NIRM celebrates 75 Years of Indian Independence (Aazadi ka Amrut Mahotsav) - Series of Technical Lectures on every Friday. Details given below:

ABOUT NIRM

The National Institute of Rock Mechanics (NIRM), is an autonomous Research Institute under Ministry of Mines, Government of India. Set up in 1988 under Societies Act, 1860, NIRM has its Head Office (HO) at Bengaluru and Registered Office (RO) at Kolar Gold Fields in Karnataka.

The Institute deals with field and laboratory investigations, basic and applied research, and solving complex problems in almost entire spectrum of Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering related to Mining and Civil Engineering activities.

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Vidhi Sahitya Prakashan - Law Journals for Download

On the occassion of celebrations of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav Vidhi Sahitya Prakashan has decided to make available to the public, all three law journals in Hindi on its portal (https://legislative.gov.in/vidhi-sahitya) in pdf format only,free of cost for a period of 75 weeks till completion of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav cleebration.

i) Vidhi Sahitya Prakashan Link: Vidhi Sahitya Prakashan

Culture Ministry launches a unique programme to celebrate Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav on Independence Day this year

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NIRM Commemorates "AAZADI KA AMRUT MAHAOTSAV"

As a part of commemoration of 75 years of Indian Independence, (Aazadi ka Amrut Mahotsav) NIRM will be organising a series of Technical lectures starting from 12-March-2021. The schedule of the lectures and their link is given below .

