KCR's Family Interfering With Singareni Affairs: Kishan Reddy

Union Minister for Tourism & Culture G Kishan Reddy today alleged that the interference of CM K Chandrashekar Rao's family in the affairs of the State government-owned Singereni Collieries (SCCL) had gone up.

He alleged that SCCL had become a "pocket company" of the ruling party leaders, and that the officials of the company were being forced to visit the houses of the BRS MLAs even for small works.

Even the duty shifts of the workers were being done at the instance of the ruling party leaders, Reddy claimed.

He also alleged that the leaders of the company were carrying out a false campaign that the union government was going to privatise it.

Reddy said that KCR remembered the Singereni workers only when there were any elections in the State. Pointing out that the CM had promised that his government would make Singereni a global name, he asked the CM what happened to that promise. He also lamented that the number of permanent employees in the company was gradually coming down, from 62,000 in 2014 to 43,000 now, and that the BRS government had effectively chopped around 20,000 jobs in the company, as shown by the fact that the number of the contract employees of the company had gone up from 14,000 in 2014 to 30,000 now. He added that the CM was also tellingly repeatedly ignoring the demand of the contract workers of the company to be made permanent.

He also alleged that the CM had failed to keep his promise of building houses for all the Singereni workers.