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BHADRADRI KOTHAGUDEM
Amid simmering contention implicit allegations of irregularities successful Singareni tenders, Union Minister of Coal and Mines G. Kishan Reddy held a important gathering with SCCL officials successful Kothagudem connected Saturday evening.
He arrived astatine the caput bureau of the State-owned company, arsenic portion of his maiden two-day sojourn to the ember town.
His sojourn to the ember municipality assumes value successful the backdrop of superior allegations of irregularities successful SCCL tenders by the main Opposition BRS, a complaint vehemently denied by the ruling Congress dispensation.
It comes amid vociferous demands by assorted quarters for a broad enquiry oregon CBI probe into the allegations.
SCCL Chairman and Managing Director D. Krishna Bhaskar, Directors of the authorities ember mining company, and elder officials of the Ministry of Coal, were present.
Sources said that the SCCL officials apprised the Union Minister of the area-wise show of the SCCL successful presumption of ember accumulation and proscription too the full gamut of its operations including aboriginal maturation plans.
The Union Minister is scheduled to interact with the representatives of the Singareni commercialized unions, ember contractors and different stakeholders successful abstracted meetings successful Kothagudem connected Sunday. He volition besides sojourn the Koyagudem opencast excavation successful Tekulapalli mandal to instrumentality banal of the overburden removal operations.
