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27 Sep 2009

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Indo-Asian News Service [IANS]

Rs.1 lakh for kin of Jharkhand labourers killed at Balco [India]

Jharkhand Governor...announced compensation of Rs.1 lakh for the kin of each of those labourers from the state who were killed in a Balco power plant in Chhattisgarh last week. Around 50 labourers...were killed when an under-construction chimney collapsed in the Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd (Balco) [part of Vedanta Resources] in Chhattisgarh’s Korba town...“...labour department officials will ensure that the bodies reach the family members immediately,” an official told IANS.