SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, Dec 8: Congress MLA Jayamangal Singh alias Anup Singh, president of the Indian National Mineworkers Federation, has shot off a letter to the union coal minister for representation of INTUC at the JBCCI Standardisation Committee (SC) meeting to be held tomorrow (December 9).
The Standardisation Committee meeting will be held at South Eastern Coalfield Limited (SECL) Bilaspur ( Chhattisgarh) on December 9 in which Coal India Limited (CIL) has once again ignored INTUC and has invited four national trade unions, BMS, HMS, AITUC and CITU.
Indian National Mineworkers Federation (INMF) president Anup Singh and senior vice-president AK Jha, in a joint letter to the union coal minister, have pointed out the reasons for not giving representation to INTUC (INMF) in Standardisation Committee, sub-committee of Joint Bipartite Committee for Coal Industry (JBCCI) are not known to us.
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“Judgements of the Supreme Court (SC) and the Calcutta High Court had extended INMF (INTUC) representation in the JBCCI- XI meeting. So, the INMF deserves representation in the Standardisation Committee meeting to be held tomorrow,” said Anup Singh and AK Jha, who are also national vice presidents of INTUC, in the letter.
They have also said that the Standardisation Committee is a sub-committee of JBCCI. “Relevant issues of JBCCI are discussed and decisions are taken in the Standardisation Committee. Hence the workers and members of Federation / INTUC are facing difficulties due to ignorance by CIL and coal ministry, government of India in this crucial meeting,” they said.
The INTUC leaders have also pointed out to the coal minister that the INMF has enough miners’ membership in all subsidiaries company of CIL to get proper representation in the JBCCI and its sub-committee.
They have requested the union coal minister either instruct CIL to invite INMF to tomorrow’s Standardisation Committee meeting or extend the meeting to the next date.
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