CIL officials said the Board of Trustees of Coal India Relief Fund headed by R Mohan Das, Director (HR), decided to create the fund through contributions from the employees of CIL and its eight subsidiary companies.
The manpower of CIL as a whole is around 3.27 lakh.
As many as 347 persons have died in Tamil Nadu in various rain-related incidents since October while about 17.64 lakh people were rescued and sheltered in 6605 relief centres across the state, according to the state government.