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Unrest over ban on manual workers for loading, unloading in CCL mines
Badal Sanyal
Kolkata
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Dec. 17
LAW and order problem is reported to have surfaced in certain coal mining areas of Central Coalfields Ltd (CCL) with the implementation of a ban on using manual workers for loading and unloading work.
The ban was imposed by the Union Ministry of Coal, suggesting all coal companies to discontinue such work. It was suggested that the same job should be done mechanically.
The Jharkhand Government has estimated that about 40,000 manual workers will be affected following the mechanisation of jobs. It is feared that since the affected workers and mines belong to "politically disturbed" areas, the consequential impact will be widespread. The mining operation in Jharkhand may be effected in anticipation of movements against the ban on using manual workers. In the process, CCL and the State Government may lose revenue.
In a given situation, the Jharkhand Government has urged the Union Coal Minister, Mr Kaira Muinda, to personally intervene and withdraw the ban on using manual workers in coal mining activities. Since the State has limited job opportunities, mechanisation in mining should be done away with, the State Government has suggested.
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