DGMS Circulars - 2016

1. Permission under Rule 37 and Rule 11(4) of Mines Rescue Rules, 1985 to
maintain breathing apparatus of different type and make in rescue stations
and rescue rooms
2. Periodic testing of breathing apparatus, reviving apparatus etc. maintained at
rescue stations and rescue rooms
3. Safety features to be incorporated and maintained in crawler/tyre mounted
machineries deployed in mines
4. Cylinders to be used in breathing apparatus used in mines
5. Integrated approach for development of Safety Management Plan for coal
and metalliferous mines
Technical
6. Standards of illumination in opencast coal mines
7. Standards of illumination in underground coal mines
8. Emergency Management Plan for Indian coal and metal mines
9. Online maintenance of registers/records mandated by the Mines Act 1952
and allied legislation by mines.
10. Standards of illumination in opencast metal mines
11. Standards of illumination in underground metal mines
12. Treatment of coal dust with incombustible dust in the workings of
belowground coal mines and sampling thereof