May 4, 2016 - Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy today launched ‘Contract Labor Payment Management System’- a portal of Coal India Limited (CIL). Shri Goyal congratulated employees of his ministries, public sector undertakings and organization/statutory bodies for their great work towards lighting up India during the last two years.  

Speaking on this occasion, Shri Piyush Goyal said that this portal is one more step to reach out in providing information to the people of India. He added that it will curb problems like corruption and exploitation of labour by the contractors and help in providing proper and timely wages to contractual workers. Through this portal , wages will be calculated and credited directly in the bank accounts of the all contractual labourers . The Minister urged all other PSUs and private sector organizations to replicate this portal and assured that there will be free of cost technical support. This portal will be made fully functional within 45 to 60 days, Shri Goyal said.  

Congratulating the awardees, Shri Piyush Goyal said that the record breaking success is due to the contribution of the dedicated workforce. The Minister said that this awards' ceremony of recognizing 44 employees from 34 organizations of three ministries from 26 states reflects the undaunting spirit of Team India.  Talking about the coal production targets of CIL for the current fiscal , Shri Piyush Goyal said that CIL is aiming at producing 598 million tonnes of coal . With this high coal production, he said that the aim is to reduce the coal import bill by Rs 40,000 crore this year as against Rs 28,000 crore during last year. Regarding the status of coal washeries, the Minister said that CIL is setting up 15 washeries , which will be completed by Ist October, 2017 and they are well on target.  

At the occasion, Shri Piyush Goyal also made the announcement about a series of upcoming mobile application/ web portals of his ministries. He informed that the ministries are working to launch a renewable energy mobile application for solar and wind power bids and projects; a transmission app to provide information regarding the location of new transmission projects and coal linkages auction web portal.  Shri Upendra Tripathy, Secretary, New and Renewable Energy, Shri Anil Swarup, Secretary, Ministry of Coal, Shri Sutirtha Bhattacharya, CMD, Coal India Ltd, CMDs of all the PSUs, Head of the Statutory Body/organizations and senior officials from the Ministries of Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy were present at the event.  

Main Features of Web Portal

The ‘Contract Labour Payment Management System’ web portal is created for the monitoring compliance of labour payment and other benefits for the contract workers under the Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act. 1970. It is an integrated system for all subsidiaries of CIL. The in-house developed application will maintain a comprehensive database of all contract workers engaged by different contractors in CIL and all its subsidiaries. Central Mine Planning and Development Institute (CMPDI) the Ranchi based consultancy subsidiary of Coal India Limited will maintain the portal.  

The system has in-built mechanism to validate minimum wages paid, generate wage slips and employment cards etc. of contract workers as required under the Act. The portal provides access to all contract workers, through a Workers Identification Number (WIN), to view their personal details and payment status. Contract workers can also register their grievances through this portal. The system extends facility to all citizens of the country to view a snapshot of the contract works in CIL and subsidiaries, the number of contract workers engaged, payment status, minimum wages paid etc. The nodal officer at different locations in the company will monitor the process and ensure compliance by all contractors. It has been planned to make payment to the contractors only after submitting a system generated declaration of compliance.  

This will enhance proper monitoring of legal compliances under Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, especially the payment of correct wages to the contract workers and PF deductions and deposit and other statutory obligations.