Villagers paralysed four coal mines at Talcher Coalfield

 According to coal officials these four coal mines together produce more than 2 lakh tonne of coal per day.The mines which have been paralysed are Bhubaneswari,Anant,Jaganath and Bharatpur.These four mines supply coal to the  country’s key power sectors including NTPC and Nalco.

  According to sources ,the 4(1) notifications of  land Acquisition Act of village Joragadia was done in August last .But there after 9(1) and 11(1) have not done in the meanwhile .Protesting over the delay in the  providing the employment the villagers resorted to mines bandh and office  lock up.

  There was a discussion between MCL and agitaionists villagers but that didn’t help dissolving the issue and the strike is continuing .Talcher sub collector Manoj Kumar Tripathy said,”We are watching the situation very carefully.There has been GM level talks with the agitating villagers today.Tomorrow I have called a meeting of the villagers and MCL authorities to sort out the issue.

 The shut down of four mega mines  during terminal period of financial period of financial year has cost the coal company very dear.On the other hand the villagers in Talcher also have grievances for employment and land compensation.In absence of the mechanism  such type of agitations  are recurring in Talcher Coalfield which accounts for 60 per cent coal production of Mahanadi coalfield limited.