Continuing the tempo of its unrelenting attack on the Centre in the matter of State’s interests, Telangana Minister for IT and Industries K.T. Rama Rao has written to Union Coal Minister Prahlad Joshi alleging that the Centre is conspiring to privatise Singareni Collieries Company Ltd and auction of four Singareni coal blocks is part of that.
In the letter addressed to Mr. Joshi on Monday, Mr. Rama Rao said the Centre’s decision to auction four coal blocks in Telangana was nothing short of auctioning the future of thousands of coal workers in the open market. Suggesting the Coal Ministry to stop its plans to auction Singareni coal blocks, he said they be removed from the auction list as was done in the case of some States including Gujarat.
