Coal Auction Archives

News Reports

AAP does what it does best – lie through its teeth. Here are 6 lies about PM Modi and Adani that Arvind Kejriwal spread

Raju Das - 4 April, 2023

Arvind Kejriwal made several allegations accusing Modi of benefiting Adani group by undue allocation of coal, all of which are false and baseless

News Reports

Former Union Coal Secretary and Manmohan Singh aide HC Gupta given three-year jail term, charged 1 lakh fine in UPA-era coal scam

OpIndia Staff - 8 August, 2022

A special CBI court Monday awarded a three-year jail term to former Union Coal secretary HC Gupta in the UPA-era coal scam case

News Reports

UPA-era coal scam: Former Union Coal Secretary HC Gupta, who worked under Manmohan Singh, joint secretary KS Kropha and 1 other convicted

OpIndia Staff - 29 July, 2022

The CBI court of special judge Arun Bharadwaj found HC Gupta, KS Kropha and Mukesh Gupta guilty under various provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

News Reports

PM Modi launches auction of 41 coal mines for commercial mining, says it will bring jobs and development to tribal belt in central and...

OpIndia Staff - 18 June, 2020

In the auction process, 41 coal mines are on offer which includes fully explored and partially explored mines.

Government and Policy

Business Standard’s article insinuating that private entities benefit more from coal policy than consumers is flawed and ill-argued

K Bhattacharjee - 25 April, 2019

Business Standard published an article recently, authored by Nitin Sethi, titled 'NDA's coal block policy and new regulations face critical questions' where it was insinuated that private entities gained more from the central government's coal policy and consumers and state governments suffered as a consequence.

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