Summary:
The contract workers of the company also constitute a substantial number of electors in the Kothagudem region. Sources said a little over 10,000 employees, including the coal workers, are on the company’s rolls in the Kothagudem, Manuguru, Yellandu and Corporate areas in the district. TBGKS senior leaders held discussions with Mr Rao in Kothagudem on Monday on the campaign strategies to reach out to the SCCL employees as well as the retired staff. The ruling party contestants have drawn up plans to rope in the services of the party-affiliated Telangana Boggu Gani Karmika Sangham (TBGKS), the recognised trade union of the company, for electioneering. The TRS candidates are heavily banking on the support of the SCCL workers and have initiated efforts to prominently highlight the ‘slew of welfare measures’ initiated by the TRS government for SCCL employees in the past four years while taking up campaigning, party sources said..