QUETTA, May 5: Provincial Minister for Mines Mir Abdur Rehman Mengal tabled the Balochistan Mines (Amendment) Bill 2011 in the house on Thursday.

Mr Mengal informed the house that the inquiry report about the coalmine accident would be submitted to the chief minister in three days.

During the session, presided over by Speaker Aslam Bhootani, he said the labour department had recommended the payment of Rs500,000 each to the families of those killed in the accident and the matter was under consideration.

Ministers on points of order raised questions about wheat procurement in Nasirabad, electricity problem in Makran, absence of 17 employees recently appointed in the education department in Kalat and the inquiry report regarding the March 20 Sorrange coalmine accident.

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