Chandrapur: Three Western Coalfields Limited (WCL) The union has been holding hands and started protests against the decision to manage WCL Chandrapur to close the UG-Land Coal Mine (UG) located in the city.
The carrier of the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INUC), the center of Indian Workers Union (Culu) and Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) rejected unsafe mine management claims as a rule of closing and charged that the mine had been closed after the plant.
Per tons of coal losses and to cover corruption in transfers.
Senior Leader of Culu G Ramanna claims that the Mahakali UG Mine has coal reserves of 5.8 million metric tons of coal and can continue production at least for the next 30 years.
However, the management closed the mine suddenly from September 2, quoting safety reasons without taking unions with confidence.
“The Union leader team surveyed the mine and did not find a safety lacuna.
Officials from the Directorate General of Safety Mine (DGMS) did not conduct safety surveys or submit reports of salvation deviations in the mine, which was mandatory in the case of security reasons.
The procedural part 22 was also not called for closure I, “Ramanna said.
Intuku leader Chandrama Yadav claimed that the delegation of union leaders met with General Manager (AGM) Muhammad Sabir and looked for DGM reports for mine closure, but Sabir did not serve it.
Instead, he told the union leaders that the mine was closed after the oral order of Manoj Kumar, Director of Managing Chair (CMD) from WCl.
“When the union leaders met Kumar, he gave a dodged answer,” Yadav added.
Yadav said that as many as 377 workers from where, Durgapur Rayyatwari, Mahakali and Nadgaon UG had been transferred to an open actor between January 2020 and March 2021.
Of these, 150 workers came from the Mahakali Mine.
Now I have closed, management has served notifications to workers, stating that they are transferred to other UG mines.
“They have a plan to gradually close the two UG mines in Nandgaon and Durgapur Rayyatwari Colliaries (DRC) and shift all workers to the WCl mine in Pathakheda where the new project will appear,” Yadav was charged.
The three unions have presented a notification to management, starting the gate meeting and gradually closing coal delivery for one day each at four different mines between 3 and 6 September.
“Our agitation will continue until September 15.
If management does not agree.
For our request and restart the Mahakali UG mine, we will close all 10 coal mines in Chandrapur without limits from September 16,” BMS leader Vivek Satipute.
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