Lok Sabha Question No. 1744 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-07-30
Subject: Activities/Work through External Sources
Ministry: COAL
Asked by: BHAVANA GAWALI (PATIL)

**GOVERNMENT OF INDIA**

#### 1 MINISTRY OF COAL

###### 1 LOK SABHA

**UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1744**

**TO BE ANSWERED ON 30.07.2015**

**Activities/Work through External Sources**

**1744.	SHRIMATI BHAVANA PUNDALIKRAO GAWALI PATIL:**

Will the Minister of COAL be pleased to state:

(a)	whether many activities/work of public sector coal companies are getting done through external sources;

(b)	if so, the subsidiary-wise details and percentage of work getting done through external sources, subsidiary-wise;

(c)	the number of workers, who have lost their jobs due to getting the work done through external sources; and

(d)	the steps taken/being taken by the Government to stop or reduce the practice of getting the work done through external sources and to rehabilitate the workers who have lost their jobs?

### 1 ANSWER

**MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) IN THE MINISTRY OF COAL, POWER AND NEW AND RENEWABLE ENERGY  (SHRI PIYUSH GOYAL)**

**(a) to (b):** To augment production in a shorter period, some of the activities related to coal production and overburden (OB) removal have been outsourced for the time being.

| **Company**                                 | **By Equipment**   | **Opencast (OC) Coal**               |                | **Overburden Removal (OBR)**          |                |
|---------------------------------------------|--------------------|--------------------------------------|----------------|---------------------------------------|----------------|
|                                             |                    | **Actual (In Mill Te)**  **2014-15** | **Percentage** | **Actual (In Mill CUM)**  **2014-15** | **Percentage** |
| **Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL)**        | Departmental       | 18.545                               | 57             | 35.164                                | 37             |
|                                             | Outsourced         | 14.171                               | 43             | 58.883                                | 63             |
|                                             | Total              | 32.716                               | 100            | 94.047                                | 100            |
| **Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL)**       | Departmental       | 16.408                               | 51             | 31.872                                | 31             |
|                                             | Outsourced         | 16.077                               | 49             | 72.029                                | 69             |
|                                             | Total              | 32.485                               | 100            | 103.901                               | 100            |
| **Central Coalfields Limited (CCL)**        | Departmental       | 31.192                               | 57             | 42.092                                | 43             |
|                                             | Outsourced         | 23.619                               | 43             | 55.286                                | 57             |
|                                             | Total              | 54.811                               | 100            | 97.378                                | 100            |
| **Northern Coalfields Limited (NCL)**       | Departmental       | 72.484                               | 100            | 75.593                                | 36             |
|                                             | Outsourced         | 0.000                                | 0              | 135.021                               | 64             |
|                                             | Total              | 72.484                               | 100            | 210.614                               | 100            |
| **Western Coalfields Limited (WCL)**        | Departmental       | 28.684                               | 85             | 60.685                                | 49             |
|                                             | Outsourced         | 4.898                                | 15             | 62.229                                | 51             |
|                                             | Total              | 33.582                               | 100            | 122.914                               | 100            |
| **South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL)** | Departmental       | 13.089                               | 12             | 72.072                                | 46             |
|                                             | Outsourced         | 99.150                               | 88             | 86.196                                | 54             |
|                                             | Total              | 112.239                              | 100            | 158.268                               | 100            |
| **Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL)**       | Departmental       | 38.474                               | 32             | 39.448                                | 44             |
|                                             | Outsourced         | 81.629                               | 68             | 49.773                                | 56             |
|                                             | Total              | 120.103                              | 100            | 89.221                                | 100            |

| **Company**                     | **By Equipment**   | **Opencast (OC) Coal**               |                | **Overburden Removal (OBR)**          |                |
|---------------------------------|--------------------|--------------------------------------|----------------|---------------------------------------|----------------|
|                                 |                    | **Actual (In Mill Te)**  **2014-15** | **Percentage** | **Actual (In Mill CUM)**  **2014-15** | **Percentage** |
| **North East Coalfields (NEC)** | Departmental       | 0.000                                | 0              | 0.000                                 | 0              |
|                                 | Outsourced         | 0.776                                | 100            | 10.185                                | 100            |
|                                 | Total              | 0.776                                | 100            | 10.185                                | 100            |
| **Coal India Limited (CIL)**    | Departmental       | 218.876                              | 48             | 356.926                               | 40             |
|                                 | Outsourced         | 240.320                              | 52             | 529.602                               | 60             |
|                                 | Total              | 459.196                              | 100            | 886.528                               | 100            |

**(c) & (d):** In view of increase in demand of coal, Coal India Limited (CIL) has outsourced coal production and OB removal in some mines of its subsidiary companies without sacrificing departmental capacity.     As such no worker has lost its job and there is no reduction of manpower due to outsourcing.

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