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Telangana: BRS pushed SCCL into debt, BJP alleges

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Hyderabad: After Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president and Telangana IT minister KT Rama Rao called for protests during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Hyderabad on Saturday, BJP MLA Eatala Rajender held that the state government was responsible for the debts incurred by Singereni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL).
While talking to the media at the BJP party office, Rajender questioned chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on the reduction of the headcount in Singareni after the number of its employees dropped from 63,000 in 2014 to 43,000 employees in 2023.
Criticising the BRS-led state government, Eatala went on to ask, “While the workers in Coal India are getting Rs 930 per day as wages, Singareni workers are getting 430. Who is exploiting the workers?”

“After the amendment of the Mines and Minerals Regulation Act in 2015 that gave leverage to the Telangana government to get coal blocks allocated through Coal India, it failed to apply and secure even one of the four coal blocks directly under its control since 2017,” said Eatala.
Rajender further alleged that the BRS willfully made the Singareni write to the Centre that mining the Tadicherla block wasn’t feasible.
“Genco was allocated the Tadicherla coal block, and it requested Singareni to do the mining. But Singareni was asked to submit that it wasn’t viable,” said Eatala.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 8, 2023
Telangana: KTR calls for ‘Maha Dharna’ against SCCL privatisation

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Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi’s (BRS) working president and Telangana minister KT Rama Rao on Thursday gave a call for a massive protest against the centre’s decision to auction Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) coal mines.
Stating that the centre issued a notification to auction the mines in Sathupalli Block 3, Shravan Palli, Penagadapa, KTR demanded the auctioning process, which was scheduled to be conducted from March 29 to May 30, to be rolled back.
Vehemently opposing the central government’s ‘veiled attempts’ to privatise the SCCL, KTR gave a call for Maha Dharna, a press release stated.

Further, he demanded that SCCL should allocate the mines without auctioning. “BRS leaders and activists along with Singareni employees will protest against the centre, in Mancherial, Peddapalli, Ramagundam on April 8,” said the minister.
KTR spoke about the economic significance of SCCL, the centre’s conspiracy to impede Telangana’s growth by privatising SCCL, and the disastrous impact of its privatisation on various sections of the state.
‘Why privatise when SCCL is profitable?’
“Can anyone from the Centre dare to reason the need for privatising SCCL when it is setting records in terms of production, profits and Plant Load Factor (PLF)?” he said.
BRS’s working president said, “The centre is conspiring to push Singareni, which is currently reaping profits, into losses by not allocating the coal mines. The Centre sold many Public Sector Units (PSU) which made profits. Vizag Steel Plant (VSP) was also pushed into losses by not allocating mines to it”.
KTR slams PM Modi
He informed that the chief minister and BRS president K Chandrashekar Rao had already written to the centre stating that the coal mines needed for SCCL be allocated to it.

Adding that Singareni Employees have also placed the same demand he accused, “Though the state urged the union government for the past several years for the allocation of the mines to Singareni, the centre turned a deaf ear to it. This is despite the allocation of a large number of Lignite mines to Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation (GMDC) through nomination”.
The minister alleged, “The prime minister who was generous towards Gujarat, discriminated against the progressive Telangana. PM Narendra Modi who visited Ramagundam on November 11, 2022, assured that Singareni would not be privatised. But the PM did not stand by his promise. How would Modi respond to it during his next visit to the state?”
‘SCCL privatisation – an attempt to gut agriculture and mar CM KCR’: KTR
KTR termed the privatisation of the SCCL as an ‘attempt to mar CM KCR’s determination’ to provide 24-hour free electricity to farmers. He also alleged that the centre is trying to force the farmers to rely on bores for farming again.
“Singareni plays a crucial role in thermal power generation in the State and provides high-quality power to agricultural needs, industries, and domestic requirements, the Centre is creating obstacles to this,” he said.
“The centre is not able to digest the appreciation Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project has been receiving and it is plotting to deprive the lift irrigation projects of power supply,” he further said.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 6, 2023
Telangana: Revanth asks SCCL employees to elect Congress

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Hyderabad: Telangana Congress chief A Revanth Reddy has urged employees of the Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) to vote for Congress in regaining power so that their problems can be resolved.
He asked SCCL personnel and the general public to beg individuals who have been shouting from the rooftops that they have battled for and obtained a separate state for Telangana to stand down for a moment.
The Congress leader stated that once Congress takes power in the state, all of the problems that the SCCL employees were experiencing would be resolved. While on his Haath Se Haath Jodo Padayatra, he told SCCL employees in Yellendu Mandal in Bhadradri-Kothagudem district that the Congress was opposed to the privatisation of the Singareni Collieries Company Ltd.
Revanth stated that the state government was exploiting employees by outsourcing them rather than hiring them full-time. He recalled SCCL employees playing an important part in the foundation of Telangana state. “However, the BRS government had sacked 30,000 employees over a period of time,” he said.
The TPCC leader stated that Congress battled against SCCL privatisation in Parliament. He said that SCCL owed GENCO Rs 12,000 crore but was unable to pay even employee salaries.
Revanth argued that the primary issue with the SSCL was its current chairman and managing director, N Sridhar. He questioned how the government could keep a managing director who had a criminal record in that position.
He claimed that when Congress took office in 10 months, one of the first documents it would sign was a request for an investigation into SCCL’s irregularities and the imprisonment of those responsible. He insisted that the SCCL start underground mining in order to create jobs.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 12, 2023