Indronil Roy Chowdhury Kolkata: Coal India Ltd (CIL) has dropped Indonesia-based Jaguar Energy & Power Ltd from the list of companies, it intended to forge partnerships with to secure foreign coal blocks due to its alleged connection with Madhu Koda, the former Jharkhand chief minister charged with the Rs 4,000-crore scam.
Even as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) under the jurisdiction of Supreme Court (SC) investigates the multi-crore Coalgate scam, the union power ministry (MoP) has found out that many private
Application for Directions filed by Common Cause seeking a seeking a thorough probe into the unlawful interference by the Government in the ongoing investigation by the CBI and the dilution of the status
A talathi (village official) of a village in Chandrapur district has accused top district administrative officers, including the District Collector, of alleged involvement in an illegal mining scam worth Rs. 587 crore. Vinod Khobragade, the talathi of Baranj village has complained to the State Revenue Minister, accusing the District Collector Vijay Waghmare and three other officers of being involved in the scam illegal mining.
New Delhi: The four members of the Jayaswal family — Manoj, Arvind, Abhishek and Anand — who were questioned by the CBI on Wednesday in connection with the Coalgate scam, had “justified their act of misrepresentation
Vinod Khobragade, the village official ( talathi ) of Baranj village in Chandrapur district of Maharashtra who imposed a fine of Rs. 32 crore on the Karnataka Emta Coal Mines Limited (KECML) for alleged illegal mining, was suspended on Monday. He had also accused the top district officials, including the District Collector, of involvement in the scam. “I have been suspended from service without even a show cause notice. They have suspended me for providing information to the media about the illegal mining scam in Chandrapur,” Mr. Khobragade told The Hindu over phone.
In Separate Opinion, Justice Khehar Stresses Bidding Route For Coal Blocks New Delhi: The Supreme Court, while answering the presidential reference on 2G judgment, took note of the Coalgate scam that
FIRs against 5 companies, raids in 10 cities, captive block holders face charges of misrepresentation of facts, criminal conspiracy & cheating After the telecom scam, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has turned the heat on the allocation of coal blocks. It has registered FIRs against 20 accused, including five private companies, their directors and unknown government officials for misrepresentation of facts during allocation. The agency is likely to register more FIRs.
The four years of ‘black gold rush period’ from 2006 was in no way less a scam than the 2G spectrum allocation: BJP The Opposition criticised the functioning of the coal ministry in the Rajya Sabha on
The coal ministry on Tuesday approved the deallocation of captive blocks held by SKS Ispat and Bhushan Steel, based on the recommendations of an inter-ministerial group (IMG) reviewing progress on the blocks. At a meeting on Tuesday, the panel also recommended deallocating a block being developed by Bihar Sponge. SKS Ispat’s Rawanwara North block and Bhushan Steel’s New Patrapara block, deallocated on Tuesday by Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal, together hold reserves of 1,216 mt. SKS Ispat was recently in news after its name figured in the alleged allocation scam. Tourism Minister Subodh Kant Sahay’s brother Sudhir Kant Sahay is an executive director in the company.
Mines in the western Indian state of Goa were ordered to close on Tuesday after a government-backed inquiry estimated illegal trade in iron ore had cost more than $6.0 billion in five years. The state
Most Blocks Were Allocated Between 2005 & 2009 New Delhi: Ahead of filing FIRs in the coalgate scam, the CBI has identified several companies which were allocated blocks long back but had not started
Patna: Corporate affairs minister in UPA-I and RJD MP Premchand Gupta is the latest politician to figure in the coalgate scam after it came to light that IST Steel and Power Ltd, a company which his two
The ongoing controversy over coal blocks has led the government to hasten efforts to introduce auctioning for future allocations, but the framework devised for bidding has ignored a crucial suggestion by the Chawla committee that could prevent eruption of a similar scam in future. This is despite the panel’s clarification that there is no legal bar disallowing implementation of the suggestion. Ashok Chawla, former finance secretary and now head of the Competition Commission, had chaired a panel on allocation of natural resources. In its report in May last year, it had recommended allowing independent mining companies to participate in the bidding for captive blocks, provided their end-user companies were suitably notified.
CAG report points the finger at Manmohan for discrepancies Reeling under the impact of several scams, including 2G spectrum allocation, UPA-II was buffeted on Friday by another serious allegation that it had caused a Rs. 1.86- lakh crore loss to the exchequer by not ensuring transparency in coal blocks allocation during 2004-09. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh also came under scrutiny of the Comptroller and Auditor-General, whose report pointed to serious discrepancies during 2006-09, when he was holding charge of the Coal Ministry.
The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has been accused of allocating over 1.86 lakh hectares of forest land for mining without the consent of gram sabhas as has been made mandatory under the Forest Rights Act. In all, 1,82,389 hectares of forest land was diverted by the environment ministry between January 2008 and August 2011. The Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) headed by T. Chatterjee, secretary of MoEF, has recommended diversion of four additional projects located in prime forest land in 2012. This includes 151,762 hectares for the Lara Super Thermal Power Plant in the Raigarh district of Chattisgarh and 766,393 hectares of forest land for the Talaipall Coal Mining Project in the Raigarh and Dharmajaigarh forest divisions of Chattisgarh.
<p>A new Greenpeace India campaign is gearing up to take on the Indian coal industry, coal ministry and even the Prime Minister. The environmental action group is determined to create awareness about how
Congress and BJP on Monday cornered the Odisha government by posing difficult queries on the multi-crore mining scam and demanding CBI probe into it. The state steel mines minister Rajanikant Singh, however,
Karno GuhathakurtaIt was a trade exhibition abuzz with the restrained chatter of busy suited executives at company stalls making contacts and finalising deals. Nothing out of place except that this trade
<div> (From my website <a href="http://eassarma.in">http://eassarma.in</a>)</div> <div> </div> <ol type="1"> <li>While India is seriously engaged in global climate talks, it has simultaneously launched a highly misconceived plan to set up private “merchant” power plants based on coal.
