Slathia for humanitarian view on mine workers’ demands

Tuesday, 07 02 2012 10:02

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Ask JKML to come up with target oriented business plan
JAMMU, JANUARY-06- The Minister for Industries and Commerce, S.S. Slathia today assured that the Government would take humanitarian and sympathetic view on the demands of coal mine workers keeping in view the tough nature of their job. He asked the management of the Jammu & Kashmir Minerals Ltd. to come up with a workable and financially viable action plan to meet the genuine demands of the workers and employees.
Chairing a meeting of the Board of Directors of the JKML here this morning, Slathia constituted a high level Committee comprising Commissioner/Secretary, Industries and Commerce, Special Secretary, Finance, Managing Director, JKML and representative from the Law Department to examine all the demands of the coal mine workers and employees adding that recommendations and suggestions of the committee shall be deliberated in a Special Board Meeting of the corporation shortly.
“We shall have to take a humanitarian view of the demands and problems of Coal Mine Workers in view of their tough job as compared to other PSU’s Slathia said.
The Minister of State for Industries and Commerce, Dr. Manohar Lal, who is also vice-Chairman of the JKML, Commissioner/Secretary, Industries and Commerce, Umang Narula, Special Secretary, Finance, Mushtaq Sidique and Managing Director of JKML and concerned officers attended the meeting.
The Minister asked the management to formulate target oriented and production linked business plan to ensure a sound economic base for sustained growth of the organization. He also called for introducing Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) in a big way to minimize wage bill of the corporation. He also directed for increasing coal and Gypsum production which has a vast market adding that production should be the bench mark of the Corporation’s business plan. He said there is a potential of 3500 Mts. of coal and 0ne lakh Mt. of Gypsum production which needs to be exploited in the next year adding that the Corporation should reactivate  its  men and machinery to achieve this target.