The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) will hold a public meeting for Singareni workers in Ramagundam on October 14, former Telangana minister T Harish Rao said at a press conference in Hyderabad on Thursday. The meeting will focus on demands related to profit-sharing, pending payments, trade union elections, medical boards, dependent employment and housing rights.
Harish Rao made the announcement after meeting representatives of the Telangana Boggu Gani Karmika Sangham and elected representatives from Singareni areas at Telangana Bhavan. He said the proposed Singareni Karmika Garjana would bring workers’ concerns into the public domain and warned that the BRS was prepared to launch a direct agitation to protect the company and its employees.
Among the demands listed by the BRS leader is payment of the workers’ full share in Singareni profits before the Dasara festival. Harish Rao said the previous BRS government had provided workers with a 32% share of profits, but claimed that the share had since declined. He also demanded that medical boards be conducted regularly and that eligible candidates receive jobs under the dependent employment system.
The former minister called for immediate elections to Singareni’s trade unions and the clearance of pending dues. He alleged that Singareni had faced serious operational and administrative problems since the Congress government came to power, and claimed that employees and officials had also been forced to stage protests. These claims were made at the press conference and were not independently verified in the report.
Harish Rao cited company profit figures of ₹2,022 crore in 2022-23, ₹4,712 crore in 2023-24 and ₹6,394 crore in 2024-25. He claimed that profits in the current year were expected to fall below ₹1,800 crore, attributing the alleged decline to administrative decisions, delayed tenders, contracting practices, corruption and favouritism. The report did not include a response from the state government or Singareni management to these allegations.
He also said worker productivity had improved, with output per man-shift rising from 6.39 tonnes to 7.56 tonnes. At the same time, he claimed that coal production had declined from 70 million tonnes in 2023-24 to 58 million tonnes in 2025-26, and sought an explanation from Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka.
Another major issue raised by the BRS concerns payments allegedly owed to Singareni by the Telangana government and TG Genco. Harish Rao put the accumulated dues at nearly ₹50,000 crore and questioned the need for additional borrowing when profits were being retained in banks. The report did not provide an official confirmation of the amount.
Housing rights are also expected to be part of the campaign. Harish Rao referred to Government Order 76, issued in 2019 by the previous BRS government to facilitate ownership rights for Singareni workers. He alleged that the Congress government had subsequently kept several properties on the prohibited list and demanded that eligible workers receive ownership rights through sale deeds.
The October 14 meeting will determine the next phase of the BRS’s campaign on Singareni, including its demands over workers’ benefits, company finances, ownership rights and the public-sector status of the coal producer.
