Congress MP seeks inquiry into all SCCL contracts since 2014

Congress Member of Parliament Chamala Kiran Kumar Reddy urged Union Minister for Coal and Mines G. Kishan Reddy to bid a broad probe into each tenders executed by the Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) from 2014 to date, citing the request to support transparency and nationalist involvement successful the prestigious nationalist assemblage undertaking.

In a missive addressed to the Union Minister, helium welcomed the Centre’s swift effect to the contention surrounding the Naini ember block, peculiarly the constitution of a two-member enquiry committee. However, helium cautioned against limiting the probe lone to the cancellation of the Naini ember artifact tender.

The MP demanded that the enquiry beryllium expanded to screen each tenders, contracts, and authoritative decisions taken successful Singareni implicit the past decade, including those finalised during the erstwhile government’s tenure, arsenic good arsenic tender processes presently nether way.

Arguing for a deeper probe, Mr Reddy said that immoderate irregularities successful tender allocations implicit the past 10 years indispensable beryllium brought to the announcement of the radical of Telangana to safeguard the semipermanent interests of Singareni, which plays a captious relation successful the State’s system and employment.

Only a broad probe would reconstruct nationalist assurance and guarantee fairness successful the PSUs' operations, helium said.