163. Training Centre.—(1) The employer of every mine shall provide and maintain a training centre which shall be adequate for the purpose of imparting the training required to be undergone by the persons who are employed or to be employed in the mine:

Provided that the Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator may, by an order and for the reasons to be recorded in writing and subject to such conditions as may be specified therein, authorise that a common training centre may be provided and maintained in respect of two or more mines belonging to the same employer.

(2) The Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator may permit in writing, subject to such conditions as may specify therein, a common training centre owned and maintained by a group of employers for imparting training in more than one mine:

Provided that where a common training centre is established and maintained by a group of employers of those mines shall nominate one among them to assume the responsibility of employers of the common training centre for management, supervision, direction and control there at and the nominated owner shall submit notice in writing to the Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator and the Inspector-cum-Facilitator.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-rule (1) and sub-rule (2), the Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator may approve in writing, subject to such conditions as may be specified therein, a training centre established under any other law for the time being in force subject to having such infrastructure and facilities as specified by the Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator through general or special order issued from time to time, for imparting training under these rules.

(4) Every application for approval under sub rule (3) shall be made in a proforma and accompanied by a fee prescribed by the Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator, based on recommendation of the committee constituted by the Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator through general or special order issued from time to time.