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Welcome to The Mining, Geological & Metallurgical Institute of India (MGMI).
We are the oldest Professional Institute of its kind in Asia.

MGMI - BACKGROUND                     

The initiative for formation of the Institute was taken by Mr. W. H. Pickering, the then Chief Inspector of Mines in India. In his venture to form the Institute, Mr. Pickering received encouragement and help from Mr. T. H. Holland, FRS, (later Sir Holland) and then Director of the Geological Survey of India. They thought that Geologists and Mining Engineers are brothers and it was natural that they should unite.

 

On 16th January, 1906, The Inaugural Meeting was held at Chotanagpur Mounted Rifles Club, Asansol. Sir Andrew Fraser, Lt. Governor of Bengal, Mr. E. H. Walsh, Commissioner of Burdwan and Chairman of Mining Board and 80 original members traveled by a special train from Calcutta to attend the Inaugural meeting. Mr. T. H. Holland, the Director, Geological Survey of India, was elected the first President of the Institute and Mr. W. H. Pickering, the  Chief Inspector of Mines, was elected the first Hony. Secretary. The Governor General of India had also consented to support the movement by being Patron.
The Institute was incorporated under the Indian Companies Act, 1882, on the 16th Sept. 1909. By a special resolution in an Extraordinary General meeting of the Members of the Institute held on 22nd October, 1937, the word “Metallurgical” was added in the Institute’s name and thus the Institute was renamed as “The Mining, Geological & Metallurgical Institute of India (MGMI)”.

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