Dependents’ scheme now in ‘compensatory’ format for SCCL polls

With the campaign for the Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) employees’ polls entering the home stretch, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday stepped in to provide some stimulus to th
Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao | Express
Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao | Express

HYDERABAD: With the campaign for the Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) employees’ polls entering the home stretch, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday stepped in to provide some stimulus to the ruling partybacked Telangana Boggu Gani Karmika Sangham (TBGKS). Hitting out at the Congress, TDP and CPI combine, which is canvassing for CPI-affiliated AITUC in the polls, the CM, in an attempt to woo the over 54,000 SCCL voters who will cast their vote on October 5, promised that the government would revive the dependent jobs scheme to kin of Singareni workers but as a “compensatory employment” scheme for dependents.

“In order to stand legal scrutiny, the government has decided to change the dependent employees’ scheme into this new form. We have decided to increase the number of diseases to be considered for medical invalidation to enable maximum number of employees avail the proposed compensatory or compassionate employment scheme,” he said. Addressing media at Telangana Bhavan, with daughter and party MP K Kavitha, he made a slew of promises, including to provide a `6 lakh interest-free home loan for workers and to extend referral medical facility — now valid for spouses and children of workers — to cover workers’ parents. “Congress filed petitions in Courts against the dependent jobs scheme, revived by our government.

Then, courts halted the scheme. As Courts have objected, we have consulted legal experts and decided to implement the scheme in a new form.... If it is compensatory appointment under medical grounds, then the Courts won’t object to it,” he explained. In case of dependents declining the job offer, the family will get a one-time settlement of `25 lakh or a monthly income of `25,000 till the worker reaches retirement age, he said. “I request Singareni workers to vote for the TRS-backed TBGKS in the polls,” Rao added.

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