Chairman-cum-Managing Director of Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) has appealed to trade union leaders to re-consider the decision of resorting to strike from July 2.
CMD BN Shukla observed that mainly the demands pertained to policy decisions beyond the purview of the company, and reiterated that no coal block allotted to Mahanadi Coalfields was going to be auctioned.
“At present, MCL has 48 coal blocks having mine-able resource of 29,100 MT, which can meet the requirement of thermal coal for another 100 years and another miscellaneous 22 projects are in pipeline, which includes washeries, coal gasification, solar power, CHP etc,” he said in his appeal, adding that the company aims at achieving coal production of 263 million tonne by 2023-24.
In the current financial year, the MCL has been assigned with a target of 173 MTs of coal. However, “MCL, at present, is lagging behind in its production and overburden removal targets,” the CMD added, emphasising that any further stoppage of work will not be in the interest of company.
Notably, the Central trade unions/federations have served notices for resorting to a three-day-long-strike in Coal India and its subsidiaries from July 2 in support of their charter of demands.
