Peer Review Committee

All the research activities of the Institute are reviewed and guided by the eminent technical persons from Industry, R&D and Academic fields. They constitute the Peer Review Committee (PRC) of the Institute. They review the R&D activities with the objective of making the Institute a self-sustaining center of excellence. The mandate of the PRC is as under :

Review the activities of various of the Institute (Project wise).
Suggest up-gradation of facilities, required if any.
Identify new areas of development/research.
Review and recommend R&D project proposals for SSAG, Ministry of Mines.
Review and recommend the purchase of capital equipments.

The tenure of PRC is for a period of three years. Present constitution of the PRC is from January 2017 to December 2019. The committee members are a as under :

Prof. BB Dhar, Ex Dir (CIMFR) - Chairman
Sri. A Sundaramoorthy, Ex-DG(retd), GSI Alternate Chairman
Deputy Director General (DGMS), Southern Zone, Member
Prof. VMSR Murty, ISM (IIT), Dhanbad – Member
Prof. N.R.Thote, VNIT, Nagpur – Member
Mr. TK Sivarajan, Chief Engineer Central Water Commission, Member