The jobs bowl of Northern Telangana, Singareni Collieries, is rapidly drying up with employment tumbling.
Singareni colleries are spread over the four districts of Telangana. These mines have provided the gainful employement to youths of backward regions.
In 1991, these coal mines are owned by Central and State used to accommodate 1.71lakh employees, but now this has decline to only 60,000.
Even the staff strength is plummeting, the growing trend of contract and outsourcing employee also smashing the hopes of the youth in this large area. According to sources the contract and outsourcing employee constitute of 30% of the total employment.
The management of Singareni Collieries, despite being a signatory to the wage agreement, refuses to effect an upward revision in the wages for contract workers. The contract workers are denied even bonus.
Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao recently reviewed the functioning of Singareni Collieries and said the the Telangana government is keen to provide best facilities to the employees.