LAGATAR24 NETWORK
Dhanbad, March 29: The Supreme Court today endorsed the ruling of the Calcutta High Court order over the inclusion of Bermo MLA Jayamangal Singh alias Anup Singh led faction of INTUC (Indian National Mines Working Federation) in the JBCCI (Joint Bipartite Committee for the Coal Industry) and dismissed the SLP of former minister Chandrashekhar Dubey alias Dadai Dubey led INTUC faction.
INMWF (Anup Singh faction) senior vice-president AK Jha while giving this information said that the Supreme Court bench comprising Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Justice Manoj Mishra and Justice Arvind Kumar today dismissed the petition of Dadai Dubey challenging the order of the Calcutta High Court. Thus now representatives of Anup Singh’s INMWF (Indian National Mine Workers Federation) would sit in the JBCCI.
Dadai Dubey had moved the SC after the Calcutta High Court double bench on February 10, 2023, ordered Coal India Limited (CIL) management to include representatives of INMWF at the JBCCI meeting for deciding the 11th National Coal Wage Agreement (NCWA) of miners.
The former MP Dadai Dubey challenged it (filed SLP) in Supreme Court on February 28 claiming his faction should be given representation.
But today the Supreme Court bench dismissed his petition and cleared the deck for the INMWF (Anup Singh) to sit in the JBCCI.
Due to a factional feud in the Indian National Trade Union Cong (INTUC) and pending cases in different courts across the country, Coal India Limited management stopped giving representation to Cong Party’s trade union in coal wage and other meetings from NCWA 10th when INTUC national general secretary Rajendra Prasad Singh was alive and in present NCWA 11th till date.
Since 2017 only representatives of four trade unions HMS, AITUC, BMS and CITU have been allowed to participate in JBCCI.
When CIL constituted the JBCCI for the 11th NCWA on June 10, 2021, and ignored the representation of INTUC, the Indian National Mines Workers Federation ( Anup Singh) filed a writ in the Calcutta High Court on June 22, 2021, for representation in JBCCI as it has second thr highest (49000) miners membership in CIL.
The court on June 20, 2021 dismissed the petition. The INMWF moved the double bench of the High Court and on February 10, 2023, the High Court ordered to include INMWF in the JBCCI.
“It is a result of contribution of late Rajendra Prasad Singh and hard labour of INMWF president Anup Singh. Participation of INMWF at JBCCI meeting would help in providing justice to miners of CIL,” said AK Jha, senior vice-president.
