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Jharia coalfield in Dhanbad district of Jharkhand state occupies an important place not only in the coal mining history of the country but also the globe due to typical features of the coal deposits. In the country this coalfield is the only source of prime coking coal and the coalfield has been serving the nation for about 110 years. Coal mining in the coalfield was stated in 1893-94. The coalfield belonging to Gondwana period has a unique feature that in a strata thickness of about 600 m there are over 40 workable coal horizons making the percentage of coal about 12. The total proved reserves of the coalfield are about 11.4 billion tonne out of which about 20-25% have been exploited so far and the remaining reserves are still available. The last 100 years of mining has made gross changes in the demography and land use of the coalfield as a result of which the coalfield today is having about one-third of the land area under settlements/ colonies/villages, which is probably the highest density anywhere in the world. Originally a tribal area has now become a cosmopolitan conglomerate with people from all the parts of the country residing the coalfield and the surrounding areas. Mining activities in the last 110 years have caused a large number of problems related to mine fires and subsidence as a result of which and due to the presence of a large number of surface properties it is not possible to design the mining activities in the coalfield for effective exploitation of the available reserves. It is being opined in the mining sector that if suitable actions are not taken immediately the coalfield will be deserted in about 25-30 years of time and vast national coal reserves available will be lost for ever.

1. Future mining strategy for Bharat Coking Coal Ltd. B N Pan

2. Reinventing Jharia Coalfield, Role of Indian School of Mines B B Bhattacharya

3. Present social environment and future prospects for Jaria Coalfield N C Saxena

4. Jharia Coalfield : Revival and long term sustainability R S Singh

5.Blasting over developed coal pillars A K Mishra, P Balamadeswaran and Manish Sinha

6. Blasting operations in Fire affected areas R V Erady and P R Prasad

7. Note on BCCl S M Koley

8. Status of mine fire of Jharia Coalfield and suggestions for prevention and control R V K Singh and V K Singh

9. Mine fire problem in Jharia Coalfield A scientific approach for its diagnosis and control - N Sahay, N K Varma, I Ahmad, S K Ray, V K Singh and D D Misra

10. Mine fires Need for technical audit K K Malhotra and Gurdeep Singh

11. Tools for ventilation of fire affected mines N Sahay, N K Varma, I Ahmad, R P Singh and D D Misra

12. Subsidence management in Jharia Coalfield Bijay Kumar and N C Saxena

13. Pattern of extraction and long-term stability analysis of left-out pillars for subsidence control with the help of numerical modelling S K Singh, A Kushwaha, R Singh, John Loui P and R Bhattacharjee

14. Natural Cokes (Jhama) of Jharia Coalfield A critical appraisal for industrial use A K Singh, K Sen, N Chaudhury and S K Hazra

15. Search for appropriate strategies on coking coal utilization A pressing need for sustainable development of Jharia Coalfield K Sen, N S Das, A K Singh and R Dasgupta

16. Augmentation of underground pumped out water for potable purpose from coal mines of Jharia Coalfield Gurdeep Singh

17. Reinventing Jharia Coalfield Suggested action plan for attitudinal change to achieve the desired results K C Vijh

18. Environment management and sustainable development in Jharia Coalfield Some vital issues B K Samanta and A B Samaddar

19. Eco-restoration of over burden dumps through the plantation of high photosynthetic/soil binder species N K Srivastava, L C Ram, R C Tripathi, S K Jha, A K Sinha, G Singh and P S M Tripathi

20. Technical solution vis-a-vis human and social problems prevailing in Jharia Coalfield M K Thapar

21. Environmental management in Jharia Coalfield An overview during the last two decades B K Sharma and E V R Raju

22. Post-mining land-use planning strategies for Jharia Coalfield A GIS approach E V R Raju and Rekha Ghosh

23. Coal bed methane recovery A helping hand for BCCL N N Gautam

24. Prospects of coalfield methane exploitation in the Jharia Coalfield A K Singh and N N Gautam