Marxists ready to stand up against commercial mining of coal in India
Sudhir Chadda
Oct. 24, 2005

The communists get ready to fight proposal to amend the Coal law to allow commercial mining of coal in India.

A government proposal to amend the Coal law to allow commercial mining of coal in India ran into a rough weather with the CPI(M) (Communist Party of India (Marxist)) on Saturday totally opposing the proposal.

"We are not in favour of passing the Coal Bill 2000 pending in the Parliament," CPI (M) General Secretary Prakash Karat said at an interactive session with the Forum of Financial Writers here.

The Bill currently pending with the Rajya Sabha specifies for its due consideration is being opposed by the trade unions tooth and nail, following which the Group of Minister headed by Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee is now looking into the various issues concerning the coal industry. The GoM has not taken any decision on whether to pursue the passage of the said Bill in view of repeated threats of strike by the trade unions.

Karat also voiced support to the concerns on the domestic steel utilities on the issue of allocation of iron ore to the foreign steel companies establishing their units in the country.

"L N Mittal came to meet me. I told him that how can mines used by SAIL be given to others," he said.

The domestic steel industry has already upped its ante on allocation of iron ore to Posco and Mittal Steel. In earlier statements, the CPI (M) had made it clear that it was not in favour of the South Korean steel giant's investment as it could disbalance the iron ore situation.

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