IIT (ISM) professor helps BCCL in restoring mine wasteland

Huge chunks of mine wasteland lying idle in collieries will be a thing of the past as a beginning has been made to turn these wastelands fertile by growing a wide variety of plants on them.

All this, as a team of the Department of Environmental Science Engineering of IIT (ISM) led by Professor Subodh Kumar Maiti, has helped Dhanbad-based coal major Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) reclaim around 6 hectares of mine wasteland at Chandan Open Cast Project in East Jharia area of Dhanbad.

Maiti who carried out the eco-restoration of mine wasteland for BCCL in assistance with a Senior Research Fellow (SRF) of his department Sneha Kumari as part of BCCL funded project which began in 2020