Gauhati High Court stays transfer orders of 213 Coal India Limited employees amid privatisation fear
Gauhati High Court has stayed the transfer orders of 231 employees of Coal India Limited’s North Eastern Coalfields based on petitions filed by employees unions fearing closure or privatisation of the coalfields.
A bench of justice, Suman Shyam issued the order on September 24, in which the court asked CIL to suspend all transfer orders till October 13, the next date of hearing of the petitions.
The petitioners sought the court’s intervention alleging that the Coal India Limited was in the process to close down mining activities in its Tikak, Tikak Extension, Tirap and Lekhapani segments in eastern Assam’s Tinsukia district without citing any valid reason. They also feared that the CIL was planning to handover the mining activities in the region to private companies and so they were transferring employees to other parts of the country.
