Overview
- Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka said the state will set up a committee to align Singareni workers’ facilities with Coal India norms and will back housing support, with medical invalidation issues to be expedited.
- SCCL reported its highest-ever profit of ₹6,394 crore in 2024–25, with 34% profit share amounting to ₹802 crore paid to workers and ₹5,500 each to outsourced personnel.
- The Telangana government reported 2,539 posts filled at SCCL since taking office, including 798 external recruits and 1,741 compassionate appointments.
- Union Coal Minister G. Kishan Reddy urged higher productivity and better coal quality, rejected privatisation claims, highlighted a zero-accident push with ₹1 crore insurance for 4 lakh miners, and noted import cuts worth about ₹60,000 crore last year.
- SCCL CMD D. Krishna Bhaskar warned that production costs remain higher than rivals and said survival depends on delivering quality coal at competitive prices as power producers can now buy from any supplier.