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Telangana JAC chief urges govt to take over Nizam Sugars
Stating that the State government had a major share and role to play in the Nizam Sugar Factory, Telangana JAC Chairman Prof M Kodandaram on Thursday demanded the government to take over the factory and release pending salary dues immediately until the issue is resolved.
Hyderabad: Stating that the State government had a major share and role to play in the Nizam Sugar Factory, Telangana JAC Chairman Prof M Kodandaram on Thursday demanded the government to take over the factory and release pending salary dues immediately until the issue is resolved.
Addressing a press conference at the JAC office, Kodandaram said that the workers were agitated for the last 13 months over the non-payment of their salary dues.
“The government has 49 per cent share in the NSF and it has an important role to play in its functioning. We want the government to run the factory. The government should clear the salary dues and take a quick decision on the fate of the factory,” he said.
The JAC Chairman alleged that the government was misleading the people by stating that there were no contract workers in Singareni. He said that all the works taken by private people are done by these contract workers.
Kodandaram said that a meeting would be organised shortly in the city on the opencast mining. He said that the people in Gandhinagar area in Manuguru were protesting against open cast. Stating that the government should review the open cast system, he said that all sacrifices cannot be done by the poor.
Alternative measures should be looked upon for digging out coal. Sacrifice doesn’t mean we ask the people to lose their lives,” said Kodandram.
JAC coordinator Pittala Ravinder said that government during the last 50 years took up 16 opencast mines and because of this 150 villages vanished but the chief minister during the debate in Assembly said that government would take up another 20 opencast mines within two and half years.
He said, during the undivided Andhra Pradesh, KCR had fought against opencast mining but now he wants to open more such mines. The government should withdraw the decision on opencast mining, he said.
The JAC leaders along with legal experts would soon meet the President of India Pranab Mukherjee and request him not to approve the new Land Acquisition Act proposed by Telangana government and insist up on the implementation of 2013 Act.
JAC co-convener Khwaja Moinuddin demanded the government to implement the recommendations of Sudheer Committee and provide 12 per cent reservations to Muslims.
