A chromite ore body located in eastern India is to be extracted by sub-level open stoping method. A vertical circular shaft and a decline are required to be developed for transporting man, material and air. It is decided that the shaft and the portal of the decline will be located in the footwall side of the ore body. The top most cross-cut from the decline will contact the ore body at about 170 mRL. This study has been conducted to evaluate the engineering properties of lining material and its thickness for the proposed shaft and decline geometry. In order to perform such tasks, borehole rock samples are tested to estimate the engineering parameters of the country rocks and ore body. Apart from that rock mass rating (RMR) and geological strength index (GSI) of rocks are also determined. Two dimensional numerical modelling techniques have been employed to estimate the stress and displacement distributions around the decline and shaft. This paper presents the methodology and results of this study and demonstrates the efficacy of numerical modelling technique in stability analysis of shaft and decline.