To design safe and efficient underground mining methodsthrough innovative, analytical, experimental, empirical and computational approaches with due consideration to production, productivity, safety, conservation and sustainability.

1. Design of efficient extraction methodologies for bord and pillar and longwall mining.
2. Design of efficient extraction methodologies for non-coal mining / various stoping methods and different structures for non-coal mines.
3. Design of pillars and arrays of pillars for different mining methods including chain-pillars/barrier pillars 
4. Method of mining for the deployment of Continuous Miner (CM), Shearer, etc. for mechanised extraction.
5. Natural (pillar/rib/snook/stump, etc.) and artificial supports (rock bolts, cable bolts, conventional supports and other suitable supports).
6. Extraction methodologies for thin, thick, contiguous, inclined, deep-seated, complex and difficult coal seams.
7. Formulation/Preparation of Strata Control and Management Plan (SCAMP) / Ground Control Management Plan (GCMP).
8. Instrumentation and strata monitoring during extraction/monitoring and analysis of strata control parameters.
9. Cavability prediction, roof management, ground control risk assessment and geotechnical reliability.
10. Different partial extraction methods to protect the surface and sub-surface structures.

1. Design of underground coal mining methods for different geomining conditions (depth, thickness, discontinuities, inclination etc.) of coal seams.
2. Better understanding of Indian geo-mining conditions and rock mass characterisation (RMR) for an efficient design of support and underground mining structures based on geotechnical investigations.
3. Numerical simulation for stability evaluation of underground structures and strata mechanics investigations.
4. Using basic rock mechanics principles to address different problems of underground coal mining.
5. Designing geotechnical elements (like cut-out distance, rib/snook, roof bolts-based breaker-line support etc.) of continuous miner based mechanised and conventional depillaring.
6. R&D back-ups to deal with extremely difficult to cave to easily caveable roof strata mechanics problems of underground coal mining.
7. Underground instrumentation, monitoring, analysis and validation of strata control parameters.

1. Assessment of caving characteristics in underground coal mines.
2. Stability evaluation of the structures in underground coal and metalliferous mines by analytical, empirical and numerical modelling.
3. Numerical simulation for the design of underground mining by Continuous Miner and Longwall Technology.
4. Feasibility assessment of different stoping methods in underground metalliferous mines.
5. Simulation and performance evaluation of underground support systems.

1. Development of Cable bolting based depillaring of thick coal seams in a single lift.
2. Wide stall mining for partial extraction of coal seams under constraints.
3. Underpinning based simultaneous extraction of contiguous sections under fragile parting.
4. A mining method to extract complete thickness of a thick coal seam (already developed along roof horizon) using staggered technique instead of superimposition in Blasting Gallery.
5. Design of rib-system of mining, Navid method of coal extraction. 
6. Development of Pillar strength equation for underground coal mines and area of main fall prediction equation" during depillaring of Bord & Pillar workings under Indian Geo-mining condition.
7. Development of "Rock failure criteria for stability analysis of rock mass"
8. Development of "Guidelines for support design at the depillaring faces in developed Bord & Pillar workings in Indian Coal Mines".
9. Development of "Guidelines for designing of support system for parting stability between contiguous seam workings during development and depillaring in Indian Coal Mines".
10. Development of "Pillar strength equation in the presence of non-coal bands in coal seams for underground coal mines "
11. Design of special method of mining such as "Goaf Pillar Method of Mining", "Non-effective Width Method of Mining", and "Wide Stall Method of Mining" for Bord & Pillar workings below the surface or sub-surface structures.
12. "Pillar design and extraction methodology for Multi-seam Workings and Steeply Incline coal mines".
13. Expertise in the design of extraction methodology for developed/virgin  "Bord & Pillar Workings" in underground coal mines using "Mass Production Technology" such as Continuous Miner Technology, Shortwall Mining and Blasting Gallery Method.
14. Designed Continuous Miner Panels/instrumentation and monitoring at umpteen coal mines’ locales.
15. Developed a conceptual model to design rib/snook, breaker-line support and cut-out distance for mechanised depillaring in unique Indian geomining conditions.
16. 2D & 3D Numerical modelling for design of mining methods, stability assessment and support design.
17. Design and/or feasibility studies addressing all types of underground geo-mechanics problems for Metalliferous mines related to:
18. Design and stability assessment of shaft and decline.
19. Design of support system for decline and other drivages used for mining purposes.
20. Design and stability analysis of crown pillar, sill pillar, rib pillars, stope back.
21. Design of various stoping methods with paste fill, CRF (Cemented Rock Fill) and RF under different geo-mining conditions.
22. Design of mining methods below open pit in metalliferous mines.
23. Ground Control Management Plan and Geotechnical monitoring of metalliferous mines.
24. Automatic measurement of strata deformation, nature and amount of stress redistribution during underground coal mining, online monitoring and analysis of strata control parameters.
25. Worked in a Joint research project under ASCR, Czech Republic-CSIR, India (2009-2014) on “Rock mechanics investigations to meet challenges of strata control of deep underground coal mining using de-stress blasting to mitigate the problems of coal bump/rock bursts and manage caveability of hard and massive roof strata”.