As per information made available by the Ministry of Labour & Employment, provisions have been made in the Mines Act, 1952 and rules and regulations framed thereunder for ensuring the safety of the persons employed in mines. The Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) are prepared and implemented by respective Mine operators/ Management.

The details of training programs and safety awareness programs conducted by DGMS from the year 2018 to 2020 are given below:

	S. No. Name of the Zone of DGMS	Number of training programs conducted for mine workers	Number of Awareness programs conducted for mine workers
1	South Central Zone, Hyderabad	08	95
2	Western Zone, Nagpur	15	11
3	Southern Zone, Bengaluru	20	75
4	Northern Zone, Ghaziabad	05	21
5	Central Zone, Dhanbad	00	05
6	Eastern Zone, Sitarampur	03	22
7	South Eastern Zone, Ranchi	10	14
8	North Western Zone, Udaipur	03	20

This information was given by the Union Minister of Coal, Mines and Parliamentary Affairs Shri Pralhad Joshi in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.

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