Collieries in the Pandaveswar Area of Eastern Coalfields UG: Underground Colliery, OC: Open Cast Colliery, S: Mining support, A: Administrative headquarters Owing to space constraints in the small map, the actual locations in a larger map may vary slightly
5km 3miles
Damodar River
Ajay River
Madhaipur
R
Shyamsundarpur
R
Tilaboni
R
Pandabeswar
R
Laudoha
R
Durgapur
MC
ECL Sonpur Bazari Area Office
ECL Jhanjhra Area Office
ECL Bankola Area Office
ECL Pandaveswar Area Office
ECL Kenda Area Office
Parashkol
CT
Chak Bankola
CT
Bilpahari
CT
Ramnagar
CT
Dalurband
CT
Baidyanathpur
CT
Mahal
CT
Konardihi
CT
Nabgram
CT
Sankarpur
CT
Haripur
CT
Chhora
CT
Bahula
CT
Mandarbani
CT
Banagram
CT
Sirsha
CT
Nabaghanapur
CT
Sarpi
CT
Ichhapur
CT
Kendra Khottamdi
CT
Cities, towns and ECL Areas in the northern portion of Durgapur subdivision in Paschim Bardhaman district MC: Municipal Corporation, CT: census town, R: rural/urban administrative centre Owing to space constraints in the small map, the actual locations in a larger map may vary slightly
The map alongside shows some of the collieries in the Pandaveswar Area. As the collieries do not have individual pages, there are no links in the full screen map. However, all places in the map of the northern portion of Durgapur subdivision, placed below, are linked in the full screen map.
Coal
As per the Shodhganga website, collieries in the Pandaveswar Area are: Madaipur, Mandarbani, Nutandanga, Pandaveswar, Dalurbandh, Kendra, Samla, South Samla, Khottadih, Kankartala, Dalurbandh OCP, Palasthali OCP and Gangaramchak OCP.[3]
As per ECL website telephone numbers, operational collieries in the Pandaveswar Area in 2018 are: Dalurband Colliery, Khottadih OCP, Khottadih UG, Madhaipur Colliery, Manderbony Colliery, Pandaveswar Colliery and South Samla Colliery.[4]
Mining plan
An overview of the proposed mining activity plan in Cluster No. 12, consisting of 15 reconstituted mines covering Pandaveswar Area, Sonpur Bazari, Jhanjra and Bankola Area as of 2016, is as follows:[5]
1. Pandaveswar & Dalurband underground mine and open cast project, combining Pandaveswar UG mine, Pandaveswar OC project and Dalurband UG mine & OC project, has annual production capacity of 1.47 million tonnes for UG and 2.00 mt for OC.
2. Manderboni UG mine has annual production capacity of 0.17 mt.
3. Madhaipur UG mine & OC patch has annual production capacity of 0.21 mt for UG mine and 0.57 mt for OC patch.
4. Nutandanga UG mine has annual production capacity of 0.12 mt.
5. Kendra UG mine has annual production capacity of 0.10 mt.
6. Samla UG mine has annual production capacity of 0.12 mt.
7. Sonpur Bazari OC project has annual production capacity of 12.00 mt.
8. South Samla UG mine has annual production capacity of 0.11 mt.
9. Nakrakonda and Kumardihi B UG mine & OC project, formed with the amalgamation of Nakrakonda UG mine, Nakrakonda B OC project, Nakrakonda B OC project (extension), Kumardihi B UG mine, Kumardihi B OC patch and Purushattompur OC patch, has annual production capacity of 1.12 mt for UG mine and 3.00 mt for OC project.
10. Kumardihi A UG mine has annual capacity of 0.20 mt. Kumardihi A OC patch is exhausted and being backfilled.
11. Jhanjra UG mine has annual production capacity of 5.00 mt.
12. Tilaboni UG mine has annual production capacity of 2.14 mt.
13. Shyamsundarpur UG mine has annual production capacity of 1.12 mt.
14. Bankola UG mine has annual production capacity of 0.30 mt. Bankola OC patch is exhausted and being backfilled.
15. Khottadih UG mine and OC project has annual production capacity of 0.90 mt for UG mine and 2.20 mt for OC project.
Note: Mandermoni Extension/ Rangamati A UGP and Madhaipur Extension/ Rangamati B UGP are not viable in the present time.
Subsidence
Traditionally many underground collieries have left a void after taking out the coal. As a result, almost all areas are facing subsidence. As per CMPDIL, there were 6 points of subsidence in the Pandaveswar Area involving 49.62 hectares of land.[6]
Migrants
Prior to the advent of coal mining, the entire region was a low-productive rice crop area in what was once a part of the Jungle Mahals. The ownership of land had passed on from local adivasis to agricultural castes before mining started. However, the Santhals and the Bauris, referred to by the colonial administrators as "traditional coal cutters of Raniganj" remained attached to their lost land and left the mines for agricultural related work, which also was more remunerative. It forced the mine-owners to bring in outside labour, mostly from Bihar, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh. In time the migrants dominated the mining and industrial scenario. The pauperization and alienation of the adivasis have been major points of social concern.[7][8]
