Brief reports from Telangana: Singareni worker dies in mine due to heart stroke
Singareni worker dies of heart stroke in Godavarikhani
Peddapalli: A Singareni contract worker died, reportedly of a heart stroke, in the Vakeelpalli coal mine in Ramagundam-II of Godavarikhani.
A welder, Janagama Sharma, who complained about pain in his chest, collapsed while discharging duties in the mine on Friday night. Colleagues immediately shifted him to the Godavarikhani Singareni area hospital where he was declared brought dead by the doctors. A resident of KCR colony, Godavarikhani, Sharma is survived by his wife and a daughter
IFTU activists staged a protest at the hospital mortuary demanding justice to the kin of the deceased worker, stating that he was under immense work pressure. Stating that Sharma died due to negligence of the Singareni management, they found fault with the management for not taking safety precautions. Though Sharma was in the morning shift, he was forced to work up to 9 pm in the night. Though he developed a heart stroke and died due to work pressure, management was trying to project the death as a normal one, they said, demanding that the management take action against the officials responsible for Sharma’s death.
They demanded an ex gratia of Rs 50 lakh and a Singareni job to one of Sharma’s family members.
Minor drowned in Godavari
Kothagudem: A 11-year-old boy drowned in the river Godavari at Bhadrachalam in the district on Saturday.
The boy, Karthik of Khammam, along with four others, had stepped into the river at the bathing ghats to have a bath but drowned as he could not gauge the water depth. Local photographers, who spotted the boys struggling to come out of the waters, rushed to their rescue and saved them. However, Karthik had drowned by then. One of the four boys was shifted to a local hospital as his condition was serious while the three others were safe. Karthik along with his family came to Burgampad to attend a marriage.
Dispute over ownership of cows reaches police station
Khammam: A roaming herd of cows has triggered an unending dispute between two villages in Penuballi mandal here. Residents of the two villages approached the police claiming ownership of the herd on Saturday.
According to the police, the dispute among the villagers of Somla Naik thanda and Ramachander Rao Banjar in the mandal was going on for the last 10 days over the ownership of the cows, which were moving around both the villages for grazing.As the villagers lodged complaints with VM Banjar police against each other, the police advised them to settle the dispute in the presence of the elders in their respective villages.
However, the villagers did not agree to that, saying that they already approached the village elders to settle the dispute but a solution could not be found. The police then asked them to leave the cows in the Ring Centre at VM Banjar, reasoning that the cows would reach the house of the actual owners on their own. However, even this did not work out with the villagers picking up an argument again even after the cows were left in the Ring Centre. Each of the villagers started claiming ownership of the cows.
This led to a traffic disruption at the centre for a while, forcing the police to intervene again. Though the police managed to disperse the villagers and make them return to their homes, the ownership dispute remains unsolved.
