(a) whether the Coal India Limited has chalked out a scheme for making optimum use of the manpower available with the company;
(b) if so, the details thereof;
(c) whether the Coal India Limited has worked out the
number of surplus workers;
(d) if so, the details in this regard;
(e) whether the Government have prepared any action plan
for the re-deployment of surplus workers; and
(f) if so, the details thereof?
THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR COAL (SHRI N.T. SHANMUGAM)
(a) to (f): A statement is laid on the Table of the House.
STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO LOK SABHA
STARRED QUESTION No. 30 FOR ANSWER IN LOK SABHA ON
21.11.2000
(a) & (b): Yes Sir. Coal India Limited draws up
Annual Action Plan fixing production and productivity
targets and deployment of manpower so as to ensure their
effective utilisation.
(c) & (d): Based on the production/productivity target,
the following surplus number of employees have been
identified, as on 1.4.2000
1. Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL) - 7,185 2. Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL - 7,966 3. Central Coalfields Limited (CCL) - 8,553 TOTAL - 23,704The estimation of surplus manpower is based on the assumption that all the mines currently under operation will continue to work and follow the existing methods of mining. However, in ECL, BCCL and CCL, an exercise of reorganization of areas/mines is going on and the possibility of closure of highly losing mines is also being explored as part of the revival strategy. The estimation of surplus workforce may undergo considerable change in the event of such reorganization/closure of mines.