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 equipment.

The tenure of PRC is for a period of three years. Present constitution of the PRC is from January 2023 to December 2025. The committee members are a as under :

Sri. A. Sundaramoorthy, Ex-DG(retd), GSI, Chairman (Alt)
Deputy Director General (DGMS), Southern Zone, Member
General Manager (R&D), SCCL, Kothagudem
Prof. VMSR Murty, ISM (IIT), Dhanbad – Member
Prof. N.R.Thote, VNIT, Nagpur – Member
Prof. Suprkash Gupta, IIT, BHUChief Engineer (Design), CWC
Dr JK Pandey, Chief Scientist, CIMFR, Dhanbad,
Director, NIRM
Secretary, PRC, NIRM