Mines Rules

The employee, Chhota Birsa Uranw, joined Bharat Coking Coal Ltd. in 1973 with a date of birth recorded as 15‑Feb‑1947. He later discovered that his school leaving certificate and Mining Sardarship certificate recorded his birth as 6‑Feb‑1950 and sought correction under Implementation Instruction No. 76 in 1987. The emp…

The dispute concerned recruitment to the statutory posts of Welfare Officers under Rule 72 of the Mines Rules. Coal India Ltd. adopted a policy that one‑third of the posts be filled by internal candidates and the remaining two‑thirds by external candidates, with a common written test for all applicants. The company fir…

The Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra filed a writ petition alleging that illegal limestone quarrying in the Mussoorie hills and Dehradun area was causing severe ecological damage. The Supreme Court appointed several committees (Bhargava, Working Group, Valdia Expert Committee, Bandopadhyay) to assess safety, env…

The Union of India appealed a decision of the Orissa High Court that had struck down Clause‑iii of paragraph 7 in Notification No. 514/1994, which defined a person working ‘below ground’ to include open‑cast excavations deeper than six metres. The High Court held that the Ministry of Labour lacked statutory authority u…