The coal ministry has directed the Coal India Limited (CIL) to initiate steps to constitute Joint Bipartite Committee on Coal industry (JBCCI)-XI within the shortest possible time since the term of Xth expires on June 30 this year.
A letter to this effect has been sent to the chairman CIL by the coal ministry citing the necessity of constituting fresh JBCCI so that the negotiations for the wage revision of coal miners under National Coal Wage Agreement (NCWA)-XI be hammered out.
The committee is to finalise wages of coal miners working at different subsidiaries of CIL besides the Singareni Collieries Company Limited(SCCL).
