Talcher clashes: CIL loses 400,000 tonne coal, NTPC`s units shut down

SAMBALPUR.  Over 1,000 contract workers, protesting job loss had gone on a rampage torching 40 vehicles and damaging MCL regional office . Violent clashes between two worker groups at Talcher coalfield in Odisha, operated by Coal India subsidiary Mahanadi Coalfields (MCL), continued for the second day on Saturday washing away 400,000 tonne of coal output and causing forced shutdown of 1,000 Megawatt of power capacity operated by NTPC Ltd.