Talcher coalfield : contractual workers struck work

Talcher coalfield of Mahanadi Coalfield Ltd (MCL) is suffering from strike of thousands of contractual workers for their demand for higher wages paralysing the coal production and dispatch. This has resulted in no coal dispatch to any power station inside and outside of the state from Talcher which provides coal to eight states. The total production loss is about 1.9 lakh tonne from all the eight open cast mines and there was no coal dispatch from the field due to strike by contractual

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