HYDERABAD: BRS leader T. Harish Rao has written to Union Minister for Coal and Mines G. Kishan Reddy, seeking a CBI probe into alleged irregularities in Singareni Collieries Company Limited, a public-sector undertaking.
Harish Rao sought urgent intervention of the Union Minister in what he called serious and continuing irregularities in Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL), including arbitrary policy changes, cancellation of competitively awarded contracts from the previous BRS government period, and the disturbing silence of Central government-nominated Directors on the SCCL Board. He alleged that all of this together points to a possible larger nexus and ongoing financial loss to a vital public sector undertaking.
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader wrote that after the change of the Telangana state government in 2024, SCCL introduced a so-called "Site Visit Certificate" system as a mandatory precondition for participation in tenders. This system has no precedent in the history of Singareni and is not followed by Coal India Limited or Western Coalfields Limited.