TRS govrnment cheating Singareni staff: Uttam

​Ramagundam: Accusing the TRS government of cheating Singareni employees, Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) President N Uttam Kumar Reddy has assured to resolve the problems being faced by the workers of the Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) if the Congress was voted to power.

The TPCC chief, along with Leader of Opposition in Council Shabbir Ali, ex-minister D Sridhar Babu, Makhan Singh and other leaders, had an interaction with the leaders of Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) on Monday morning at Yellandu Guest House in Godavarikhani. The INTUC leaders briefed the Congress leaders on various long-pending issues pertaining to Singareni workers. Uttam Kumar Reddy was in Ramagundam on Monday as part of the Congress Praja Chaitanya Yatra. 

Addressing a press conference later, Uttam Kumar Reddy said the Congress would regularise all contract workers of Singareni. He accused the TRS government of cheating the contract workers on the promise of regularisation. Similarly, he said Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao had cheated the SCCL workers on dependent jobs issue. He said the petitioner who approached the High Court against the dependent jobs was a leader of Telangana Jagruthi, the NGO of TRS MP and CM's daughter K Kavitha.

Therefore, he said, it was the TRS government which had indirectly stopped the implementation of the scheme in SCCL. Likewise, he said the problems of dismissed workers too remained unresolved.

Uttam said the Chief Minister had never given an appointment to union leaders to listen to their grievances. He said KCR, during 2014 elections, had promised to spend at least two hours in a week to interact with SCCL unions. However, he said, the Chief Minister had so far interacted with the SCCL employees' only twice - Once in 2014 and second time during the SCCL union elections.

The TPCC chief said the SCCL workers had played a major role not only in the formation of Telangana, but also in making KCR the Chief Minister. He said the TRS won almost all the seats in the coal belt in the last election. However, today all Singareni workers and their families were feeling cheated and betrayed. He said KCR had promised to sign the first file pertaining to Singareni workers' welfare. But even after four years, the government did nothing to resolve the pending issues, he added.