While the Indian coal companies are reaping huge profits and the IPO for Coal India Limited has garnered good money, it is the workers who are being treated shabbily with very low wages compared to international wages.

The work of the coal miners are very risky. Landslides, fire and such accidents often happen endangering their lives. Considering all these, the coal workers are getting better wages in other countries who are top coal producers. While a coal worker in Australia gets an average wage of $ 53.11 an hour and In UK $ 53.00, Indian worker gets only $ 0.63 an hour. What a huge disparity!     (based on a report in Times of India dated 20-12-9010)