Innovative and Responsible Mining for Inclusive Growth Proceedings, 11th Asian Mining Congress, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, October 30–31, 2025

Dr. Amalendu Sinha is MSc App. Geology, MSc (Tech) Mineral Exploration, PhD (App. Geology), from ISM, now IIT (ISM) Dhanbad and retired as Director, CSIR-Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research in July, 2015. His main area of research was Rock Mechanics and Geotechnology. He is recipient of various awards, published a large number of papers in journals and conferences and have some patents to his credit. He is a reviewer of many reputed journals.

Prof. Bhabesh C. Sarkar, a renowned Geostatistician having 45 years of professional experience with a strong blend of industry and academics, is a Professor of Applied Geology at IIT Bombay in the Department of Earth Sciences. He obtained his five-year Integrated M.Sc. Applied Geology from IIT Kharagpur in 1980 and PhD & DIC in Mining Geostatistics from Imperial College London in 1988. He has over 125 research publications in journals and proceedings of repute, 5 books, 3 book volumes and 6 patents to his credit.

Dr. Prabhat Kumar Mandal is Chief Scientist and Head of Mining Methods & Geomechanics Division, CSIR-CIMFR, Dhanbad & Professor, AcSIR, India. He graduated in Mining Engineering from BE College (now IIEST), Shibpur in 1993, did MTech from IIT Kharagpur & PhD from BESU (now IIEST), Shibpur. He has over 30 years of R&D experience in rock mechanics & mining, having over 160 publications and executed more than 190 projects. He is editorial board member & reviewer of several reputed journals.