KARIMNAGAR/KHAMMAM
The 48-hour pan-India strike called by the joint forum of central trade unions in protest against the Centre’s policies “detrimental” to the interests of workers across sectors hit normal life in various parts of the State’s industrial areas, affecting coal production in the Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL)‘s coal mines on the first day of the two-day nationwide strike on Monday.
An overwhelming number of coal workers struck work in support of the strike in all the 11 areas of the State-owned SCCL during the first shift. About 88% of the total 28,084 men on roll in the first shift did not report for duty across the SCCL’s coalfields spanning the erstwhile composite Karimnagar, Khammam, Warangal and Adilabad districts, sources said.
