Explosives Act, 1884
3. Chronology of the
establishment set up
- First Branch Office of the Department was opened in
Pune in 1925 and then Chief started discharging his duties with the help
of one Inspector each at Calcutta and Pune.
- By 1938, the Department had further extended to four
Circle Offices at Lahore , Chennai, Calcutta and Mumbai, with Head Office
at Calcutta . Subsequently a Central Circle Office was
opened at Nagpur , which was later shifted to
Gwalior .
- The Head office was also shifted time to time from
Shimla to Calcutta , Calcutta to New Delhi and after independence
from New Delhi to Nagpur . The present Head office is at
Nagpur.
- During partition of India and Pakistan, the office at
Lahore was shifted to Agra.
- One sub-circle office at Gomia was started in 1958, due
to the start of the first high explosives manufacturing factory(ICI Ltd)
in the country.
- Sub-circle offices at Asansol (West Bengal) and
Sivakasi (Tamil Nadu) came into existence by that time.
- A new Sub-Circle office at Hyderabad was opened on
02.12.1968 and a Sub-Circle office Guwahati for the North-Eastern States was
started in 1973.
- A Sub-Circle office at Hazaribagh and Pay &
Accounts Office at Nagpur were opened in 1976.
- In 1979-80, a Sub-Circle office at Bhandara was opened
due to Commissioning of Commercial High Explosives plant of the Ordinance
Factory Bhandara, Maharashtra.
- The first re-organization of the department was
completed in the two years 1980-81 and 1981-82 by opening of Sub-Circle
offices at Rourkela, Manglore, Ernakulam, Baroda, Chandigarh, Bhopal and
Jaipur. The Central Circle office at Gwalior was abolished.
- The major re-organisation of the Department was
sanctioned in 1995 by increasing the strength of Group-A Technical
Officers from 67 to 151. New Circle office viz. North Circle office at
Faridabad (near New Delhi) and Sub-Circle office at Allahabad and the
Central Testing Station at Gondkhairi, Nagpur for better
functioning of the Department.
- At present the Department, apart from the Head Office
(and Central Testing Station) at Nagpur, has 5 Circle offices and 18
Sub-Circle/Factory attached offices.
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