K Gnana Desikan

Tamil Nadu: Contract Workers of Neyveli Lignite Corporation on a Protracted Struggle for Justice

Neyveli Lignite Corporation of India Limited (NLC) is a central public sector undertaking established in 1956 under the Ministry of Coal, Government of India. The CPSU produces 30 million tons of lignite annually from open cast mines in Neyveli, the coal town of Tamil Nadu and Barsingsar of Rajasthan. It owns thermal power stations with an installed capacity of 3640 MW.