Coal Scam One Of India's Biggest Scams, Says CBI Seeking Maximum Punishment Convicts. CBI during arguments submitted that loss to the tune of Rupees Lakh Crore to the Govt. Exchequer. (CAG ...
Until a recent stock market rout on allegations of accounting fraud by a USbased ... be inserted before the sentence "competitive bidding process" in the Coal Block Allocation Rules of 2017 ...
1. What's the coal block allotment scam all about? Going strictly by the CAG report, 57 captive coal blocks were allotted free of cost to private companies in an arbitrary and opaque manner between 2004 and 2009. The government had decided to go for auctioning of coal blocks by competitive bidding way back in 2004, but did not implement it.
The coal allocation fraud, dubbed 'Call Gate' in the media, is a major political scandal involving the Indian government's allocation of the country's coal reserves to Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs) and private companies. ... However, Gupta has denied any involvement with IST Steel and denies affecting the coal allocation process.
A special CBI court on Monday awarded a 3year imprisonment sentence to former coal secretary HC Gupta in a coal scam case of irregularities in the allocation of a Maharashtra coal block to a Nagpurbased private company. Special Judge Arun Bhardwaj also awarded two year imprisonment to former jointSecretary in the Ministry of Coal (MoC), K S Kropha in the case and imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 ...
In a threedecadeold allotment of coal blocks for mining, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against companies of the RPSanjiv Goenka group on charges of corruption, cheating and criminal conspiracy. It relates to the Deocha Pachami, Tara West, Mahan and South Dadhu coal blocks allotted in the period.
One such fraud was the Coalgate scandal, in which the UPA government was accused of assigning coal blocks without a competitive bidding procedure. ... Act of 1973 would allow domestic and international enterprises to participate in the coal block allocation case process. The revised legislation, which would make auctions mandatory for the ...
After the 2023 allocation process begins, the Treasury Department and IRS will monitor and assess whether to implement any modifications to the LowIncome Communities Bonus Credit Program for calendar year 2024 allocations of Capacity Limitation. ... which was originally enacted by § 1302(b) of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of ...
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ET Bureau. DELHI: With the Supreme Court asking if the Centre even had the authority to allocate coal blocks, CoalGate is back in the news. Last year, when CoalGate was triggering much outrage in newspapers and TV studios, fundamental questions like these had entirely eluded the media's scrutiny. After a draft report by the Comptroller and ...
The Coal Scam or the "Coalgate" scandal has marred India's reputation as a thriving economy yet again and exposed the magnitude of irregularities in the management of key reservoir of natural resource Coal in 2012. India is one of the biggest coal producers in the world with coalrich states like Orissa, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), the coal industry accounted for almost 40% of electricity generation and more than 40% of energyrelated carbon dioxide emissions in 2019. Even as the coal industry struggles in the United States and Europe, it remains powerful globally, and, while the pandemic drove a drop in coal demand in 2020, IEA forecasts a rebound for coal demand in ...
Opinion. The muchawaited report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India on the allocation of coal blocks was tabled in Parliament on Friday. The report created a massive uproar in political circles with the government being heavily criticised for causing a Rs lakh crore loss to the exchequer.
The 2015 Bill primarily seeks to allocate the coal mines that were declared illegal by the Supreme Court. It provides details for the auction process, compensation for the prior allottees, the process for transfer of mines and details of authorities that would conduct the auction. In December 2014, the ministry notified the Coal Mines (Special ...
Coal mining, coal transportation, and coalfired power plants, as well as infrastructure services exclusively dedicated to supporting any of these activities, are also excluded. For all Higher Risk Activities proposed for Bank financing, the Bank requires each VC Fund to furnish its detailed environmental and social due diligence for the Bank's ...
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Controller and Auditor General of India(CAG), in August 2012, released a report regarding allocation procedure of coal blocks and major drawbacks in this process till date. He recommended that this process should be more transparent. He also suggested that competitive bidding can make a more objective approach in allocation of coal blocks.
The Supreme Court last week asked the Enforcement Directorate to file by July 15 a status report on the over 50 cases of money laundering it is probing in connection with the coal blocks allocation directions came in a case where the ED had pleaded that four officers be relieved since their tenure in the agency was complete.
In a nutshell, the coal allocation scam, or 'Coalgate' as it is popularly referred to in the media, is a political scandal that engulfed the UPA government in 2012. The scam came to light after the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) accused the government of India for allocating 194 coal blocks to public and private enterprises ...
Coal sector in India: Despite having the world's fourth largest coal reserves, India imported 235 million tonnes (mt) of coal last year, of which 135mt valued at,000 crore could have been met from domestic reserves.; India's staterun coal giant has been unable to meet growing demand despite abundant resources.; The South Asian nation depends on Coal India for more than 80 per cent ...
The EU is accelerating the end of its dependence on Russian fossil fuel imports. Negotiators of the Council and the European Parliament have reached a provisional agreement on the REPowerEU proposal which aims to strengthen the strategic autonomy of the Union by diversifying energy supplies and boosting the independence and security of the ...
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