Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao has announced 27% share to the Singareni workers in the profit made by Singareni Collieries Company Limited during the Financial year 2017-18. The CM instructed the Singareni Chairman & Managing Director that the share should be increased to 27% from 25% given last year.
The CM also said that the Performance Related Pay (PRP) which has been due for the last 8 years to Singareni officers should also be paid immediately. CM assured the Singareni Company officers that the Government would allot land to them in Hyderabad for house building. CM further announced Rs. 10 lakhs interest free loan facility to officers and other employees for house building on par with Singareni workers. CM suggested that hence forth the Singareni workers are to be addressed as employees without discriminating them from other staff. The CM said that the approach of separating management and workers as two different entities has to be done away forthwith and all should be treated as one single family of Singareni.
The coal mines Officers Association members and TBGKS leaders met the Chief Minister at Pragathi Bhawan on Wednesday afternoon led by TBGKS Honorary Chairperson and MP Kavitha. On the occasion, the Singareni Officers presented a cheque for Rs 1 crore to the CM Relief Fund for the welfare of ex-armed personnel.
The CM had a brief meeting with the representatives of Singareni officers and workers. They had conveyed their thanks to the Chief Minister for fulfilling the earlier promises made to the Singareni Employees. They further mentioned few more issues. The CM on these also positively responded and announced decisions immediately.
“Singareni has experiences and expertise of 120 plus years in mining. Even in adverse circumstances and in different climates it has a knack to deliver goods. With the huge experience behind it in extracting coal from underground, the Singareni organization should move forward with added encouragement. The organization should expand itself to other mining areas.
Already the organization has entered Thermal and Solar Power production arenas. Its expertise should be utilized to extract the sand reserves and granite reserves which are available in abundance in the State. The Government is also thinking to entrust the responsibility of mining in Bayyaram Mines to Singareni Corporation. The Singareni should come out with a study paper on the areas into which it can diversify itself. The Singareni should expand multifariously into different areas utilizing its experience, expertise and working methodology’ said the Chief Minister.
Ministers Thummala Nageswara Rao, Eatela Rajender, MP Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy, Khammam ZP Chairperson Gadipally Kavitha, TBGKS President and Secretary Venkat Rao, Raji Reddy, Coal Mines officer’s association Singareni branch President Gadipally Krishna Prasad, General Secretary S.V Rajashekhar Rao, other leaders T Srinivas Rao, Pathangi Mohan Rao, Samudrala Srinivas, Jana Jay Rao, AV Reddy, Manchala Srinivas, Gitla Tirupathi Reddy, J. Rajashekhar Rao etc participated in the meeting. (NSS)
