August 22, 2008

CIL plans to approve new R&R policy in 3 months

Coal India Limited said that its new resettlement & rehabilitation policy with focus on community engagement would be approved soon.

Mr Partha S Bhattacharjee chairman of CIL said that ''We will push the maximum quantity of coal to every nook and corner of India so that the crisis is over soon. It will take 3 months time to overcome the crisis.''

Describing the proposed R&R policy as unique, Mr Bhattacharjee said that the new policy would focus on the overall development of the community instead of only providing jobs to the affected people and the land oustees. He added that ''The new policy intends to change the living standard of people by increasing their employability.''

He said that the proposed policy would be better than both the national R & R policy and that of the Orissa government. Citing the instance of its Raj Mahal project in Jharkhand, he said that MCL was planning to set up first rate rehabilitation centers in Orissa and in other parts of the country.