The Union minister of state (independent charge) for coal, statistics and programme implementation, Sriprakas Jaiswal met the Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday.

The issues pertaining to the state owned Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL) like the forest clearance, law and order situation in the coal mining areas and local issues figured in the discussion.

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He said, there are some land losers’ rehabilitation issues and officials of the MCL will sit with the chief secretary to sort out them.

Sources said, though the company is paying compensation to the land looser families as per the Orissa government’s rehabilitation and resettlement (R&R) policy, some people are still demanding jobs beyond the R&R policy. Keeping that in view, it has been decided that they will be provided some kind of indirect jobs.

Similarly, the Coal India chairman Partho S Bhattacharjee assured the chief minister to expedite the work of setting up of a medical college at Talcher. Patnaik had suggested Bhattacharjee to expand the existing 100 bedded hospital of CIL at Talcher to 400 bedded hospital and convert this into a medical college during his visit to Orissa in April last year.

Sources said, the state government was supposed to handover 1000 acres of land for construction of rehabilitation colony for the oustees of the Talcher Coal-fields. Out of it, the government has identified 432 acres which is yet to be identified. Later the chief minister said, he has suggested the MCL authorities to take up massive plantation in Talcher area, which suffering from acute pollution problems.

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