Coal production affected badly in SCCL

Coal mines wore deserted look as most of the workers did not attend duties in response to the call given for a day –long nationwide strike in east part of the Adilabad district.

National trade unions gave call for strike in protest against the alleged anti- workers and employees policies being adopted by the Central government.

As many as 26,000 workers did not attend to their duties. Officers, however, did not participate in the strike and it is estimated that the strike affected 45,000 tonnes of coal production worth Rs 16 crore in the Adilabad district. Both underground and opencast coal miners actively participated in the strike in all the coal mines.

Members of AITUC, INTUC, CITU, HMS and IFTU actively participated in the strike while the participation of the members of recognized trade union Telangana Boggugani Karmika Sangham (TBGKS) in the strike was nominal as the leaders of same organization asked its members not to participate in the strike till the last hour.

Trade union leaders Vasireddy Seetharamaih, Gunda Mallesh of AITUC, Riyaz Ahmed of HMS, Venkatrao of INTUC, T. Srinivas and Venkateshwarlu of both the groups of IFTU and Thummala Rajireddy of CITU and others participated in the strike and took out rallies in the coal belt area.

According to sources, the strike affected total 1.5 lakh tones coal production worth Rs 42 crore in 32 underground and 16 opencast mines in the Singareni Collieries Company Limited ( SCCL) spread in Adilabad, Karimnagar, Warangal and Khammam and workers incurred Rs 17 crore  worth loss of wages by participating the strike.