{"id":646034,"date":"2025-09-13T07:47:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T02:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=646034"},"modified":"2025-09-13T08:52:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T03:22:19","slug":"coal-india-to-raise-workers-ex-gratia-in-mine-accidents-to-rs-25-lakh-from-sept-17-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-india-to-raise-workers-ex-gratia-in-mine-accidents-to-rs-25-lakh-from-sept-17-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal India to raise workers\u2019 ex gratia in mine accidents to Rs 25 lakh from Sept 17: Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Coal Minister G Kishan Reddy on Friday announced a series of decisions aimed at improving worker welfare and modernising Coal India Ltd (CIL), the country\u2019s largest coal producer. <\/p>\n<p>At a press briefing, Reddy said the miner had decided to enhance workers\u2019 compensation in the event of a mine accident to \u20b925 lakh from the existing \u20b915 lakh. The revised ex gratia will take effect from September 17, coinciding with Vishwakarma Diwas and Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Coal Minister G Kishan Reddy on Friday announced a series of decisions aimed at improving worker welfare and modernising Coal India Ltd (CIL), the country\u2019s largest coal producer. At a press briefing, Reddy said the miner had decided to enhance workers\u2019 compensation in the event of a mine accident to \u20b925 lakh from the existing \u20b915 lakh. The revised ex gratia will take effect from September 17, coinciding with Vishwakarma Diwas and Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s birthday.<\/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":[194,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646034","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=646034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}