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The Singareni Collieries Company Limited is a Government owned
Coal mining
Company in Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh with its
operations in four districts and
its Head Office at Kothagudem in Khammam District.
Since a long time, I have been thinking of writing on my
association with Kothagudemand The Singareni Collieries Company but
it has been possible only now. Kothagudem
has been my second home for almost 30 years. To write on 30
years of happy association
with this Town and Company would turn out to be a book of
several pages, interesting to
the family but perhaps not so to every other reader. Here at my
blog I will write in brief
about the Singareni Collieries Company and Kothagudem Town and
our association with
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them in perhaps two parts and post whatever relevant photographs
I can find from our
albums.
My family has been associated with the Singareni Collieries
Company Limited and
Kothagudem from 1952 that is from a time before my birth and up
to 1982. Though we
left the place in 1982, our association with Singareni
Collieries still continues as share
holders of the Company, of course of a microscopic value. We are
kept informed about
all Board meetings and their Annual performance Reports even
today. And as for
Kothagudem Town we still have a number of acquaintances there
with whom we have
very cordial relations.
My father, Sri N. Bhaskarachary joined The Singareni Collieries
Company Limited at
Kothagudem as Personnel Manager in April 1952. The total
strength of employees at that
time was about 9,000. There was no Personnel Department as such
until then. The
welfare part of the workmen was looked after by Doctors posted
in different Coal mining
areas and the recruitment by the respective mining area
in-charges. My father joined
Singareni Collieries after serving H.E.H. The Nizams Railway and
the Central Railwayof Indian Government for 16 years as Personnel
Manager and Officer on Special duty. At
Singareni Collieries he established the Personnel Department. At
the time of his
retirement the Company had 76,000 workmen spread over Coal Mines
in four districts of
Andhra Pradesh.
I began my studies at Kothagudem at the St. Marys Girls High
School. I studied from
Montessori to Sixth class at St. Marys. Thereafter, at the age
of eleven I was shifted to
our home in Secunderabad to pursue further studies. And during
all those years of my
Middle school, High school and College education I and my
brother eagerly waited for
vacations to join my parents, sister and childhood friends at
Kothagudem. The vacation
time at Kothagudem was always the best part of my younger days.
Though it is a smalltown there were plenty of Comics in circulation
and then as I grew up it was Novels.
There was the pursuit of many hobbies among us friends. We
played a number of games
in our spacious Company bungalow. We had facilities to play a
variety of games at the
KCOA and Yellandu Clubs. While I was in my XI and XII Classes I
played Cricket for
the Singareni Collieries Cricket Club and participated in a
number of matches and two
Tournaments.
Later after I completed my B.E. Electrical Engineering Course, I
joined the Singareni
Collieries Company as an Asst. Engineer at Kothagudem. And after
working for four
years I resigned from the Company and shifted to
Secunderabad.
Kothagudem is 270 Kms. from Hyderabad. It had many Coal Mines
during our stay there
but now there are fewer mines. The town is spread over a large
area because of the distant
location of the mines. Area wise the town is more or less the
same over all these years but
it is now densely populated with more buildings everywhere,
wider roads, large number
of shops, restaurants, lodges, doctors and nursing homes.
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I have posted here a number of old pictures associated with the
mining related operations
of the Singareni Collieries. I hope you have found them
interesting. I shall write more
about Singanreni Collieries in Part-II of this topic.
Posted by Raghu N at 12:30 PM
4 comments:
sridhar said...
Hi you have given us a perfect overview of the total coal
production process. nice
collection of vintage photographs. it reminds me about our trip
to the coal mines...
May 28, 2010 11:58 PM
RAAVI said...
how on the earth you found them, nice collection
June 2, 2010 8:20 AM
Mohammed Manzoor Ahmed said...
I SPENT MORE THAN 15 YEARS OF MY LIFE , ITS VERY TOUCHING TO SEE
ALL
THE PICTURES. MY FATHER WORKEDHERE. MY SISTER STUDIED IN ST
MARY'S.
June 11, 2010 2:48 PM
mahesh said...
Hi,
Your blog has refreshed my early childhood and college days
memory of Singareni.my
late father Shri M.N. Bhogawar, retired as GM Bellampalli BPA)
father worked from 1969
to 1998 in Singareni with 12 years from 1978 to 1989 at
Kothagudem and rest between
RKP and BPA.
Growing up in the environs of a Yellandu Club comes natural to
Singareni childhood.
November 1, 2010 4:06 AM
