National Seminar on Environmental Engineering with special emphasis
on
MINING ENVIRONMENT (NSEEME-2004)

Organised Jointly by
Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad and Institution of Public Health Engineers, India

INAUGURATION
19 March, 2004:
10.00 hr to 11.25 hr
TECHNICAL SESSION I:
ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECT OF MINING
19th March 2004:
11.45 hr to 13.00 hr
1.ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF COAL MINING IN INDIA
- K. V. Krishnamurthy
2.ENHANCING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT THROUGH THE INCORPORATION OF CUMULATIVE IMPACTS CONSIDERATIONS
- Pratik Dutta and Sandip Mahatha
3.REHABILITATION AND RESETTLEMENT OF PROJECT AFFECTED PEOPLE (PAPS) IN MINING PROJECTS
- Naresh Chandra Saxena
4.PROBLEMS IN SURFACE MINE LIGHTING AND FACTORS TO BE CONSIDERED IN LIGHTING DESIGN
- Aruna M, N. C. Karmakar and Y. V Rao
5.A CLOSE NEXUS AMONG GREEN LEAVES, HUMAN BODY & ELECTRIC FIELDS VIS-A-VIS AMAZING HEALING POWER OF MEDICINAL HERBS IN SPECIAL REFERENCE TO TULSI LEAVES
- J. N. Singh, Saumitra Singh, B. S. Chouhan, Prashant Bajpayee, R N. Tripathi and G. P. Chhallotra
6.MONITORING OF HERBICIDE (2,4-D) TOXICITY BY USING POLLEN AS INDICATORS - POLLEN OF PHASEOLUS AUREUS ROXB. A CRITICAL REVIEW
- S.A.Salgare

 

TECHNICAL SESSION II:
AIR, NOISE AND VIBRATION
19th March 2004:
14.00 hr- 15.30 hr
1.ASSESSMENT OF AIR QUALITY IN KORBA COALFIELD, CHHATTISGARH
- Gurdeep Singh, Joel Samuel, Sarang Khati, Anurag Tiwari and A.K. Pal
2.DUST GENERATION ON MINE HAUL ROAD DUE TO ROAD-TYRE INTERACTION
- K. Pathak
3.FUGITIVE DUST DISPERSION FOR MINING AREAS
- B. Chakradhar
4.CLASSIFICATION OF AIR POLLUTION DISPERSION MODELS: A CRITICAL REVIEW
- Smriti Srivastava and Indra N. Sinha
5.SOCIETAL COST OF COMMUNITY NOISE
- A K Pal and N C Saxena
6.BLASTING PRACTICES IN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRAGILE AREAS -AN APPROACH
- A. K. Mishra and P.Balamadeswaran
7.MITIGATION OF GREEN HOUSE GAS EMISSIONS THROUGH CARBON DIOXIDE SEQUESTRATION
- S. K. Puri and Gurdeep Singh
8.OCCUPATIONAL NOISE EXPOSURE- A CASE STUDY
- Harsha Vardhan, N.C.Karmakar and Y.V.Rao
9.NOISE IMPACT ASSESSMENT : PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
- Vinod P. Sinha
10.WORKPLACE NOISE STATUS OF KOTAH STONE MINING COMPLEX
- Amit Gorai, H Mitra, S Ghosh, A. Mukhopadhya and A. K. Pal
11.ANALYSES OF HUMAN RESPONSE TO BLAST INDUCED ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS
- A. K. Chakraborty, A. K Raina, A. Haldar, M. Ramulu, P. B Choudhury, P. B. Sahu, C. Bandopadhyay and R. R. Yerpude

 

