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HYDERABAD
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has expressed superior interest implicit the deteriorating information of Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) nether the Congress Government, alleging that the institution has go a hub of scams and fiscal mismanagement.
Addressing the State enforcement gathering of the Telangana Boggu Gani Karmika Sangham (TBGKS) affiliated to BRS present connected Tuesday, elder person of the enactment T. Harish Rao said that Singareni, erstwhile considered the pridefulness and wealthiness of Telangana, was present pushed into situation owed to the Congress Government’s policies.
While the erstwhile BRS Government had revived Singareni by recruiting astir 19,000 workers connected compassionate grounds and regular recruitment, the Congress Government was weakening the organisation and threatening the existing jobs. “Providing jobs was the docket of BRS, portion removing jobs has go the task of the Congress,” helium remarked.
He pointed retired that dues payable to Singareni had accrued alarmingly nether the Congress regularisation arsenic the authorities and powerfulness utilities’ dues pending to Singareni stood lone astatine ₹2,000 crore successful 2014 and aboriginal reached to astir ₹7,000 crore during the BRS regime. However, successful conscionable two-and-a-half years of Congress rule, the dues payable to Singareni had risen to astir ₹21,000 crore, helium pointed out.
Mr. Harish Rao explained that the dues successful lieu of vigor proviso to the Discoms unsocial had crossed ₹20,000 crore and said that the institution was being pushed into Overdraft (OD) contempt maintaining beardown fixed deposits once. “The State Government OD is astir ₹3,200 crore, portion Singareni’s OD has crossed ₹4,000 crore”, helium noted.
The erstwhile curate besides raised superior questions regarding ember banal figures shown connected the authoritative Singareni website. He stated that the website showed availability of 40 lakh metric tonnes of ember banal and income taxation was besides paid based connected the reported gross from that stock. He sought to cognize the whereabouts of ember worthy astir ₹1,600 crore (at ₹4,000 per tonne) and suggested TBGKS to question the absorption implicit the issue.
Appeal to Kishan Reddy
The BRS leaders demanded that Union Coal Minister G. Kishan Reddy disclose details regarding the missing ember banal and marque nationalist the findings of the committee reportedly constituted by the Centre aft BRS raised allegations of corruption successful ember mines.
On the authorities determination to determination up with a star powerfulness task successful Jaisalmer adjacent the Pakistan borderline successful concern with Rajasthan, Mr. Harish Rao asked wherefore the authorities was rushing up with star projects successful faraway places (States) adjacent earlier approvals for elaborate task study and powerfulness acquisition agreement.
President of the TBGKS and erstwhile curate Koppula Eshwar said the commercialized national would contention unsocial without immoderate confederation successful the elections to beryllium held to take recognised commercialized union.
