₹1 crore promised. ₹58 lakh missing.
TPJAC wants CM Revanth Reddy to enforce the ₹1 crore announced after the Sigachi blast. The company says its tab stops at ₹42 lakh per family; the rest, it argues, is the government’s job.
The promised compensation and the documented payment gap remain unresolved.
TPJAC has asked Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy to finish what he announced on 30 June 2025: ₹1 crore to each family of the workers killed in the Sigachi Industries blast. The committee says families are still short by ₹58 lakh each and wants the state to make the company pay up, not count PF, ESI or insurance as “ex gratia”. According to a report, Sigachi has paid ₹42 lakh per family so far, bundling statutory and insurance dues into that figure.
Sigachi’s own filings record only interim cheques in July 2025 — ₹10 lakh to 15 families, ₹15 lakh to eight untraced cases, and ₹1 lakh to injured workers — with a “phased” plan to follow. Later, in court, the company’s position was that its total share is ₹42 lakh per deceased worker and the remaining ₹58 lakh should come from the government under an arrangement it says existed from 1 July 2025. That alleged agreement wasn’t available on the record we could access; treat it as Sigachi’s claim before the High Court, not settled fact.
What is on record: the AIR Hyderabad bulletin from 1 July 2025 that quotes the Chief Minister directing ₹1 crore for the bereaved families, plus ₹10 lakh/₹1 lakh for the injured. What is not on record: a clear, published split of who pays what, and a family-wise ledger showing the money actually received. That is the gap TPJAC wants the CM to close.
The BJP-led Centre didn’t announce this package and the TDP has nothing to say about workers killed in Telangana; both are reliably loud only when there’s a camera, not a cheque. The Congress government in Telangana made the ₹1 crore announcement; a year later, the missing ₹58 lakh is still the loudest part of it.