West Bengal: 70 trapped coal workers of Eastern Coalfields rescued

Manment of Eastern Coalfields Limited on Sunday resued around 70 labourers from a coal mine after y were trapped inside for more than 15 hours. 

"Due to malfunction of both steam-powered and electric-powered lifts, se workers were trapped. Later we rescued around seventy labourers after we restarted lift via steam," an official of Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL) manment said. Meanwhile, trapped are blaming officials for mishap.

"We were terrified after we saw lifts were t working. Our families were really worried about us. This happened because of safety officer. It's all because of carelessness of authorities. We came here to work at coal mine around 11 pm on Saturday and were supposed to work till 7 am on Sunday. We were taken out around 10:30 am," one of labourer named Prem Said. ding furr he said, "We want police to arrest safety officer and interrogate him". 

So far re have been reports of any worker being injured while being trapped in lifts in mine.

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About Eastern Coalfields Limited

With having coal mines in Jharkhand and West Bengal, Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL) is a coal producer based in India, which was founded post nationalisation of coal mines in India in 1975. company inherited all private sector coal mines of  Raniganj Coalfield. ECL is also one of  fully owned subsidiaries of Coal India Limited. ECL has its hequarters at Sanctoria, in West Bengal. With having around 72,973 employees, ECL h proved reserves of 16.94 billion tonnes – 12.42 billion tonnes in West Bengal and 4.52 billion tonnes in Jharkhand. Total reserves in ECL command area, up to a depth of 600 m, was 49.17 billion tonnes (figures are till year 2012).

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(With inputs from ANI)