Week Lecture No. Date Title of Lecture Speaker Department & Organisation WebEx Link for Lecture
01 Lecture-01 12-Mar-2021 15:00hrs Engineering Geophysics – GPR as NDE tool Dr.P C Jha, Scientist-F & HOD, Engineering Geophysics Engineering Geophysics, NIRM Completed
02 Lecture-02 19-Mar-2021 15:00hrs Engineering Geophysics – MASW for Compaction Studies Dr.B Butchi Babu, Scientist-E1 Engineering Geophysics, NIRM Completed
03 Lecture-03 26-Mar-2021 15:00hrs Engineering Geophysics - Tomography for defect mapping Dr.P C Jha, Scientist-F & HOD, Engineering Geophysics Engineering Geophysics, NIRM Completed
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 02-Apr-2021 15:00hrs No Lecture Scheduled - Good Friday Holiday - - -
05 Lecture-04 09-Apr-2021 15:00hrs Engineering Geophysics - ERT for supplementary investigation Dr.B Butchi Babu, Scientist-E1 Engineering Geophysics, NIRM Completed
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 16-Apr-2021 15:00hrs Engineering Geophysics – Cross-hole investigations Dr.Sandeep Nelliat, Scientist-E2 Engineering Geophysics Lecture Cancelled as the Speaker turned Covid +ve
07 Lecture-05 23-Apr-2021 15:00hrs Armour Rock Blasting Mr.G Gopinath, Scientist-E1 Rock Blasting and Excavation Engineering, NIRM Completed
08 Lecture-06 30-Apr-2021 15:00hrs Urban Blasting Mr.G C Naveen, Scientist-E1 Rock Blasting and Excavation Engineering, NIRM Completed
09 Lecture-07 07-May-2021 15:00hrs Stability monitoring of gravity dams - Significance of Instrumentation Mrs. Praveena Das Jennifer, Scientist-E1 Numerical Modelling, NIRM Completed
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 14-May-2021 15:00hrs Instrumentation in Blasting Mr. G Gopinath, Scientist-E1 Rock Blasting and Excavation Engineering, NIRM Cancelled on Account of Holiday - Id Ul Fitr
11 Lecture-08 21-May-2021 15:00hrs Instrumentation in Blasting Mr.G Gopinath, Scientist-E1 Rock Blasting and Excavation Engineering, NIRM Completed
12 Lecture-09 28-May-2021 15:00hrs Alternative to Blasting Mr.G C Naveen, Scientist-E1 Rock Blasting and Excavation Engineering, NIRM Completed
13 Lecture-10 04-June-2021 15:00hrs Underground Damage Assessment Mr.R Balachander, Scientist-C Rock Blasting and Excavation Engineering, NIRM Completed
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11-June-2021 15:00hrs Crisis Management and SMP Through Digitalization
Mr. Deepak Vidyarthi, Executive Director, NMDC (Retd.) Postponed
15 Lecture-11 18-June-2021 15:00hrs Real time structural health monitoring of Tunnel Dr.Ajay Kumar Jha President, BioID GmbH, Germany Completed
16 Lecture-12 25-June-2021 15:00hrs Execution & Commissioning of 720 MW Mangdechhu Hydro Power Plant in Bhutan Mr.A K Mishra Managing Director, Mangdechhu Hydroelectric Project Authority, Bhutan Completed
17 Lecture-13 02-July-2021 15:00hrs Seismic Tomography and Crosshole Test as tools in Engineering Geophysics Dr.Sandeep Nelliat, Scientist-E2 Engierring Geophysics, NIRM Completed
18 Lecture-14 09-July-2021 15:00hrs Geological and Geotechnical intricacies in Koteshwar Hydropower Project Mr.H L Arora Former Director(Technical), THDC India Ltd. Completed
19 Lecture-15 16-July-2021 15:00hrs Rock mass Classification of tropically weathered rocks Dr. Ramesh Bhatawdekar Director, Innovative Consultancy Research Pte. Ltd. Singapore Completed
20 Lecture-16 23-July-2021 15:00hrs How friction starts during Earthquake Dr. G L Manjunath Visiting Faculty, Energy Institute,Center of Rajiv Institute of Petroleum Technology Bengaluru Completed
21 Lecture-17 30-July-2021 16:30hrs Use and Application of Wipfrag4 – A Blast Fragmentation Analysis Software Mr. Thomas Palangio Chief Technical Officer at WipWare Inc. Completed
22 Lecture-18 06-August-2021 15:00hrs Crisis Management and SMP Through Digitalization Mr.Deepak Vidyarthi Former Executive Director, NMDC Completed
23 Lecture-19 13-August-2021 15:00hrs Ahead of its time: Uri Hydroelectric Project Stage-1 (480MW) Mr.Imarn Sayeed Former CGM Geotech, NHPC Ltd. Completed
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 20-August-2021 No Lecture Scheduled - Muharram Holiday
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 27-August-2021
Lecture cancelled due to simultaneous official engagements
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to be scheduled next week
26 Lecture-20 03-September-2021 15:00hrs Cyber security Threats in Mining Industries Dr Padmavathi Ganapathi Professor, Department of Computer Science, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore Completed
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 10-September-2021 No Lecture Scheduled - Ganesh Chaturthi Holiday
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28 Lecture-21 17-September-2021 15:00hrs Slope stability analysis and design by using numerical modelling tools Mr.BH Vijay Sekar Senior Scientist, NIRM Completed
29 Lecture-22 High precision tunnelling using automation in drilling Mr. Ankur Agarwal Underground Product & Sales Support Lead – India, Epiroc Mining India Ltd. Webex Link





Download Ministry of Mines GOI, Advisory for COVID-2020 from the link: COVID-2020

Shri Pralhad Joshi, Honorable Union Minister for Coal, Mines and Parliamentary Affairs,tweets about NIRM

Shri Pralhad Joshi, Honorable Union Minister for Coal, Mines and Parliamentary Affairs tweets about NIRM on 15th December 2020 and also commented on his facebook page.


Facebook Link : Shri Pralhad Joshi about NIRM

SATYABHMA Portal Ministry of Mines, GOI 2020

Shri Pralhad Joshi, Honorable Union Minister for Coal, Mines and Parliamentary Affairs launched SATYABHAMA (Science and Technology Yojana for Aatmanirbhar Bharat in Mining Advancement) Portal for Science and Technology Programme Scheme of Ministry of Mines on 15th June 2020. The portal has been designed, developed and implemented by National Informatics Centre (NIC), Mines Informatics Division. Shri Sushil Kumar, Secretary, Ministry of Mines and other senior officials of the Ministry were also present.:
i) NEWS: News
ii)Link to SATYABHAMA Portal: SATYABHAMA Portal

Dr. H.S. Venkatesh, Director, NIRM

Head Office

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National Institute of Rock Mechanics
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Activities & Initiatives

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