MCL Syllabus 2024 & Exam Pattern

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MCL Syllabus 2024 & Exam Pattern PDF Download: Mahanadi Coalfields Limited released the MCL CBT Syllabus 2024 & MCL CBT Exam Pattern 2024 for Jr.Overman, Mining Sirdar, and Surveyor posts. To get the highest marks in the exam aspirants must check MCL Jr.Overman Syllabus, MCL Mining Sirdar Syllabus, MCL Surveyor Syllabus & MCL Jr.Overman Exam Pattern, MCL Mining Sirdar Exam Pattern, MCL Surveyor Exam Pattern. You can download the MCL Jr. Overman, Mining Sirdar, Surveyor Syllabus now with the link provided here. The MCL CBT will consist of two sections i.e. A & B. Section A will comprise questions specific to General Awareness/ Aptitude and section A will comprise 20 questions of One mark each, similarly, Section B of the test paper will comprise questions relating to Technical knowledge and will comprise 80 questions of One mark each, with a total of 100 marks.

MCL Syllabus 2024 – Details

MCL Exam Pattern 2024

The CBT will comprise objective-type questions with multiple-choice answers and there will be no negative marking for wrong answers. The instructions will be Bilingual (English / Hindi).

MCL CBT Syllabus 2024

From the following sections you guys can find the MCL Junior Overman, Mining Sirdar 2024 Syllabus and also MCL Surveyor Syllabus here.

Mining Sirdar T&S Gr-C

GENERAL ASSESSMENT

i. General Knowledge and Current Affairs
ii. Reasoning & Mathematical Ability
iii. Awareness of Coal Industries

DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE

1) Method of examining roofs and sides of working places and roadways etc.
2) Method of timbering and set of supports, roof bolting, anchorage testing, withdrawals of supports, Preliminary idea about Salvaging of longwall face equipment.
3) Safety issues regarding Stowing operations, working near water bodies, or unconsolidated mass.
4) Examination of Sumps.
5) Shot-firing and transport and use of explosives in mines.
6) Ventilation and mine gases- elementary.
7) Safety issues in Opencast Workings over-developed pillars, Working at heights, manual handling/ handling of heavy materials, and Marching of heavy machines.
8) Preliminary idea about Reclamation operation in opencast mining.
9) Preliminary understanding of the Safety Management Plan.
10) Provisions of the Coal Mines Regulations 2017, Rules and Byelaws made under the Mines Act 1952, relating to the safety of persons employed in mines in general and to the duties of Sirdars and Shotfirer in particular.
11) Writing of reports.

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Jr.Overman T&S Gr-C

GENERAL ASSESSMENT

i. General Knowledge and Current Affairs
ii. Reasoning & Mathematical Ability
iii. Awareness of Coal Industries

DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE

1) General Safety and Legislation: Duties and responsibilities of workmen, competent persons, and officials (excluding managers, and assistant managers); discipline amongst workers and control of staff. Provisions of the Coal Mines Regulations, 2017, relating to Coal mine working; explosives and shot firing; loading, transportation, and dumping; precautions against danger from fire, dust, gas, and water and of other provisions and Rules, enforcement of and compliance of provisions under the regulations to which overman is responsible. Writing of reports required to be made by overman under the regulations. Hazard Identification, risk assessment, risk management, and safety management plan. Mine Gases: Generation, Properties and Effects, Detection of Mine Gases, Methanometers and Multi Gas Detectors, Gas Chromatograph, Flame Safety Lamps. Dangerous occurrences in mines and dealing with the same; accidents, their causes and preventions; accident reports; not disturbing the place of accident. Mine rescue; physiological effect of mine gases; rescue equipment and First Aid. Sanitation and health; miners’ diseases, their symptoms and preventions.

2) Methods of working: Nature of occurrence of coal seams; geological disturbances and their effects on working conditions; dangers and precautionary measures while approaching geological disturbances areas. The purpose and utility of boreholes in mines; shaft sinking; safety devices; temporary and permanent supports in sinking and working shafts; examination of shafts and outlets. Opencast methods of mining; mechanized and manual methods; deep hole drilling and blasting; shovel and dumpers; dragline; bucket wheel excavators; surface miner; benching; maintenance of haul roads; precautions while extracting developed pillars by opencast method and other safety precautions; methods of reclamation; dump management; high wall mining. General principles of bord and pillar and longwall method; multi-section workings; methods of depilating under different conditions; mechanized pillar extraction; precautions to be taken while working near/ beneath waterlogged areas; roof convergence and convergence measuring devices etc., stone drifting. Elements of roof control Rock Mass Rating (RMR) of roof strata; mechanism of roof bolting; support of roadways; face supports and their types, setting, testing, and withdrawal; systematic support rules; packing and stowing; protection of surface structures; working beneath statutorily restricted areas and surface structures. Safe handling and use of explosives in coal and stone; simultaneous short firing; blasting in fire areas in opencast mines; safety precautions. Inspection of workings; inspection and maintenance of haulage and traveling roadways; man-riding system and return airways; gates and fences etc. Suppression and treatment, sampling and analysis of mine dust. Sources of danger from surface water and underground inundation; precaution to prevent inundation and irruption of water; water dams, water danger plans. Gates and fencing, different kind of fences. Reading of statutory plans.

