Ex-minister Harish Rao urges SCCL to hold Medical Board meetings regularly

Former Minister T Harish Rao accused the Congress government of attempting to abolish the dependent and compassionate job system by weakening the SCCL Medical Board. Alongside TBGKS leaders, he met SCCL officials in Hyderabad, demanding the reconvening of the Medical Board to validate employees seeking medical invalidation and provide jobs to their children.

Kothagudem: The Congress government was trying to abolish the dependent and compassionate job system by weakening the SCCL Medical Board, alleged former Minister T Harish Rao.

He, along with the Telangana Boggu Ghani Karmika Sangham (TBGKS) honorary president Koppula Eshwar, its state president Miryala Rajireddy and chief general secretary Kapu Krishna met the SCCL Director (Personnel, Administration and Welfare) Gowtham Potru at Singareni Bhavan in Hyderabad on Saturday.

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Harish Rao wanted the management to reconvene the Medical Board meeting held on November 24 and 25 to approve all eligible employees who opted for medical invalidation on health grounds to provide jobs to their children. Similarly the issue of aliases of the employees in company records had to be resolved to provide justice to those affected, he said.

Speaking to the media later, Harish Rao stated that the dependent job system, which was stopped in 1998 by the then government, was revived by former Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao during the BRS regime in 2018. As a result nearly 15,000 dependent jobs were given to the children of medically invalidated employees.

However, two years ago, in the SCCL trade union elections the Congress party promised that it would conduct two Medical Board meetings every month; offering 250 square yards of land and Rs 30 lakh interest-free loan to each employee to construct a house but failed to deliver these promises.

Instead of delivering the promises, the government was trying to abolish the Medical Board. Recognised union AITUC and representative union INTUC remained mute spectators to the government’s anti-worker policies, Harish Rao alleged.

He wanted the company to regularly conduct the Medical Board meetings. The TBGKS general secretary Surender Reddy, Bhupalpally area vice president Badithala Sammaiah and the employees whose medical invalidation applications were rejected by the Medical Board were present.