Question : WELFARE OF COAL MINES LABOURERS



(a) the number of coal mines and the places thereof;

(b) the quantity of coal extracted from these mines each day;

(c) the number of labourers engaged in each of the mines directly and indirectly; and

(d) the activities proposed for the welfare of labourers in these mines?

Answer given by the minister

MINISTER OF STATE FOR COAL (DR. DASARI NARAYANA RAO)

(a) The number of working coal mines in Coal India Limited and its subsidiaries and Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) is as under :-

Company	State	Districts where mines	Total	are located	no. of mines
Eastern West Bengal Burdwan, Purulia, 98 Calfields Bankura, 18 Limited (ECL) Jharkhand Godda, Pakur, Deogarh, Dhanbad Bharat Coking Jharkhand Dhanbad, Bokaro 83 Coal Limited

(BCCL) West Bengal Burdwan 3 Central Jharkhand Hazaribagh, Bokaro, 59 Coalfields Ranchi, Limited(CCL) Chatra, Palamau, Latehar Northern M.P Sidhi 5 Coalfields Uttar Limited Pradesh Sonebhadra 3

(NCL) Western Maharash Chandrapur, Yavatmal, 51 Coalfields tra Nagpur Limited

(WCL) Betul, Chhindwara 32 M.P. South Eastern Chhattis Koren, Gorguja, Korba, 54 Coalfields garh Raigarh Limited 37

(SECL) M.P. Anuppur, Umaria, Shadol Mahanadi Orissa Angul, Jharshuguda 24 Coalfields Sundargarh Limited

(MCL) North Eastern Assam Tinsukia, Shibsagar, 6 Coalfields Dibrugarh

(NEC) Meghalaya South Garo Hills 1
Singareni Andhra Adilabad, Karimnagar, 66 Collieries Pradesh Warangal and Khammam Company Limited (SCCL)


(b): The average quantity of coal extracted by the subsidiaries of Coal India Limited and Singareni Collieries Company Limited is given below :

Subsidiaries of Coal India 9.059 lakhs tonne per day Limited
Singareni Collieries 1.10 lakhs tonne per day Company Limited

(c): The number of persons employed company-wise as on 1.11.2004 is given below:


Company Manpower as on 01.11.2004
Eastern Coalfields Ltd. 1,07,006 Bharat Coking Coal Ltd. 94,604 Central Coalfields Ltd. 68,345 Western Coalfields Ltd 69,334 South Eastern Coalfields Ltd. 89,032 Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd. 21,352 Northern Coalfields Ltd. 17,248 North Eastern Coalfields 3,514 CMPDI 3,328 Coal India Ltd. (HQ) 1,222 Total 4,75,885 Singareni Collieries 92,514 Companies Limited



Coal Companies do not employ workers indirectly. However, contractors engaged for certain jobs in turn deploy their workers.

(d): The employees and their families have been extended various facilities like housing, water supply, medical care, sports and games, cultural activities etc. Welfare Boards consisting of representatives of the management and trade unions are functioning at Apex level at CIL and at company level to oversee these activities.