TECHNICAL SESSION III:
WATER ENVIRONMENT
19th March 2004:
15.45 hr- 17.15 hr
1.STATUS OF WATER QUALITY IN COAL MINING AREAS OF MEGHALAYA, INDIA
- Sumarlin Swer and O. P. Singh
2.IMPACT ON WATER ENVIRONMENT DUE TO THERMAL POWER PLANTS IN JHARKHAND: A CASE STUDY
- Bably Prasad
3.STUDY ON SETTLING BEHAVIOR OF COAL WASHERY EFFLUENT- A CASE STUDY
- S. K. Maiti, N. C. Karmakar and Poonam Sharma
4.STUDIES ON ARSENIC CONTAMINATION IN THE GROUND WATER OF WEST BENGAL REGION
- D. D. Pathak and Sumit Mishra
5.LONG-TERM LEACHING STUDY OF COAL COMBUSTION RESIDUES FROM TISCO FLUIDISED BED COMBUSTION PLANT AT JAMADOBA
- Ritesh Kumar and Gurdeep Singh
6.MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL MODELLING AND INDEXING OF GROUNDWATER QUALITY IN AND AROUND JHARIA COALFIELD, JHARKHAND
- Bashab N. Mahanta, Kalyan Saikia, P. R. Paul, B. C. Sarkar and Gurdeep Singh
7.TREATMENT OF DOMESTIC WASTEWATER USING NATURAL SYSTEMS: THE INDIAN CONTEXT
- Manoj K. M. Chaturvedi, Shyamsunder D. Langote and Shyam R. Asolekar
8.TREATMENT OF MINE EFFLUENTS CONTAMINATED WITH METALS USING ENVIRONMENTALY FRIENDLY ADSORPTION TECHNIQUE
- A.K. Singh, S. Singh and S. H. Hasan
9.LOW COST UNDERGROUND DRINKING WATER SUPPLY AT KTK 1 INCLINE, BHUPALPALLI, S.C.CO. LTD.
- K. Bapu and Sri. Sujoy Mazumdar
10.ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF THE OIL SPILLAGE INTO DAMODAR RIVER, INDIA
- R.K.Tiwary
11.AUGMENTATION OF UNDERGROUND PUMPED OUT WATER FOR POTABLE PURPOSE FROM COAL MINES OF JHARIA COALFIELD, EASTERN INDIA
- Gurdeep Singh

 

TECHNICAL SESSION IV:
LAND ENVIRONMENT 1
20th March 2004:
9.00 hr- 10.30 hr
1.APPROPRIATE STRATEGIES FOR RECLAMATION AND REVEGETATION OF COAL MINE SPOIL DUMPS
- Asha A. Juwarkar, Hemlata P. Jambulkar and Sanjeev Kumar Singh
2.ECOSYSTEM APPROACH FOR REHABILITATION OF COAL MINE AREAS
- S. Nath
3.WASTE DUMP DESIGN - SOME ASPECTS
- Phalguni Sen
4.REHABILITATION AND REVEGETATION STRATEGIES FOR MINE CLOSURE
- Mrinal K. Ghose and Sampurna Nand
5.SOME ASPECTS OF MINE CLOSURE PLANNING
- P.Balamadeswaran and V.M.S.R. Murthy
6.MANAGEMENT OF POST MINING LAND AND ISO 14000 FOR INDIAN MINES
- A. K. Agarwal and Shashi Shanker
7.MICRONUTRIENT MOBILITY AND HEAVY METAL UPTAKE IN PLANTS GROWING ON ACIDIC COALMINE DUMPS
- Subodh K Maiti, Indra N Sinha, S. Nandhini, Kheya De and Debalina Das

 

TECHNICAL SESSION V:
LAND ENVIRONMENT 2
20th March 2004:
10.45 hr- 12.15 hr
1.RECLAMATION & REVEGETATION
- Bijesh Kumar Jha.
2.VETIVER GRASS TECHNOLOGY: AN ECONOMICAL BIO-RECLAMATION APPROACH FOR COAL OVERBURDEN DUMPS
- Nikhil Kumar, Birendra Kumar, M.Sundararajan and Asha Gupta
3.POST-MINING LAND-USE PLANNING - KEY TO SUCCESSFUL MINE CLOSURE
- E.V.R.Raju and A.K.Pal
4.ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION OF INDIA VIS-A-VIS MINING INDUSTRY - SOME PARADOXES
- M. P. Das
5.INPUT CONDITIONS FOR OPEN CAST CONCURRENT BACKFILLING AND POST MINING LANDUSE DECISIONS
- Manas K Mukhopadhyay and Indra N Sinha
6.BARRIERS TO REFORESTATION OF MINE DERELICT LANDS IN BONAI-KEONJHAR IRON ORE BELT, ORISSA (INDIA)
- B.N.Mohanty, S.N.Patnaik and B.P. Choudhury
7.CHARACTERISATION OF FLYASH FROM FARAKKA SUPER THERMAL POWER STATION
- Ruma Rano and A. Sarkar
VELEDICTORY SESSION

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