This is an Singareni Collieries Company Ltd-SCCL page well known to the Telangana region and having coal mines in 4 districts in Telangana (Khammam,Adilabad,Karimnagar,Warangal). In the year 1871, Dr. King of the Geological Survey of India discovered coal near the village of Yellandu(Bogutta) in Khammam district and one of the important coal seams bore his name. The present Company was incorporate
d on 23rd December 1920 under the Hyderabad Companies Act as a public limited company with the name 'The Singareni Collieries Company Limited' (SCCL). It acquired all the assets and liabilities of the Hyderabad (Deccan) Co. Best & Co., acted as Secretaries and Selling Agents. The State of Hyderabad purchased majority shares of the Company in 1945. From 1945 to 1949, the Hyderabad Construction Co., Ltd., was acting as Managing Agent. In 1949 this function was entrusted to Industrial Trust Fund by the then Government of Hyderabad. The controlling interest of the Company devolved on the Government of Andhra Pradesh in 1956 pursuant to the reorganization of States. Thus, the SCCL became a Government Company under the Companies Act in 1956.
