Singareni Retired Employees Association has requested Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao to provide medicines to the needy retired employees of the Singareni Collieries Company Limited living in different parts of the State as most of them have been living in penury in the absence of pension worth of any mention.
In a letter addressed to the Chief Minister, president of the association D. Ramchander Rao has stated that a majority of the coal mine pensioners in the country are getting paltry pension starting from ₹350 a month. He stated that the number of Singareni pensioners is about 80,000 and about half of them are getting only up to ₹5,000 a month with a majority even among the half getting less that ₹2,000 a month.
As a result, they were not in a position to meet even their basic medical expenses. Mr. Ramchander Rao said and added that most of the pensioners live in Hyderabad, Khammam, Warangal and Karimnagar and are suffering age-related, diabetic, blood pressure and other ailments.
