"The letters on behalf of our Managing Director Ujjwal Upadhyay have been handed over to Babulal Marandi and Stephen Marandi (who are backing the Samiti) for talks at the Commissioner's office in Dumka," the company's spokesman told reporters.
Babulal Marandi, former chief minister and president of Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantric-JVM), and Congress leader Stephen Marandi are demonstrating in support of Raj Mahal Pahar Bachao Samiti's demands.
Reacting on the dialogue offer, Stephen said, "I will talk to the members of the Samiti and they would decide on it."
Babulal Marandi has already announced that he was staging the demonstration in support of the Samiti and the dialogue with the company should be between its office bearers and the company.
He has also demanded that the state government be a party to the dialogue making it a tri-partite agreement.
Samiti convener Anil Murmu today alleged that the agreement it had signed with the company in 2006 should have been implemented by 2007 while an official with the company insisted that 80 per cent of the agreement was fulfilled.
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Meanwhile, an official of Panem said the company had incurred a loss of Rs 48 crore while a railway officer said the railways lost Rs 55 crore following the blockade of coal-rakes at the Lotamati Railway Siding.
Pakur District Mining Officer Bibhuti Kumar said his department had incurred a loss of Rs 4.32 crore while a Sales Tax officer said his department suffered Rs 1.12 crore loss.
Shyam Yadav, an office bearer of the Dumpers Association, said the loss to dumper owners at Rs five crore.