The management of Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) has regularised the service of 2,266 ‘badli’ workers, those who are engaged by the company in place of regular workers on their temporary absence from duties, by issuing them with appointment letters as general mazdoors.
The appointment orders were issued by Director (Personnel and Finance) N. Balaram on Saturday. The badli workers who have put in at least 190 days in underground mines and 240 days in opencast mines and other wings were given the appointment letters. They would be treated as general mazdoors with the retrospective effect from September 1 this year.
According to the SCCL authorities, a total of 13,981 badli workers were regularised as general mazdoors since 2017. They stated that the process used to take long time (years) in the past but since 2017 the badli workers were being regularised every year on qualifying for the same as per the muster registers.
