Hyderabad sources have stated that Telangana Political JAC chairman Prof. Kodandaram has warned the State and Union governments not to play games with the lives of the Singareni workers and he has stated that the Singareni workers, who has created history by producing record level coal in a year for several times, number has decreased from 1.20lakh to Rs.55,000.
Kodandaram was addressing the Singareni Collieries Contract Workers Union which was an affiliated union of IFTU, state conference was held at ECE Auditorium in Osmania University here on Sunday and Kodandaram has alleged that the number has decreased to half its original number due to negligent attitude of governments.
Meanwhile IFTU national president Sadineni Venkateshwarlu has said that they will take up an agitation at Janthar Manthar in New Delhi on August 1 on Singareni workers across the nation and has demanded the State and Central governments to pay HPC salaries to the contract workers stopping negligent attitude towards contract workers in Singareni.
Venkateswarlu has also demanded regularization of contract employees working in Singareni and pay arrears pending from January 2013 and another IFTU leader M Srinivas has said that the Singareni workers’ problems will be solved only with the movements.
