Mining.com: India coal miners end nationwide strike

Coal miners in India have put an early end to a strike against government plans to commercialize mining of the commodity and sell a 10% of the state-controlled monopoly Coal India (CIL), in a move said to be the largest industrial action in the country since 1977. Five major trade unions had called the five-day strike from Tuesday, shutting down production at all of CIL’s coal mines — which supply about 80% of India’s total coal requirement—, sparking fears of…

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