In RTI reply, Coal Min says Coalgate papers with CBI
22 Aug 2013 11:45 PM GMT
Amid controversy over missing files related to coal block allocation, some RTI replies given by the Coal Ministry to queries from NGO Greenpeace and other activists say that the documents are already with the CBI.
‘The information sought on copies of applications of the companies who have been allocated coal blocks, it is informed that all the applications along with annexures or enclosures, in original, are in the custody of Central Bureau of Investigation,’ Ministry of Coal said in reply to a RTI query filed by Greenpeace.
Greenpeace said it had received two RTI replies from the Coal Ministry on 4 October, 2012 and 28 February.
‘On both the occasions the Coal Ministry claimed that the files related to allocations of coal block from 1993-2012 are all with CBI,’ it said in a release issued on Wednesday.
It also said it had received another RTI reply from Environment Ministry on 23 December, 2011 stating that files relating of Mahan Coal Block are untraceable.
‘This is with reference to your aforesaid application and to state that as per records available in the section, one file namely Mahan Opencast Coal mine Project of M/s Mahan Coal Com. is not traceable,’ the Environment Ministry had said in its reply to the query seeking ‘information pertaining to the missing files of Amelia and Mahan Coalmine Projects’.
‘The information sought on copies of applications of the companies who have been allocated coal blocks, it is informed that all the applications along with annexures or enclosures, in original, are in the custody of Central Bureau of Investigation,’ Ministry of Coal said in reply to a RTI query filed by Greenpeace.
Greenpeace said it had received two RTI replies from the Coal Ministry on 4 October, 2012 and 28 February.
‘On both the occasions the Coal Ministry claimed that the files related to allocations of coal block from 1993-2012 are all with CBI,’ it said in a release issued on Wednesday.
It also said it had received another RTI reply from Environment Ministry on 23 December, 2011 stating that files relating of Mahan Coal Block are untraceable.
‘This is with reference to your aforesaid application and to state that as per records available in the section, one file namely Mahan Opencast Coal mine Project of M/s Mahan Coal Com. is not traceable,’ the Environment Ministry had said in its reply to the query seeking ‘information pertaining to the missing files of Amelia and Mahan Coalmine Projects’.
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