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The three reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on coal, ultra-mega power projects and airports, playing out in the public discourse as major indictments of corruption and of the government, serve only to spread confusion and convert infrastructure building into a political battleground. The reports are ill-informed by commercial logic, sometimes deficient in factual detail. &lt;br /&gt;
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The only sensible reform in coal is to scrap the Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act of 1973 and open up mining to professional miners, from whom all coal users should buy their requirement. Auctioning coal blocks as captive mines for different end-users with different markets - steel and cement are not regulated while power is, and the regulator does not allow fuel costs beyond its own arbitrary limit - is fraught with problems of logic and, possibly, of law. &lt;br /&gt;
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The three reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on coal, ultra-mega power projects and airports, playing out in the public discourse as major indictments of corruption and of the government, serve only to spread confusion and convert infrastructure building into a political battleground. The reports are ill-informed by commercial logic, sometimes deficient in factual detail. &lt;br /&gt;
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-The Economic Times<br />
<br />
The three reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on coal, ultra-mega power projects and airports, playing out in the public discourse as major indictments of corruption and of the government, serve only to spread confusion and convert infrastructure building into a political battleground. The reports are ill-informed by commercial logic, sometimes deficient in factual detail. <br />
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Take the report on coal. It is true that undue benefit accrues to companies from allocation of captive mines. But it is not true that this can be undone, as the report suggests, by allocation of the mining blocks via auction. Howsoever allocated, a captive block vests undue benefit on the allottee. <br />
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CAG reports, instead of shedding light, increasingly spread confusion

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