NORMS OF ECL W.R.

T EMPLOYMENT AGAINST LAND

ITEMS NORMS IN DETAIL

QUANTUM 2 acres of land for one employment
OF LAND
STATUS OF Land should be taken in possession of the company before/at the time of offering employment
POSSESSION
PACKAGE In a package deal, sanction of fixed number of employments against a chunk of land is to be
DEAL considered. The essential criteria is that the nominee should be either himself owner for part
of land directly or by way of being nominated as son, son's son or husband.
In case the landowner has no son and only daughter, daughter's son, son-in-law and they can
be nominated by other landowners for balance part of land to make it two acres.
TAGGING Tagging of land of a landowner for the purpose of employment will be allowed only after the
colliery has used the last parcel of total land falling within such colliery and norm of
employment as prevalent during the use of the last parcel of such land will be applicable.
Different plots of land falling within one colliery leasehold will be allowed. Land over one
colliery cannot be tagged with another colliery/ area.
However, the use of last parcel of land tailing within such colliery for providing employment by
tagging was further placed to ECL Board in its 218th meeting held on 27th Mar 2008 for
relaxation of norms. ECL Board advised to follow the R&R policy.
RELATIONSHIP Opportunity of employment should be provided to the landowner himself/ or son or son's son
or where the landowner is female, her husband. In case, land owner has no son and only
daughter, daughter's son or son-in-law.In case of inherited land, brother and in that case
nominee should also be one of the land owners.
SEX Preferenceshould be given to the eligible male member of the family. If there is no eligible
male member in the family then only eligible female member should be considered for
employment because of the nature of the industry.
EMPLOYMEN Employment will not be considered for ownership of used land i.e. land purchased/acquired
T FOR after the use of land for the purpose of employment. Landowner will get value of the land.
OWNERSHIP
OF USED
DATE OF USE Date of use of land is the actual date of starting of caving operation in case of underground
OF LAND working, date of excavation in case of opencast or where construction is done, the date when
the construction has started.
RECOMMEN- Any proposal for purchase of land or for offering employment can be processed for
DATION employment only if there is specific recommendation by Area Land Cell Committee and Area
CGM/GM justifying the purchase or employment as the case may be. This is as per the
directive of FDs in their meeting held on 7-7-2004.
AUTHENTIC- All papers submitted in the proposal file must be verified and authenticated by the land-
ATION dealing executive of the area before the proposal is forwarded to headquarter.
PHYSICAL Before Initiation of Employment Proposal For Approval:
VERIFICATION
OF 1. General Manger of the Area should request In-charge of local Police Station, attaching
RELATIONSHI related documents submitted by Landowner/ nominee with respect to their relationship, to
P physically verify the same and certify whether the relationship claimed in the documents are
genuine.
2. If, for any reason whatsoever, the police-verification report is not obtained then, the same
may be physically verified by a team of Area Personnel Manager and Area Land Dealing Officer.
The team will visit the residential place of the landowner and physically judge relationship
between the landowner and nominee. The team will take a written and duly signed statement
of the landowner in this regard on the spot and the same should be countersigned by two
neighboring villagers as witnesses and the team members mentioning fulladdress of the place
and date.
 SYSTEM 1. Ownership Certificate is mandatory for purchase of land. Land can be purchased
IMPROVE-
MENT through sale-deed by ECL from a landowner only if his name is recorded as owner against
the concerned plot area of land in the records of State Revenue department.
NORMS 2. Mutation of land in favor of ECL must be done before providing employment /
compensation except in cases where land transfer is governed/ restricted by SPT/ CNT Act
or where conditional employments have been approved by the Competent Authority
against land which are disputed/ sub-judice and mutation of land in favor of the company
isn’t possible before providing employment due to statutory / legal obligations, or the
land has already been acquired through CBA(A&D) Act, 1957 and the mutation hasn’t
been done in view of clarification of MOC, GOI through letter ref no. 43024/6/99-PRIW
dated 2nd Nov 2007, and in those cases following conditions are to be strictly complied
with:
(i) All conditional employments will be treated as temporary till the concerned land
is mutated in favor of the company.
(ii) Physical possession of the land is to be taken before providing the employment.
Unit and Area Authority must issue a written certificate in this regard and the same
should be attached to the employment proposal.
(iii) Agreements for providing approved R&R benefits/employments for taking
physical possession of land from landowners are to be registered in the concerned
State registration office, except where SPT Act and CNT Act are applicable. At the
places where SPT Act and CNT Act are applicable, the employment proposals may be
disposed off by entering into an unregistered agreement along with an affidavit and an
indemnity bond with sureties.In cases where approval is needed from the concerned
District Authority under the provisions of CNT Act for registration of Sale Deed, a clause
in the said agreement is to be inserted as under:-
“It would be the responsibility of the landowners to hand over the copy of the approval of
State Authority in respect of transfer of land, which is involved in employment, to ECL
within next two years. If ECL does not receive the said approval due to the fact that either
the ownership of the landowner over the land is not authenticated by the State Authority
or the Competent Authority of State Government denies to approve the application for
transfer of the land in favor of ECL for any other reason whatsoever then, ECL may take
any disciplinary action including termination of service of the nominee who has been
employed against the concerned land.”

P.S: In ECL, employment against land is guided by Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy of CIL, 2012 at
present. The same is available in the website of CIL.