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Kothagudem: A retired SCCL employee allegedly committed suicide by jumping to death from a bridge on Murredu stream in the town on Monday. The deceased was identified as Kondapaka Satyanarayana (65), a resident of Vidyanagar Colony in Chunchupalli mandal, Kothagudem town, after serving in SCCL at Manugur in the district. The reasons for his extreme […]

Hyderabad: The BJP government at the Centre continued with its rigid stance on its decision to auction four coal blocks in SCCL area in Telangana, despite repeated requests by the State government to stop the auction. Coal Minister Prahlad Joshi, defending the Union government’s decision to auction the coal blocks, said on Monday that it […]

Hyderabad: The unions at Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) have decided to meet Union Coal and Mines Minister Pralhad Joshi next week requesting withdrawal of the Centre’s move to auction four coal blocks in Singareni. The meeting is to step up pressure on the Central government to withdraw the auction proposal. If the Centre fails […]

Hyderabad: Accusing the Central government of continuing with its discrimination of Telangana State, TRS MLAs demanded that the BJP government withdraw it plans to auction four coal blocks in Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL). Despite Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao personally writing a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to auction the coal blocks […]

Hyderabad: With the 72-hour strike by the employees of Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) coming to an end on Saturday, the management requested them to join duty from Sunday since the SCCL has suffered a loss of Rs.120 crore during the strike period. Since 4.5 lakh tonnes of coal production was affected in the last […]

Hyderabad: State unit of Congress party has extended its support to the 72-hour strike by Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) employees in protest against the Central government’s move to privatise four coal blocks in the region. TPCC president A Revanth Reddy, in a statement here on Friday said: “Even during Covid-19 pandemic, SCCL generated revenues […]

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to immediately stall the auction of four coal blocks belonging to Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) by the Union Coal Ministry. In a letter to the Prime Minister, Chandrashekhar Rao said SCCL was playing a key role in meeting the coal […]

Hyderabad: Amid reports of coal shortage in the country, the Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) has asked the area general managers (GMs) to work collectively to achieve the production targets in the current financial year. At a review meeting conducted with GMs through video conference, SCCL directors S Chandrashekar, N Balaram and D Satyanarayana said […]

Peddapalli: Trade unions at Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) have decided to launch a 72-hour strike from December 9 across its coal mines in protest against the Central government’s decision to privatise four coal blocks. All the trade unions including national unions organised a meeting in Godavarikhani on Tuesday in this regard and formed a […]

Hyderabad: Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) on Friday placed a deputy manager and two supervisors under suspension holding them responsible for roof collapse incident in underground mine of SCCL’s SRP 3 and 3A incline at Srirampur in Macherial district a few days ago. A charge-memo was issued to the mine manager in connection with the […]

Khammam: District Collector VP Gautham directed the officials to speed up the works to rehabilitate the villagers evacuated by SCCL’s Kistaram opencast mine in the district. The Collector on Thursday visited Cherukupalli village where rehabilitation works were underway to relocate as many as 107 evacuees of Jagannadhapuram village of Sathupalli mandal in the district as […]

Mancherial: As many as 45 miners were killed, while 745 workers sustained critical wounds and 755 had minor injuries in 38 accidents reported at underground mines and opencast projects (OCPs) belonging to Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) located in six districts from 2017 to 2021. As per data available with the State-owned coal company, the […]

Mancherial: In a tragic incident, four coal miners died when coal caved in on them when they were excavating coal inside of the SRP3 underground mine in Srirampur town on Wednesday. A rescue operation was on to bring out the miners who were trapped under debris of the coal. According to officials of SCCL, the […]

Hyderabad: Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) had decided to start mining operations in the new open cast projects (OCPs) – GDK open cast, Naini coal block in Odisha and JVR OCP – by the end of this financial year. It has also decided to open five new OCPs in various divisions during the next financial […]

Hyderabad: Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) Chairman and Managing Director N Sridhar on Tuesday said the SCCL achieved a record 68 per cent growth in coal transport and 60 per cent growth in production in the last seven months in this financial year compared to last year. The increase in coal production and transport ensured […]

Kothagudem: Security guards and rescue team members of Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL), conducted a motorbike rally at Rudrampur here on Tuesday to create awareness on helmet use. The rally was organised under the aegis of Kothagudem Area S&PC Department, the company’s security wing. Speaking on the occasion the special officer to GM, Koti Reddy […]

Hyderabad: With nation facing a coal crisis and the Centre hinting at procuring coal from Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL), Telangana State Planning Board chairman B Vinod Kumar asserted that the coal produced from Thadicherla mines should be strictly utilised for the nearby thermal power plant at Bhupalpally. He said that the Centre should not […]

Khammam: Farmers whose lands were being acquired for SCCL opencast (OC) mine at Rejarla in Sathupalli have demanded better compensation for their lands as per market rate. A group of farmers led by Sathupalli MLA S Venkata Veeraiah met Collector VP Gautham here on Thursday and submitted a memorandum in support of their demand. The […]

Hyderabad: Amid reports of shortage of power supply in several States because of dip in coal supplies, Energy Minister G Jagadish Reddy on Tuesday said power supply in the State will continue without any outages to all its consumers.Stating that Telangana has coal reserves sufficient for over 200 years, he said there was no scope […]

Hyderabad: Telangana’s stellar performance continued in the power sector with TSGenco and Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) ranked one and two in power generation with Plant Load Factor (PLF) in the country. While national average of PLF is 54 per cent, Telangana’s PLF is 72 per cent for the financial year 2020-21, according to TSGenco […]