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SCCL UNDER MANAGER INTERNAL EXAM SYLLABUS

SCCL-SYLLABUS FOR THE POST OF UNDER MANAGER E-2 GRADE (INTERNAL)

Mine Management,Legislation andGeneral Safety.

The Mines Act, 1952; Mines Rules 1955, Mines Rescue
Rules, 1985, Mine Vocational Training Rules, 1966, Coal
Mine Regulation, 2017 and other rules and legislation as
applicable to coal mines.

Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering

Provisions of Central Electricity Authority (Measures relating
to Safety and Electric Supply) Regulations, 2023 applicable
to mines.

Winning and Working of coal.

Opening of coal seams, Methods of boring, boring through disturbed strata; bore hole survey; interpretation of
geological maps. Methods of shaft sinking: mechanized sinking, inordinary and water logged grounds and other special
methods; shaft supports, temporary and permanent, mechanised stonedrifting etc.
Underground Mining Methods: Choice of methods of mining coal seams and factors (depth, seam thickness,
inclination,etc.) affecting the same; statutory provisions. Board and pillar method: statutory provisions,
mechanized loaders, continuous miners etc., depillaring and applicable statutory provision; pillar extraction with
caving and stowing; mechanization in depillaring; local fall and main fall; indications of roof weighting; air blasts and
Precautions against the same; Multi-section And Continuous working; Liquidation of developed pillars.
Longwall mining: longwall face-advancing and retreating faces; support system for longwall gate roads; powered
support; face transfer, operation of shearer and plough; Thick seam mining: Board and pillar and longwall
methods in multi-section; multi-slice methods; inclined slicing; horizontal slicing and cross slicing in ascending and
descending orders; under-winning methods; sublevel caving; and descending shield methods; hydraulic mining;
special methods of thick seam mining.Other special methods of mining: Wide stall method;
method of mining thin seams; underground coal gasification, coal bed methane/ coal mine methane etc.

Mine Ventilation, Mine Fires,Explosions,Inundations,Rescue andRecovery.

Maintenance systems, Mechanical ventilation, fans in series
and parallel, reversal of air flow; fan drift, diffuser and
evasee; booster and auxiliary fans; standards of ventilation;
ventilation calculation.

Rock Mechanics and Ground control.

Pressure arc theory, subsidence, types of roof, testing of
roof, supporting materials, Types of support, mechanised
support, Roof bolting, cable bolting, RMR.

Mining Machinery,Fundamentals of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering,

Material handling equipment in mines: Types, construction
and operation; Safety devices; maintenance and
calculations for rope haulages; locomotives, conveyors,
systems, rope-ways, communication equipment, man riding
systems; in-pit crushers, feeder breaker etc., use of diesel
equipments in underground coal mines, free steered
vehicles.
Pumps: Types, Characteristics, motor power, capacity,
laying of water mains, dealing with acid water; slurry,
drainage; lodgements, storage, designs and layout of dams,
sumps, pumping problems.
Function and operation of blast hole drills, rippers, scrapers,
shovels; draglines, dumpers, road graders, dozers, wheel
loaders; Bucket Wheel Excavators; spreaders; surface
continuous miners, rock breakers and their maintenance
aspects, water-trucks, In-pit crushing conveying (IPCC)
Generation, transmission and utilization of Power,
Steam and compressed air: Air compressor and auxiliary
equipment; air turbines and air engines; efficiency of power,
steam system; safety aspects.

Fundamentals of Mining Geology.

Nature and occurrence of coal seams; description of Indian
coalfields; features of coalfields; Mohr’s scale of hardness

Fundamentals of Mine surveying.

Dip and strike problems: outcrop problems; borehole
surveying and calculations. Types of plans and their
preparation, care, storage and preservation: legislation
concerning mine plans and sections; duties and
responsibilities of surveyors. Application of computers in
mine surveying and preparation of plans.

PART-II (General Studies)
1. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
2. GENERAL ENGLISH
3. QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE & NUMERICAL ABILITY
4. TEST OF REASONING
5. COMPUTER BASICS