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(a) The owner, agent and manager of every mine shall prepare, formulate and implement a Strata Control and Monitoring Plan (SCAMP) based on scientific study considering the geotechnical data, information and the method of development and extraction of coal or the excavation required therefrom, which also includes a support plan to secure the roof and sides of belowground workplaces, and shall be subject to revision with change in condition, for all workings belowground.
(b) The owner, agent and manager shall submit a copy of the Strata Control and Monitoring Plan (SCAMP) to the Regional Inspector who may, at any time by an order in writing, require such modification as he may specify therein.
2. The owner, agent and manager of every mine having workings below ground shall, before commencing any operation, frame, in consonance with the Strata Control and Monitoring Plan framed under sub-regulation (1) and with due regard to the engineering classification of strata, local geological conditions, system of work, mechanization, and past experience, and enforce the support plan specifying in relation to each working place the type and specifications of supports and their intervals:
Provided that in respect of a mine where development operations are already in progress, the support plan shall be framed and enforced within thirty days of the date of coming into force of these regulations.
3. The manager shall, at least thirty days before the commencement of any operation, submit a copy of the support plan framed under sub-regulation (2) to the Regional Inspector who may at any time, by an order in writing, require such modification in the plan as he may specify therein.
4. The Manager shall hand over copies of the support plan framed under sub-regulation (1) and (2), in English as well as in a local language understood by majority of the persons employed in the mine, together with illustrative sketches, to all supervisory officials concerned including the assistant manager and shall also post such copies at all conspicuous places in the mine.
5. The manager and such supervising officials shall be responsible for securing effective compliance with the provisions of the support plan framed under sub-regulation (1) and (2), and no mine or part of a mine shall be worked in contravention thereof.
6. The support plan shall include inter alia, system of, monitoring of the support performance, measurement of strata behavior, re-setting of supports, provision of temporary support, replacement of old supports, withdrawal of supports and clearing of falls of ground.
7. The support plan shall also include the implementation strategy of the plan, training and inspection and supervision policies.
8. The owner, agent or manager shall formulate and implement a code of standing orders specifying –
(a) the system and the organization for procurement and supply of supports of suitable material, of adequate strength and in sufficient quantity where these are required to be readily available for use;
(b) the method of handling including dismantling and assembling where necessary and transportation of the supports from the surface to the face and from the face line to their new site;
(c) the system and the organization for maintenance and checking of supports, dressing the roof and sides, erecting, examining and re-tightening of supports and re-erecting dislodged supports, including the use of appropriate tools;
(d) the panel of competent persons for engagement as substitutes in the event of a regular supports man or dresser absenting from duty; and
(e) the manner of making all concerned persons such as loaders, dressers, supports men, shotfirers, sirdars, overmen and assistant managers including persons empanelled for engagement as substitute supports man or dresser fully conversant with the support plan and the codes of standing orders under this sub-regulation and under regulation 129 and the nature of work to be performed by each in that behalf.
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