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Benzinga
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Navdeep Yadav

Indian Coal Mine Workers Get Only $1.6 In Monthly Pension — An Online Petition Seeks To Change That

A Change.org petition is trying to get the Indian government's attention to change the "paltry" monthly pension for its retired coal mine workers. 

The petition addressed to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on his government to revise the pension, which ranges between 50 to 125 rupees ($0.64 to $1.6) per month — an amount that has not changed since the inception of the Coal Mines Pension Scheme 24 years ago.

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