Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Thursday, Aug 08, 2002
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Thursday, Aug 08, 2002 |
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Industry & Economy
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Coal Coal output hit for the third day — Talks to end Singareni miners' stir deadlocked Our Bureau
HYDERABAD, Aug.7 THE strike by miners of the State-owned Singareni Collieries Company Ltd, entered the third day today. Parleys between the management and the workers, being held at Kothagudem, remained deadlocked even as the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, appealed to them to revert back to work. The indefinite strike announced by the colliers from Monday has affected production in about 60 mines, including some open cast mines. The strike call called by the recognised Singareni Collieries Workers Union (SCWU), which is affiliated to AITUC, was supported by unions affiliated to IFTU, CITU, and HMS on the first day. Miners in Kothagudem, Yellandu, Manuguru, Godavarikhani, Bellampally and other coalfields struck work that resulted in production loss of about 60,000 tonnes as against the daily output of about one lakh tonnes. Following the failure of talks between the SCCL management and the representatives of the miners' organisations and the Government, the Chief Minister appealed to the miners to call off the strike and said that this move would put adversely affect the company at a time when it was making a significant turnaround. On the first day itself, the production loss was estimated at about Rs 6.5 crore as 90 per cent of the workers struck work. Further, even the workers lost wages of about Rs.3.5 crore. The strike impact is spread over about four districts across the State. The workers struck work indefinitely following failure of talks with the management and the Government over a 40-point charter of demands. The strike covered 55 underground and 11 open-cast mines. Though the strike is unlikely to impact power generation, coal production has been impacted. The miners are against the management's decision to make salary payments through cheques (they now receive it in cash), and to increase tub capacity. The issue of free power to the houses of miners is also a sticky one. The miners are being asked to consider bigger tub haulage and the management had said that they would be compensated. However, the miners are against these moves.
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