training Institute (EMTI) Dhansar: EMTI provides training to operators for HEMM and underground mine mechanization for critical category like, Dragline Operators, Dumper Operators, Shovel Operators, and Dozer Operators.

3. MTI & SDI, Human Resource Development Department Kalyan Bhawan, Dhanbad: It provides various soft skills development for executives as well as non-executives in various managerial, jobs related and personal traits.

4. Group Vocational Training Centre (GVTC), Barora Area: Contractor workers are given training at GVTC, Barora.

E-initiatives

Block-II area has taken a keen interest in making its working efficient, transparent and green. In this regard several activities have been initiated.

1. 1.      Online executive leave management: Block-II is the first area in BCCL to implement online leave management system.

2. 2.      Correspondence through mail: The area is trying to shift to full electronic correspondence system. Most of the correspondence has been in electronic form only.

3. 3.      E-Tendering: Block-II is also the first area to implement e-tendering process.

4. 4.      Electronic data updation: All the official data are periodically updated in coal net which provides easy access to data and transparency. 

Area Committees

There are several committees in the area which guide and monitor the overall working in their own domain as well as in general.

1. 1.      The Area Consultative Committee (ACC): deals with overall performance evaluation and exploration of areas for improvement for production and other allied activities. It comprises of Area General Manager as its Chairperson and all the Head of Departments alongwith representative of various labour union. The list of union representatives is as follows:

1. 2.      Welfare Committee:

1. 3.      House Allotment Committee:

Calendar of 2015-16 

For smooth functioning of all the department and continuous improvement good IR is a key factor. Periodic meetings are held with Central Trade Unions at unit as well as Area level for suggestions and grievance redressal. The calendar of 2015-16 for these meetings at Area level is:

CSR Jobs

Village health camps with the help of Mobile Medical Van (स्वास्थ्य रथ) & a team of trained medical personnel are organized regularly by Block-II Area covering the 16 villages under its command. These camps are done 06 days in a week excluding Sundays and Holidays. The name of the camps are general diagnostic camp, hypertension detection camp, diabetic camp, bronchitis asthma camp, school health checkup, sr. citizen camp, maternity & child health camp, etc.

Mobile Medical Van (स्वास्थ्य रथ):         252 Days       Beneficiary: 7968 Peoples.

Project Mitwa

This covers the railway sidings & coal dumps. In Project Mitwa health awareness education about hygiene to prevent water and food borne disease like diarrhea, typhoid, jaundice, etc is imparted. Awareness lectures are given for de-addiction of alcohol, smoking, drug abuse. Awareness lectures are also given regarding AIDS. This is followed by distribution of condoms and medicines.

Total health camps done in 2013-14   –             13

CSR clinics (सरोकार)

One hour daily excluding Sundays & Public Holidays is dedicated to CSR Clinics for health advice   given free of cost by doctors at Matigarha&Bhimkanali dispensaries

Wellness Clinic (मुस्कान)

Advice is given two days in a week regarding life style management for patients of hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, alcohol & drug abuse, etc in each dispensary.

ICTC Clinic

Health education awareness lectures regarding AIDS are given twice in a week in each dispensary.

Family planning camp 2013-14 organized at Block-II Area RHB

Beneficiaries 37 LTT cases from Colony & surrounding villages

Baby health checkup and vaccination organized at Block-II Area RHB

Total Beneficiaries – 40.

R&R Status

Nudkharkee&Benedih village Rehabilitated at Bakaspura and BadaPandeydih respectively with all civic amenities and alternate livelihood..At present all efforts are going on to Rehabilitate Kessergarh village to Bhimkanali (part) and BadaPandeydih (part) with all civic amenities and arrangement for alternate livelihood.

Sports & Cultural Activities

Annual Sports is being conducted in joint effort with Barora Area every year & cultural activities like painting & drawing competitions, art & craft competitions being held.

Medical facilities

Two Dispensaries:

1. Matigarha Dispensary

2. Bhimkanali Dispensary

One Mini-dispensaries:

1) MCW Mini Dispensary, MCW

No. of Doctors – 02, Pharmacists – 04, Ambulance – 03. One mobile medical van for CSR village health camp. Primary health care service given in OPD, Secondary health care, Indoor service & PME of patient are being done at Regional Hospital, Baghmara. For referral cases, patients are referred to Central Hospital Dhanbad.

First Aid training, health awareness programme are regularly organized.

Grievance redressal:

Grievance redressalcell  have formed in the Area. The cell has following members:

S.P. SINGH,AM(E&M), A.K MANDAL,APM, BINOD MODI, AM(Civil), R. BHATTACHARJEE,AM(Excvn).

The date & time for redressal of grievances is every Wednesday of month from 5.00 pm to 6.00 pm.

Martyrs Family grievance cell  has also been formed in the Area

S.P. SINGH,AM(E&M), A.K MANDAL,APM, BINOD MODI, AM(Civil), R. BHATTACHARJEE,AM(Excvn).

The date & time for redressal of grievances is every Wednesday of month from 4.00 pm to 5.00 pm.

Residential Buildings:

The present township-wise status of residential buildings (standard as well as non-standard) at Block-II Area is as follows:

All the colonies are more than 25 years old.

Water Supply :

Raw water Source     :     Jamunia River

Raw water is drawn from intake well near Dam on Jamunia River. There is one number water treatment plant of 3.5 MGD capacity. Drinking water from JWTP is supplied to Matigarha Colony, Bhimkanali, Nudkhurkee& Nehru Nagar (Harina Colony) of Block-II Area.

At Dugdha T/S water is drawn from boreholes to ground water tank. From ground tank water is pumped to over head tank and the water is supplied to the colony from overhead tanks.

For D.G Colony & Benedih Colony water is being supplied through boreholes.

Construction of  ChathGhat  at Sarbandh pond at Dumra village. Making  ChathGhat  at dam site at Sector-VII Marigarh. Construction of steps for Goverdhan hill at Matigarh village near Sector-VI & VII. Renovation of community hall at Sector-III Matigarh. Drilling & installation of 6 nos. hand pumps at (a) Bara Pandeydih (b) Hanuman Mandir, Harina (c) RathTand village (d) Dhobi Tola Village (e) LutiPahari village (f) Tracker stand Baghmara. Addition & alteration work of community centre/challa at rehabilitation site, Bakaspura. Development work of community hall at Nudkhurkee village. Drilling & installation of 4 nos. hand pump at (a) NetajiSubhash Bose School, Dumra (b) MatigarhBastee (c) Near DurgaMandirBaghmara (d) Bara Pandeydih Village.

SAFTEY & TRAINING

Safety is a prime concern of the organization so is for Block-II area. The Area has safety committees at Area level as well as at its unit level. The committees comprises of executives as well as union representatives as per statute.

The periodic medical examinations of the employees are conducted to detect any medical complications. It helps in shaping the good health of employees and improving productivity and safety for the organization.

Executives, staffs & workers of different units of Block-II Area are given training at IICM Ranchi, EMTI Dhansar, MTI & SDI Kalyan Bhawan and GVTC at Barora Area. Contractor’s workers are given training at Barora VTC.

Various drives are organized by the safety department to make the working environment safe for everyone.

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