Coal India limited Chairman Gopal Singh visited the Ib Valley and lakhanpur Area of Mahanadi Coal Fields ltd (MCl) in Brajrajnagar and Bandh bahal under Jharsuguda district on Friday.
On his arrival at Ib Valley's Samaleswari Open cast mines, labour leader of OCMS, HMS and BMS and others welcomed him. During discussion, Coal India Chairman (CIl) Gopal Singh advised to increase production and solve land acquisition related issues through gram sabhas.
Singh also visited various coal mines along with MCl CMD Anil Kumar Jha, Director Technical (Operation) JP Singh, CMD CMPDI S Saran, DT CIl Vinay Dayal, DT PEP OP Singh and Ib Valley Area GM Madhusudan Sharma.
later at 9 pm, they all visited lakhanpur Area with senior MCl officials where lakhanpur Area General Manager RP Gupta briefed him about mines. Singh was a bit displeased with departmental production strategy and suggested to increase the capacity of the dumpers and shift the habitation over the acquired land as early as possible. A human chain of hundreds of workers headed by OCMS labour Union leader Debaraj Pradhan was shown to Singh protesting his visit. Banharpali IIC Parsuram Bhoi and lakhanpur IIC DB Seth were deputed to maintain law and order.