Lok Sabha Question No. 2028 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-03-07
Subject: Jobs to Displaced Persons
Ministry: COAL
Asked by: SUPRIYA SADANAND SULE, HEENA VIJAYKUMAR GAVIT, DHANANJAY BHIMRAO MAHADIK, VIJAYSINH MOHITE PATIL, RAJEEV SHANKARRAO SATAV, JAYAKUMAR JAYAVARDHAN

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COAL

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2028

TO BE ANSWERED ON 7.3.2018

## Jobs to Displaced Persons

## 2028.    SHRIMATI SUPRIYA SULE:

DR. HEENA VIJAYKUMAR GAVIT:

SHRI DHANANJAY MAHADIK:

SHRI MOHITE PATIL VIJAYSINH SHANKARRAO:

SHRI SATAV RAJEEV:

DR. J. JAYAVARDHAN:

Will the Minister of COAL be pleased to state :

- (a)        whether  there is a provision to provide jobs by Coal India Limited and its subsidiaries to the persons displaced due to land acquisition for mining work;
- (b)        the criteria fixed by the Union Government to provide employment to displaced persons due to land acquisition;
- (c)        the number of displaced persons who have been provided jobs during the last three years;
- (d)       whether several cases of providing jobs to displaced persons are lying pending in different coal fields; and
- (e)        the time by which the said pending cases of providing jobs and resettlement of eligible persons are likely to be disposed of?

## A N S W E R

## MINISTER OF RAILWAYS AND COAL (SHRI PIYUSH GOYAL)

- (a):   Yes Madam. There is a provision for providing jobs to the persons displaced due to land acquisition for mining work as per the Coal India Limited (CIL)'s R & R Policy, 2012. Some of the salient features of the R&R Policy of CIL 2012 are:
- i. The  maximum  total  number  of  employments  that  may  be  provided  to  the  land  losers would be limited to the total number of acres of land acquired divided by two.
- ii. However, employments will be released in proportion to the land possessed.
- iii. For every two acres of land one employment can be considered.
- iv. Subsidiary of CIL may give an option to the land losers having less than two acres of land to club together their land to the extent of two acres and nominate one of the land losers  among  the  groups  or  their  dependent  for  employment  under  package  deal  or employment under Descending Order system by preparing the list of eligible land oustees in the descending order of land lost  subject to the cut off equivalent to the total number of  permissible  employments  or  any  other  method  with  the  approval  of  the  respective Board of the Subsidiary.
- v. The land loser must be a domiciled resident/Mool Niwasi and the certificate to this effect shall be issued by the concerned state Authority.

(b): In the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (RFCTLARR) Act, 2013, there is a provision in Second Schedule (Serial No. 4-

Choice of Annuity or Employment) of the said Act to provide employment to displaced person due to land acquisition, which are as follows:

'The appropriate Government shall ensure that the affected families are provided with the following options:

- a) Where  jobs  are  created  through  the  project,  after  providing  suitable  training  and  skill development in the required field,  make  provision  for  employment  at  a  rate  not  lower than the minimum wages provided for any other law for the time being in force, to at least  one  member  per  affected  family  in  the  project  or  arrange  for  a  job  in  such  other project as may be required; or
- b) One-time payment of five lakhs rupees per affected family; or
- c) Annuity policies that shall pay not less than two thousand rupees per month per family for twenty years, with appropriate indexation to the  Consumer  Price Index for Agricultural Labourers'

(c): The number of displaced persons who have been provided jobs during the last 3 years are as under:-

| Company   | 2014-15   | 2015-16   | 2016-17   | 2017-18 (upto 28 th Feb'2018)   |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|---------------------------------|
| ECL       | 313       | 278       | 316       | 337                             |
| BCCL      | 15        | 80        | 05        | 11                              |
| CCL       | 209       | 335       | 117       | 180                             |
| WCL       | NIL       | NIL       | NIL       | NIL                             |
| SECL      | 157       | 253       | 360       | 204                             |
| NCL       | 40        | 36        | 48        | 16                              |
| MCL       | 1132      | 496       | 1070      | 758                             |

(d) & (e) : The subsidiaries wise pending cases of employment of displaced persons(subject to verification) are as below:-

|   S.No. | Subsidiaries Name   | Pending cases of employment.   |
|---------|---------------------|--------------------------------|
|       1 | ECL                 | 217                            |
|       2 | BCCL                | ----                           |
|       3 | CCL                 | 16                             |
|       4 | WCL                 | ----                           |
|       5 | SECL                | ----                           |
|       6 | NCL                 | 8                              |
|       7 | MCL                 | **                             |

The time taken for disposal of employment proposal depends on the submission of required documents with regard to merit of the case, delay in the plan, and proper authentication of the forms by the State Authorities etc. So, it varies on case to case basis and no time limit can be effectively fixed beforehand for this purpose.

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