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Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka accused the BRS and BJP of ‘jointly conspiring’ against the Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) to weaken the nationalist assemblage miner for benefitting backstage entities of their prime arsenic portion of a ‘secret pact’.
“These conspiracies led to a monolithic nonaccomplishment of gross to the SCCL,” helium alleged, reiterating his complaint that it was the BRS authorities that prevented the SCCL from participating successful ember artifact auctions.
“The SCCL had mislaid 2 ember blocks successful the Godavari vale ember tract successful the past and the BRS dispensation was solely liable for this,” Mr. Vikramarka said portion addressing a nationalist gathering successful Mancherial precocious connected Saturday evening.
The Deputy CM handed implicit compassionate assignment letters to 335 eligible dependents of medically invalidated employees/workers of the SCCL connected the occasion, sources said.
Ministers D. Sridhar Babu, Ponnam Prabhakar and Adluri Laxman Kumar, Peddapalli MP Gaddam Vamsi Krishna among others were present.
Mr. Vikramarka said the Congress authorities is committed to the payment of the SCCL workforce.
He said, “Implementation of landmark payment schemes specified arsenic ₹1.25 crore Accident Insurance Scheme for the SCCL employees stands grounds to the people’s government’s payment initiatives.”
Mr. Vikramarka deed retired astatine BRS leaders accusing them of exploiting the SCCL during their astir decade-long rule.
He took a swipe astatine BRS person T. Harish Rao alleging that the second was spreading mendacious propaganda against the Congress government.
He alleged that the SCCL was prevented from obtaining ember blocks that rightfully belonged to it. The SCCL had mislaid Koyagudem Block III and Sattupalli Block III some bearing an estimated ember reserves of 67 cardinal tonnes and 32 cardinal tonnes respectively. The marketplace worth of these ember reserves is estimated to beryllium ₹29,106 crore and ₹10,032 crore. The imaginable nett nonaccomplishment for the SCCL owed to the nonaccomplishment of these 2 ember blocks is estimated to beryllium astir ₹19,360 crore and ₹2,624 crore, helium said.
“I had formally requested Union Coal Minister G. Kishan Reddy to reallocate these ember blocks to the SCCL arsenic the backstage allottees had failed to commence mining operations wrong the stipulated period,” Mr. Vikramarka said, accusing Mr. Kishan Reddy of failing to unafraid these blocks to the SCCL.
Earlier, the Deputy CM laid the instauration chromatic for improvement works worthy ₹70 crore astatine the celebrated Sri Satyanarayana Swamy temple astatine Gudemgutta successful Dandepally mandal.
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