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HYDERABAD
Working president of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) K.T. Rama Rao has demanded that Union Minister of Coal G. Kishan Reddy bid an enquiry into the ember banal ‘scam’ successful Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) with a sitting justice arsenic it would severely interaction the institution financially.
In a missive addressed to the Union Minister connected Friday, the BRS person said the ember banal scam was worthy ₹1,600 crore and alleged that the Congress leaders were conspiring to throttle SCCL with the ember banal scam by siphoning disconnected ember banal worthy ₹1,600 crore. There was nary relationship of 40 lakh tonnes of ember being shown arsenic stocked astatine 7 mines of the company. The institution had paid ember cess and income taxation for the ember but determination was nary banal physically.
He stated that till April-end ember banal of 7.2 lakh tonnes astatine Mandamarri, 8 lakh tonnes astatine Srirampur, 6 lakh tonnes astatine Ramagundam-I, 4 lakh tonnes astatine Ramagundam-II, 5.4 lakh tonnes astatine Bhupalapalli, 3.5 lakh tonnes astatine Yellandu, 2 lakh tonnes astatine Sattupalli and the remaining retired of 40 lakh tonnes banal astatine a fewer different mines was shown successful the records but it was not recovered determination astatine the mines physically.
The hold successful accomplishment of inspection authorities from the Coal Ministry to cheque the banal successful April and the hold successful checking of banal by the CAG authorities was besides giving suspicious to respective doubts. The workers and employees of SCCL were of the presumption that the Central and State governments were manus successful mitt successful the missing ember stock, helium alleged.
Mr. Rama Rao demanded that the Coal Ministry could nonstop an all-party squad to SCCL to cheque the ember banal if it was sincere connected the issue. Even a committee acceptable up by the Centre connected the alleged irregularities successful tenders successful Singareni had not submitted its study truthful far, helium said.
Mr. Rama Rao alleged that the Congress authorities successful the State had besides unveiled a scam by cancelling the strategy of procuring diesel from the Indian Oil Corporation straight for SCCL needs. Even successful the acquisition of explosives, the SCCL had paid 30% higher costs compared to Coal India, helium alleged.
