State-owned Coal India suffered an average daily production hit of 56 per cent during the three-day strike by workers against the government’s move to open the sector to private players, an official said.
A union leader of Coal India had earlier claimed that there was a substantial hit in coal output during the strike days.
The coal workers were on strike from Thursday to Saturday in protest against the government’s move to open the coal sector for commercial mining.
The average daily production by the PSU on the three days was 5,73,000 tonnes, which is 44 per cent of the last 10 days’ average production (from June 22 to July 1) of 12,96,900 tonnes, the official said.
