KTR writes to Union Coal Minister, urges to stop coal blocks’ auction
The Hindu
Industries Minister says it’s part of conspiracy to force SCCL into losses, privatise it
Continuing the tempo of its unrelenting attack on the Centre in the matter of State’s interests, Telangana Minister for IT and Industries K.T. Rama Rao has written to Union Coal Minister Prahlad Joshi alleging that the Centre is conspiring to privatise Singareni Collieries Company Ltd and auction of four Singareni coal blocks is part of that.
In the letter addressed to Mr. Joshi on Monday, Mr. Rama Rao said the Centre’s decision to auction four coal blocks in Telangana was nothing short of auctioning the future of thousands of coal workers in the open market. Suggesting the Coal Ministry to stop its plans to auction Singareni coal blocks, he said they be removed from the auction list as was done in the case of some States including Gujarat.
After the conspiracy to mortgage the farmers’ future to corporate companies with the help of farm laws the Centre was now planning to ruin the future of Singareni workers by deciding to auction four coal blocks in Telangana – Sathupalli-6, Kalyan Khani-6, Shravanapalli OC and Koyagudem-3 having estimated 480.7 million tonnes coal reserves.