The Odisha Coalfield Workers’ Union affiliated to CITU recently submitted a 13-point charter of demands to the lingaraj Project officer (PO).
The union threatened to hold demonstration before the lingaraj mine and the office of the PO if the demands were not fulfilled soon, said CITU Angul district president Anada Acharya.
The demands, included eviction of the non-employees who have illegally occupied MCl quarters and land, allotment quarter to the employees, who have lost their land for various mines and taking into account the seniority of the employees, transparency in allotment of quarters, non-payment of electricity tariff for the unsafe quarters, safety in the colonies, maintenance of the quarters and colouring, and construction of boundary wall around the quarters, among others.
The union said that although Estate Officer AK Sinha of the MCl had issued an eviction notice to the unauthorized occupants of 88 quarters in 2010-11, nothing happened in practice.