Adilabad gets ‘revival’ talk, CCI readies tender
BRS is pushing to reopen CCI’s Adilabad unit. The BJP-led Centre’s own record still parks it in the sell-and-move-on pile.
The CCI record points to a tender; revival claims remain on paper.
BRS leaders want the Cement Corporation of India plant in Adilabad reopened. The last official CCI record found says something else: “asset valuation completed. Tender under preparation.” That’s 2022–23, and it reads like disposal, not revival. According to CCI’s annual report, idle assets at non-operating units are being sold on an “as is where is” basis — again, not exactly the blueprint for a relaunch.
Parliamentary answers line up with that. In 2015 the Union government called Adilabad “non-operative” and said there was “no proposal to revive the closed units.” In 2017, asked point-blank if it planned to reopen Adilabad, the answer was one word: “No.” The same year, the BJP-led Centre told Telangana to join the strategic sale process — after acknowledging it had received a state revival proposal.
New claims in July — a ₹2,000-crore modern plant, a ₹250-crore Telangana stake, and a green signal if the state extends leases and clears files — are attributed to K.T. Rama Rao’s readout of a meeting with Union Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy. No ministry note, Cabinet decision or CCI paper backs those terms in the material consulted. If the Congress-run state government has now sent a fresh proposal or extended the mining lease, it hasn’t put the paperwork on the record either.
So the ledger today is simple: Telangana asked to revive; the BJP-led Centre’s documents kept Adilabad on the disinvestment track; the latest CCI report still points to a tender. If Delhi has had a change of heart, it forgot to tell its files — which is where money usually lives.