Jharkhand CM warns of shutting coal mines over non-payment of dues by PSUs
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren has warned the coal companies of putting barricades around coal mines if due payment of worth Rs 1.36 lakh crore is not cleared to the state by Central PSUs.
“We have demanded payment of Rs 1.36 lakh crore (dues) to the state from the coal companies, and we will take it, this is State’s right otherwise we will put barricades around coal mineral resources,” the Chief Minister said in his speech in the Legislative Assembly on Friday.
Soren had raised the issue of non-payment of dues by coal companies to the Centre in a letter to Union Coal and Mines Minister Pralhad Joshi dated March 2, 2022.
