Indian Coal Mining Controversy which is also known as Coalgate Scandal. Coal mining controversy is a political controversy highlighting the nation’s irregularities in the matter of handling national coal deposits. Another scam in a history of Indian, Coal mining controversy is major fraud in 2012, which involved Rs 1, 86, 000 Cr losses to exchequer. This is serious allegation against Prime Minister of India Dr Manmohan Singh who is in a serious scrutiny of the CAG which leads to protest against the leading political party NCP and Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh asking for his resignation. Social activist Arvind Kajrewal and IAC(India against corruption) activist marched to the Prime Minister, Congress and Bhartiya Janata party's member's residence in Delhi. The …show more content…
As a result of the September 2012 hearing in the Supreme Court of India, has ordered the government in power, the Congress to state the reasons for not following the 2004 policy of competitive bidding for coal block allocation. The companies who have breached the allegations and the steps which have not been followed are being taken into consideration by the Supreme Court of India. The strongest party in the opposition, the Bharatiya Janata Party has stated that the ruling party in India, the Indian National Congress has allocated as many as 142 coal blocks to private entrepreneur’s most of who were not even actual users and traders. The government is alleged of not following the competitive bidding policy in 2004 so that the 142 bidders were selected on an arbitrary basis. Congress, the party in power on the other hand states that all these allocations are completely false and have stated in defense that “the loss can arise only if one ton of coal is taken out of mother earth and sold at some unacceptable price”. The critics and the party in opposition on