National Seminar on Explosives, Blasting Techniques for Mining, Quarrying’ at NITK on Sept 26,27

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, Sep 24, 2013: The Department of  Mining Engineering will be  holding a two-day national seminar on ‘Explosives and Blasting Techniques for Mining, Quarrying and Infrastructure Industry’  at the Seminar Hall of National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK) on September 26 and 27.

Informing this to reporters, Prof. VR Sastry, the Conference Chairman said the seminar aims at holding discussions on new ideas in the development of explosives and blasting techniques.

Gopal Singh, Chairman and Managing Director of Central Coalfields Limited  and AK Debnath, Chairman and Managing Director of Central Mine Planning and Design Institute Limited  will be the chief guests. NK Nanda, Technical Director of NMDC Limited and Ramesh Kumar, Operations Director of The Singareni Collieries Co Ltd  will also be present. Prof. Swapan Bhattacharya,  Director of NITK-Suratkal will preside over the function.

The valedictory function will be attended by  YS Reddy, Senior Vice President of Fomento Resources Pvt Ltd.

Experts in the field  of mining and quarrying will make 32 presentations during the two day seminar.