Department Of Industries Mines & Geology,Government Of Jharkhand

This is the office for the Department of Industries Mines & Geology for the Government of Jharkhand. We are located at Nepal House in the Doranda area of Ranchi. It’s a large government building with many corridors and rooms. Our daily life is filled with files, stamps, and a lot of paperwork regarding the mines and industries in the state. People come from all over with their applications and maps. The building itself has been around for a long time and has that old government feel to it. There are big trees outside and plenty of people waiting in the hallways. We spend our hours checking documents and making sure everything follows the rules. It isn’t always fast, as there are many steps for every process. Sometimes the computers are slow, so we go back to the paper files. We have many departments under one roof here. It gets very busy during the middle of the day. The canteen downstairs is where most of us go to get tea and talk about the work. We are just civil servants doing our jobs in Doranda. It’s a lot of responsibility because of the mining resources in Jharkhand. We don't have any fancy mission statements on the walls. We just come in, do the work assigned to us, and head home when the day is done. It can be a long day sometimes.