The Singareni management should be held responsible for the death of a VTC trainee and two officers in the accident where the coal slide and roof collapse of the Singareni Adria Long Wall project ...
Civil liberties committee, Telangana ......
Civil liberties committee, Telangana, on 11th March 2022 visited the area and conducted a fact-finding regarding the death of the coal miners of the Singareni Adria Long Wall Project...
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Seven workers of the Singareni Colleries Company Limited (Public Sector Undertaking), Peddapelli District Rama Giri Zone, Ramagundam Division 3, under Adriyala Long Wall Project were trapped in the accident on March 7, 2022, at 1:30 pm due to coal sliding and roof collapse. Singareni Rescue Team saved only four officers. A VTC trainee and two officers were lost their lives.
Details were gathered by the Civil liberties committee, Telangana jointly with the Civil liberties committees of Karimnagar and Adilabad Districts on 11 March 2022 after meeting with ALP Collieries Manager, Brahmaji & Adria Project Area, SO to GM Medical, ALP Workers and leaders of the worker's unions.
Adriyala Long Wall Project Mine Workers got down to perform their duties in the first shift on March 7, 2022, 1st Seam, 86 Level RA 3 and Badili Worker Ravinder, FBL (Front Bucket Loader) Operator Venkateshwarlu, Over man Naveen, Support men Virayya, VTC Trainee Tota Srikanth also went there under the supervision of Area Safety Officer Jayaraj, Assistant Manager Chaitanya Teja. At about 1:30 pm, the colliries manager noticed an unexpected noise coming from the work area and alerted the workers. In the blink of an eye he also ran as the coal side wall of 30mts length,3mts height and 5mts breadth collapsed with a loud noise. Virayya, Madhu, Shashi (Badili workers)who are act as support men escaped with minor injuries as following of manager warnings.
Support men Ravinder, area safety Officer Jayarj, Assistant Manager Chaitanya Teja, FBL (Front Bucket Loader) Operator Venkateshwarlu, Over man Naveen, VTC Trainee Tota Srikanth were trapped in the collapsed coal. Rescue team reached the scene at around 6 pm that evening. Operator Jadi Venkatesh who was trapped in the FBL cabin was spotted when he horn .Overman Naveen who was trapped near FBL was brought out the same night at about twelve o'clock. Ravinder, who had been screaming on Tuesday morning while the rest were being retrieved, was taken out at around 3.30pm.
Rescue teams recovered the dead bodies of Chaitanya Teja, Jayaraj and VTC trainee Srikanth on Wednesday morning, March 9, 2022.
The state of-the-art ALP mine in Asia was opened in 2008. This is the first time since then that such a big accident has happened.
The ALP mine currently employs 1400 permanent and 600 contract workers. According to the Mining Act the management should not take work from VTC trainees . In contrast, Thota Srikanth who was engaged as a fitter helper in the mine on the last day of his VTC training. Officers Jayaraj and Teja and Thota Srikanth were killed when the sidewall collapsed due to nausea and lack of protection by the private company GMMCO. Singareni company workers are engaged in work considering their safety. The incident took place as the private company in ALP neglected to prioritize the lives of the people and went on a profit hunt without proper protection. Singareni Public Sector Ownership provides the required support for private company profits. If privatization increases, it will become a habit to devalue the lives of workers ...
The upper part of the junction collapsed 15 days before the sidewall collapse. This is a sign of great danger. Management has neglected to maintain and correct it in a scientific manner. Management failed because the defence mechanism did not detect a sidewall collapse near it. These events were due to a change in management perspective as the privatization outsourcing of Singareni coal mines accelerated.
Political interference has been increased in Singareni after KCR came into power in 2014. CMD Sridhar has been instructing directors and area general managers with daily production targets.
Singareni workers officials are working with serious psychological concerns increasing the workload on supervisors and workers from top management through mine management. In addition to this, the Telangana Coal Workers' Union, which is affiliated to the TRS party as a recognized union, neglected the welfare of the workers. Singareni is donating thousands of crores of Singareni workers' money to the Telangana state government for the purchase of CCTV cameras in the name of a development fund and CSR fund for Telangana MLAs and MPs. Singareni workers are working like soldiers on the border at the border. In this horrible environment like this unannounced curfew, the workers are working for coal production. Mere protection is limited to paper. This ALP sidewall accident comes against the backdrop of CMD Sridhar's attitude of increasing work stress and workload. During his seven years and two months, nearly 65 workers died due to lack of protection. The Civil Liberties Committee of Telangana strongly condemns the failure of CMD Sridhar to visit the families of the mineworkers...
# Management should be responsible for the death of ALP workers.
# Privatization in Singareni and ALP should be stopped immediately. ..
Equal to # Jayaraju and Chaitanya, Thota Srikanth's death should be considered and his family should be given Rs 1 crore compensation and a permanent job.
# Management should abandon negligent attitude and conduct safety meetings in good faith.
# Take necessary steps to protect workers in the organization.
#. The Civil liberties committee demands that Telangana Chief Minister KCR and C &MD Sridhar, ALP visit the families of the deceased ...
Those involved in the fact-finding are....
1. Professor Gaddam Laxman, President, Civil liberties committee, Telangana.
2. N.Narayana Rao, General Secretary, Civil liberties committee, Telangana.
3. Madana Kumaraswamy, Assistant Secretary, Civil liberties committee, Telangana.
4..GAV Prasad, Chairman, Civil liberties committee, Joint Karimnagar District Committee.
5. Sripati Rajagopal, Vice-Chairman, Joint Committee on Civil liberties committee, Karimnagar District Committee.
6. Pulla Sucharitha, Assistant Secretary, Civil liberties committee, Joint Karimnagar District Committee.
7. Nara Vinod, Treasurer, Civil liberties committee, Joint Karimnagar District Committee.
8. Yadavaneni Mountains, EC Member, Civil liberties committee, Joint Karimnagar District Committee.
9. Pogula Rajesham, EC Member, Civil liberties committee, Joint Karimnagar District Committee.
10. Kada Rajanna, EC Member, Civil liberties committee Rights Association Joint Karimnagar District Committee.
11. Boddupelli Ravi, EC Member, Civil liberties committee Rights Association Joint Karimnagar District Committee.
12..Motapalukula Venkat, EC Member, Civil liberties committee Karimnagar District Committee.
13. Gaddam Sanjeev, EC Member, Civil liberties committee, Joint Karimnagar District Committee.
14. Budde Satyam, Convener, Civil liberties committee, Joint Adilabad District Committee.
15.A. Saraiya, Co-Convener, Civil liberties committee, Adilabad District Committee.
16.J.Posham, Co-Convener, Civil liberties committee, Joint Adilabad District Committee.
11 March 2022, Friday .3:45 pm.
Adria Project, Ramagiri Zone, Peddapelli-District. Telangana-State
