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Redeploying coal workers: field level challenges and transition alternatives

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  • Dinabandhu Bag

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As of 2020, coal mines had created about 7.25 lakh direct coal jobs and number of indirect jobs in India. However, coal workers are at livelihood risk in India and would be out of jobs in few years. Adequate emphasis on skill based re-employment plans to generate suitable alternate livelihood for the miners is desired. This paper identifies open-cast clusters, arrives at potential job losses, and targets workers to suggest field-level rehabilitation challenges. It uses socio-geo-operational performance indicators to highlight the sub-optimal use of land, number of coal jobs to production, land use to rural population, coal jobs to land use, etc. We formulate a deployment matrix and highlight the employee-specific, location-specific, and market-specific factors for implementing rehabilitation framework for the transitioning coal miners.

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  • Dinabandhu Bag, 2024. "Redeploying coal workers: field level challenges and transition alternatives," Mineral Economics, Springer;Raw Materials Group (RMG);Luleå University of Technology, vol. 37(4), pages 985-993, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:minecn:v:37:y:2024:i:4:d:10.1007_s13563-023-00398-8
    DOI: 10.1007/s13563-023-00398-8
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