{"id":300136,"date":"2019-11-08T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T06:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=300136"},"modified":"2019-11-08T11:58:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T06:28:31","slug":"coal-ministry-triples-compensation-for-fatal-mine-accidents-to-%e2%82%b915-lakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-ministry-triples-compensation-for-fatal-mine-accidents-to-%e2%82%b915-lakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal Ministry triples compensation for fatal mine accidents to \u20b915 lakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Families of victims of fatal coal mines accidents will now get an ex-gratia amount \u20b915 lakh for the death of their kin. This 300-per-cent hike in compensation amount was announced by Minister of Coal and Mines Pralhad Joshi.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to coal miners at Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) in Odisha, Joshi said that this welfare measure will cover over 3.5 lakh families of miners working under Coal India and its subsidiaries in eight States.<\/p>\n<p>Joshi said, \u201cI announce enhancement in ex-gratia from \u20b95 lakh to \u20b915 lakh for the coal workers, both permanent as well as the contractors, in case of fatal mine accident.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Families of victims of fatal coal mines accidents will now get an ex-gratia amount \u20b915 lakh for the death of their kin. This 300-per-cent hike in compensation amount was announced by Minister of Coal and Mines Pralhad Joshi. Speaking to coal miners at Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) in Odisha, Joshi said that this welfare measure will cover over 3.5 lakh families of miners working under Coal India and its subsidiaries in eight States. Joshi said, \u201cI announce enhancement in ex-gratia from \u20b95 lakh to \u20b915 lakh for the coal workers, both permanent as well as the contractors, in case of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}