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New Delhi: Seventy-five retired coal mine employees, consisting of former chairmen, managing directors and directors of Coal India Limited and Singareni Collieries Company Limited, on Monday (March 23) wrote to prime minister Narendra Modi, urging him to address the issue of long pending pension revision, which they have repeatedly raised has remained unchanged without any revision since their retirement.

“We have superannuated from Coal India Ltd. (CIL) / its Subsidiary Companies and Singareni Collieries Company Ltd. (SCCL), after serving the nation for decades, many of us at the level of Chairman and Directors. Our collective efforts, along with lakhs of coal workers, have helped build these institutions into pillars of India’s energy security, contributing over 55% of the country’s commercial energy needs and generating more than Ra 70,000 crores annually for the national exchequer,” read a letter, dated March 23, 2026.

“The root of the problem is the fact that the pension fixed on the date of retirement, remains constant forever without any adjustment for rise in prices,” they said.

The retirement age for coal mine employees is 60 years. Many of the protesting pensioners are in the age bracket of 70-90 years now, facing serious health problems and struggling to meet........

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