Impact of Miners’ QoL on Productivity: A Strategic Study for Optimizing Coal Mining Operation Through Sustainable Human Resource Management
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Research Scholar and Mr. Ajit Kumar Behura, Associate Professor Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad-826004, Jharkhand ,IN
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Manager, Katras Open Cast Mines, Bharat Coking Coal Limited, Dhanbad ,INAngad Kumar
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Scientists, CSIR–Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, Dhanbad-826001, Jharkhand ,INMuniyan Sundararajan
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Scientists, CSIR–Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, Dhanbad-826001, Jharkhand ,INRitesh Kumar
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Associate Professor Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad-826004, Jharkhand ,INAjit K. Behura
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Miners’ quality of life, sustainable coal mining operation, human resource management in coal minesAbstract
This research article is an attempt made to study the impact of factors of the domains such as socio-economic, health, sanitation, living environment and working environment on quality of life (QoL) of miners of five coal mines industries. A questionnaire was prepared comprising 15 questions for each domain. Twenty miners per mine were assessed and the data was prepared using excel spread sheet. The quality of life indices were compacted using quality functions for each parameters based on the sensitivity function defined on the quality interval as per the standards or criteria intended. The results show that Ramkanali underground mine possesses the quality of life index of 32.86 while the production per capita was 121.854 and similarly Keshalpur underground mine, WMC opencast mine, BCCL Block-II opencast mine and Salampur underground mines possess 29.37, 33.54, 34.28 and 32.77 while the production per capita were 431.272, 467.561, 397.667 and 171.765 respectively. The present study reveals that the present approach for computing quality of life indices would be functional for planning socio-economic development activities. It is obvious that there will be significant correlation of quality of life index with the productivity; the study could not establish any relation between quality of life and productivity. Thus the study reveals that there may be other domain other than the fore said five, which has not been incorporated in the present study and such domains have to be identified so that the relationship may be established. The present approach is unique and very much useful for assessing not only quality of life but also any system individually. If the quality of the miners’ life with respect to socio-economic, health, sanitation, living environment and working environment is separately computed, this would be a very good study to prepare strategic plan for improving productivity for different mines.
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