Singareni Collieries Company Limited, also known as SCCL, is a state-owned coal mining enterprise in India. It is jointly owned by the Government of Telangana, which holds a 51% stake in the company, and the Indian Ministry of Coal. Singareni Collieries owns and operates 17 open-cast mines and 22 underground mines in the state of Telangana. In September 2025, the company reported a total of 41,000 regular employees, with an additional 30,000 workers employed on a contract basis.

Since 2015, Singareni Collieries has extracted a total of 692 million tonnes of coal, including 58 million tonnes in the 2025-26 fiscal year. The company is responsible for 9.2% of India's total domestic coal production. In 2025, Singareni Collieries launched two subsidiaries, Singareni Green Energy Company and Singareni Global Limited, focused on solar power and overseas mining operations respectively. The company also opened a new mine in the Angul district of Odisha, its first mining operation outside the state of Telangana.

History

In 1871, William King, a geologist of the Geological Survey of India, discovered coal near the town of Yellandu in Hyderabad State while conducting a geological survey. The Hyderabad (Deccan) Company Limited, incorporated in England, acquired the area's coal mining rights in 1886. The company, renamed Singareni Collieries Company in 1920, was later purchased by Hyderabad State in 1945. Following Indian independence, a majority of the shares were owned by the Andhra Pradesh state government.

Administrators Sl.No.YearsNameDesignationHighestDegree11921 - 1934Sir Gordon Fraser,Transactions of the Mining, Geological, and Metallurgical Institute of India, Volume 17, 1923, p.248. OBEChairperson (CP)21934 - 1942Mr. L. C. CrosleghThe Mining Year Book, W.R. Skinner and Financial Times, 1936, p.539.CP 31942 - 1945Sir Robert Denniston,S. Srinath, Methods of Recruitment in the Signareni Collieries 1946-56, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Volume 48, 1987, pp. 579-585. OBECP41946Mr. Zahid Husain, C. I. E.CP51947Nawab Liakat Jung BahadurThe Hyderabad Government Bulletin on Economic Affairs, Volume 1, Hyderabad, 1948.CP61948Nawab Moin Nawaz Jung BahadurCP71948 - 1949Mr. D. R. Pradhan,Lionel Carter (Edited), Towards a Ceasefire in Kashmir: British Official Reports from South Asia, 18 September - 31 December 1948, Routledge, Abingdon, 2018. I. C. S.CP81949 - 1952Mr. C. V. S. Rao,The Hyderabad Government Bulletin on Economic Affairs, Volume 4, Issues 9-11, 1951, p.631. C. I. E.CP91952 - 1956Dr. G. S. MelkoteCPM.B.B.S.P. Rajeswar Rao, The Great Indian Patriots, Volume 2, Mittal Publications, New Delhi, 1991, p.118.101956 - 1957Mr. K. Venkata RaoCPPUC111957 - 1958Mr. S. J. TaraporeThe Madras Stock Exchange Official Year-book, Madras Stock Exchange Limited, Madras, 1957, p.751.CP 121959Mr. P. M. Nayak,Kothari's Economic Guide and Investors' Handbook of India, Volume 2, 1961, p.194. I.C.S.CP 131959Mr. R. Prasad, I.C.S.CP 141960Mr. R. S. Krishnaswamy, I.C.S.CPM. A.Annual List of Gazetted Officers in the Andhra Pradesh State, Andhra Pradesh (India) General Administration Department, Government of Andhra Pradesh, 1963, p.xvi.151961Mr. P. M. Nayak,Kothari's Economic Guide and Investors' Handbook of India, Volume 2, 1961, p.194. I.C.S.CP161962 - 1964Mr. M. P. Pai,Kothari's Economic Guide and Investors' Handbook of India, 1965, p.198. I.C.S.CP 171964 - 1972Mr. V. K. Rao,Kothari's Economic and Industrial Guide of India, 1973, p.43 I.C.S.CP 181972 - 1974Mr. K. I. Vidyasagar,Civil List of the Indian Administrative Service, Volume 17, 1972, p.2. I. A. S.Chairperson & Managing Director (CMD)191974 - 1978Mr. B. N. Raman,E. V. Ram Reddi (Compiled), Report of Enquiry into Certain Transactions of the Singareni Collieries Company Limited, Volume 1, Government Secretariat Press, Hyderabad, 1983, p.69. I. A. S.CMD 201979 - 1981Mr. C. N. Sastry,Link, Volume 26, Issue 4, 1984, p.32 I. A. S.CMD 211981 - 1982Mr. S. Santhanam, I. A. S.CMD 221982Mr. P. K. Doraiswamy, I. A. S.CMD 231982 - 1983Mr. A. Valliappan,The Civil List of the Indian Administrative Service, Volume 28, 1983, p.5. I. A. S.CMD 241983 - 1984Mr. K. M. Ahmad,India Today, Volume 9, Issues 1-12, 1984, p.67 I. A. S.CMD 251984 - 1987Mr. G. P. Rao,R. Ram Reddy, Industrial Relations in India: A Study of the Singareni Collieries, Mittal Publications, 1990, p.xi. I. A. S.CMD 261987 - 1990Mr. V. Govindarajan,P. L. Diwakar Rao, Public sector in Andhra Pradesh: a handbook & directory : with a special supplement on central sector, Utility Publications, 1988, p.141. I. A. S.CMD 271990 - 1992Mr. A. Valliappan, I. A. S.CMD 281992Mr. R. V. Krishnan,The Civil List of the Indian Administrative Service, Volume 37, 1992. I. A. S.CMD 291992 - 1996Mr. P. P. Williams, I. A. S.CMDMSc (Andhra) 301996Mr. M. C. Mahapatra,Data India, Press Institute of India, Madras, 1996, p.220 I. A. S.CMD 311996Mr. P. V. Bhide, I. A. S.CMDM. B. A.NOCIL Limited, Notice of AGM, 2019 321997 - 2001Mr. A. P. V. N. Sarma,Dattatreyulu Jammalamadaka, Mining Ideas and Coal: Journey with Singareni, Notion Books, Chennai, 2015. I. A. S.CMDB. E. (REC)Advisors to Governor of Andhra Pradesh 332001 - 2006Mr. R. H. Khwaja,Moid Siddiqui, R. H. Khwaja, The Acrobatics of Change: Concepts, Techniques, Strategies and Execution, Sage, New Delhi, 2008. I. A. S.CMDM.A. (Aligarh)R.H. Khwaja takes over as Director-General of ASCI, The Hindu, 3 January 2017.342006 - 2012Mr. S. Narsing Rao, I. A. S.CMDMSc (Osmania)Osmania Universitym Distinguished Alumni 352012 - 2014Mr. Sutirtha Bhattacharya, I. A. S.CMDBSc (Calcutta) 362015 - 2023Mr. N. Sridhar, I. A. S.N. Sridhar the new CMD of SCCL, The Hindu, Hyderabad, 30 December 2014.CMDB. E. 37Since 2023Mr. N. Balram, I.R.SCMD

See also Singareni Thermal Power Plant List of trade unions in the Singareni coal fields

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