OREANDA-NEWS. On January 10, 2009 Ministry of Coal Industry approved production program and The Ministry of Coal Industry has approved an industrial program and anti-crisis measures of Lvivvyhillya state enterprise for 2009. Public defending of the program was presented by general director of Lvivvyhillya daugther company Volodmyr Harbuziuk and directors of mines of the enterprise.

The production program envisages that in 2009 miners of Galychyna are to ensure coal extraction in the amount of 2 million 920 thousand tons. At this, sales of production will reach UAH 642.4 million. Only at the account of reduction of ash value by 0.7% coal-miners of Lvivvuhillya plan to gain increase of production by UAH 38.3 million.

In 2009 Lvivvuhillya intends to launch in activity 8 coal-seams. Two out of them are on the Mezhyrichanska mine with production storages in 270 and 450 thousand tons of coal.

Miners of Galychyna region also plan to realize a complex of measures with cutting to consume electrical energy. UAH 3 million 456 thousand is meant to save here.

In December of last year Lvivvuhillya experienced a practice of rejecting attraction of employees of main and supplementary professions to work on week-ends. Practically all Carpathian mines, excluding the Stepova, start to shift to six and five-day working week.

Only at the account of refusal to draw specialists of main and assisting professions to wok on week-ends which leads to growing payment of labour, it proves possible to save UAH 18 million 323 thousand. Over 2 million more is planned to economize on optimization of staff schedule of the enterprise, while UAH 11 million – to save on shortening of expenses for keeping social infrastructure objects.