3) Ventilation, Precautions against Explosions, Fires, and Inundation Natural and mechanical ventilation; ventilation of headings and sinking shafts; siting of auxiliary and booster fans; distribution, measurement, and control of air in mines; estimation of air quantity requirements; methods of coursing of air; anemometer; hygrometer; maintenance of ventilation appliances. Pollution of air; irruption/occurrence of gases in mines; properties of gases; detection and measurement of firedamp and noxious gases; sampling of air; determination of environmental condition; standards of ventilation. Design and construction of flame and electric safety lamps; their use, examination, and maintenance. Suppression and treatment of coal dust; suitability of stone dust; sampling and analysis of mine dust. Elementary knowledge of causes and prevention of firedamp and coal dust explosion, limits of inflammability of firedamp. Prevention, detection, and control of spontaneous heating/fire; sealing off fire areas; fire stopping and their examination; precautions against the outbreak of surface fires; fire fighting on the surface and belowground. Inspection of old workings. Sources of danger from the surface and underground water, precaution to prevent inundation and irruption of water; precautionary measures while approaching abandoned and waterlogged areas, boring machines for exploratory work; water dams; water danger plan. Recovery of mines after explosions, fires, and inundation; precautionary measures during the re-opening and dewatering of mines.

4) Elements of Mining Machinery: Safety aspects and safe use of different kinds of machinery used in underground and opencast mines e.g. SDLs, LHDs, Continuous Miners, Shuttle Cars, Crushers, Conveyors, blast hole drills, rippers; scrappers; shovels; draglines; dumpers; road graders; dozers; wheel loaders; bucket wheel excavators; spreaders; surface miners; Brakes (including service and parking brakes); Use of steam and internal combustion engines in mines. Application of electricity in mines; safety precautions. Winding equipment; ropes and guides; signaling and decking arrangements; safety devices; examination of winding equipment and shaft fittings. Haulage and transport; types of haulage; rope haulage and locomotives; self-acting inclines; haulage roads in underground and opencast working; rails and tracks; their maintenance and inspection; tubs; signaling; safety devices; codes of practices; traffic rules; unsafe practices; derailments. Different types of pumps; principles and use of siphons; drainage and water lodgments. Code of practice for transport, installation, erection, use, and shifting of underground and opencast machinery. Belt conveyors and safety appliances.

Surveyor T&S Gr-B

GENERAL ASSESSMENT

i. General Knowledge and Current Affairs
ii. Reasoning & Mathematical Ability
iii. Awareness of Coal Industries

DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE

1) Linear and Angular Measurements.
2) Area & Volume calculations
3) Theodolite traversing. Leveling.
4) Trigonometry & Rectangular Co-ordinate calculations.
5) True North determination.
6) Triangulation.
7) Topographic Survey.
8) Tacheometry Survey.
9) Survey Adjustments & Theory of Errors.
10) Contouring.
11) Underground Mine Surveys & Opencast Mine Surveys.
12) Correlation of underground & Surface Surveys. Subsidence Survey.
13) Surveys for Construction and Development Purpose: Responsibilities of the Survey Department at the Mine Construction Phase. Setting out Geometrical Elements. Setting out Direction of Workings. Setting out Rail Curves on the Surface & Underground. Surveys during Drivage by Approaching Headings.
14) Dip, Strike, and Fault Problems.
15) Coal Heap Measurement. Overburden Measurement.
16) Duties & Responsibilities of a Surveyor as per Coal Mines Regulations 2017. PLANS: Types of Plans Statutorily required as per Coal Mines Regulations 2017. Accuracy in Underground & Surface Surveying as per the Statute. Plan Accuracy. Knowledge of various provisions under Coal Mines Regulations 2017 and Circulars of DGMS regarding Mine Surveying.
17) Total Station, DGPS, 3DTLS & Drone surveying in Opencast Mines. 18) Application of Computers & Software in Mine Surveying
(SURPAC, LISCAD etc.)
19) Elementary Knowledge in –Remote Sensing & GIS, Geomatics

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MCL Syllabus 2024 – FAQ

For how many marks MCL CBT be conducted?

MCL CBT will be conducted for 100 Marks.

How many papers will be there for MCL CBT?

Two papers will be there in MCL CBT.