A section of CIl and SCCl workers will go on 5-day strike from Tuesday even as the Government till late Tuesday evening was making last ditch efforts to avert the agitation. The five trade unions including INTUC and AITUC, have given a strike call to press for their demands including roll- back of the “process of denationalising of coal sector” and stopping “disinvestment and restructuring” of Coal India.
Meanwhile, Coal India ltd has already stepped up supplies to the power plants, which have been facing fuel shortages, to tide over the likely disruption of supplies due to the proposed strike.
“CIl is suppling extra volumes of coal to the power plants and the Railways is fully cooperating with the coal PSU,” an official said. The workers and employees of CIl and Singareni Collieries Company ltd will go on 5-day strike from tomorrow, the Indian National Mineworkers’ Federation said in a statement on Monday.