Issued by India

Issued on Jan 7, 2002

Issued for : The Department of Posts is happy to issue a postage stamp to commemorate the centenary of the Directorate General of Mines Safety.

Credits :
Stamp & FDC : Kamleshwar Singh
Cancellation : Alka Sharma

Type : First Day Cover

Colour : Four Colour

Denomination : 400 Paise

Overall size : 2.90 x 3.91 cms.

Printing size : 2.50 x 3.55 cms.

Perforation : 13.5 x 13.5 mm with elliptical hole on each 3.91 mm sides

Paper : Matt Chromo

Stamps Printed : 0.8 million

Number per issue sheet : 40

Printing Process : Photo Offset

Printer : Madras Security Printers Ltd.

About :

• The Directorate General of Mines Safety (DGMS), Dhanbad, a subordinate office of the Union Ministry of Labour is entrusted with the responsibility of ensuring safety, welfare and health of workers employed in mines.
• Mining has provided vital inputs for the tremendous technological and economic development achieved by humanity in modern times. The procedures involved in the actual extraction of minerals from the depth of the earth, however, continue to be tedious and hazardous, despite the concerned technologies having been refined many times over with the passage of time. Innumerable dangers loom large at every corner of the process and mining has rightly been deemed to be a war with the unpredictable forces of nature.
• The DGMS, originally called Bureau of Mines Inspection, was set up in 1902 with its headquarters at Calcutta. The headquarters was shifted to Dhanbad in 1908 and the organisation re-designated with its present name in 1967.
• At the headquarters of the DGMS, the Director General is assisted by staff officers who have specialisation in different disciplines like mining, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, occupational health, law, survey statistics, administration and accounts. The field formations of the organisation have been grouped into six geographical zones and each zone, further divided into three or four regions/sub-regions. The country has about 600 coal mines, 6000 non-coal mines and 32 oil mines. Together they employ hundreds of thousands of workers. The total staff who deal with safety and health aspects in the different mines or the country number about 1100. In its hundred years of existence, the organisation has been closely associated with the policies and planning, research & development, education and other allied activities connected with the mining industry of the country. Keeping pace with the latest developments in mining technology and taking the circumstances of a developing nation into consideration, DGMS has developed skills and resources to achieve targets against many odds.
• The DGMS has been striving to reduce the risk of occupational diseases and casualties to mine workers by drafting appropriate legislation and laying down standards. In order to ensure compliance of these laws and standards, it has initiated a variety of awareness programmes. The vision of the DGMS is to ensure nationally acceptable and internationally comparable standards of health, safety and welfare for employees of Indian mines.
• Text : Based on material furnished by the sponsors.

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Issued by India

Issued on Mar 4, 2001

Issued for : The Department of Posts is happy to issue a postage stamp on the occasion of the 150^th anniversary of the Geological Survey of India.

Design : The stamp design features three ore forming minerals, Bauxite – an aluminium ore, Chalcopyrite – a copper ore and Psilomelane – a manganese ore. Over the years, GSI has carried out exploration for these and several other minerals in the country and has established considerable reserve of these minerals.

The first day cover depicts the integrated surveys in land, air and sea by the G.S.I. The stamp shows mineral ores: Bauxite, Chalcopyrite and Psilomelane, found in significant deposits in India, which is indicative of the contribution of G.S.I. to the basic wealth of the country.

Credits :
Stamp & FDC : The Geological Survey of India
Cancellation : Alka Sharma

Type : Stamp, Mint Condition

Colour : Four Colour

Denomination : 300 Paise

Overall size : 2.90 x 3.91 cms.

Printing Size : 2.54 x 3.55 cms.

Perforation : 13 x 13

Paper : Imported unwatermarked stamp paper

Stamps Printed : 1 million

Number per issue sheet : 40

Printing Process : Photo Offset

Printer : Eagle Press Pvt. Ltd.

About : 

• During its 150 years of earth science activity, GSI has acquired a strong national geoscience database which contributes to meeting the demands of mineral/metal industries, power sector, agriculture and irrigation sector, engineering projects, communication, management of natural hazards and environmental degradation. GSI’s activity also includes the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the seas and oceans surrounding India and the icy continent of Antarctica. Till date, more than 87 per cent of EEZ has been covered by reconnaissance sea bed mapping. GSI has contributed through geotechnical investigation towards the development of ports and harbours and in location of offshore structures.
  
• Through GSI Training Institute, Hyderabad, training is imparted in various fields of geoscientific activity to its own professionals and also to the earth scientists of other sister organisations and of ESCAP and other foreign countries. GSI is also interacting with various countries through bilateral collaborative/exchange programmes.
• The GSI now poised to meet the challenges of the 21^st century by contributing its mite in the country’s search for sustainable development in the drastically changed world economic order, by constantly upgrading its knowledge base and modernising its tools and techniques.
• Text : Based on inputs from the GSI as well as “India – a Reference Annual” (Publications Division, Govt. of India).

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