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&amp;quot;However, the ministry of coal continued to follow the screening committee route for subsequent allotments till date with the approval of the Prime Minister&#039;s Office,&amp;quot; says the CAG&#039;s draft report. The draft report records how the government has failed to introduce the bidding process even after the necessary changes in the laws have been made.
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&amp;quot;In sum, there were a series of correspondences with the ministry of law and justice for drawing conclusion on the legal feasibility of the proposed amendments to the CMN Act/MMDR Act or through administrative order to introduce auctioning/competitive bidding process for allocation of coal blocks for captive mining. There was no legal impediment for introduction of transparent and objective process of competitive bidding for allocation of coal blocks for captive mining as per legal opinion of July 2006 of the ministry of law and justice and this could have been done through an administrative decision. However, the ministry of coal went ahead for allocation of coal blocks through the screening committee route and advertized in September 2006 for allocation of 38 coal blocks and continued with the process till 2009,&amp;quot; says the report.
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The government continued to give away coal blocks without bidding even after a meeting headed by Manmohan Singh (in his role as coal minister) on October 14, 2004 decided that all future allocation would be through the competitive route, says a CAG report.
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The government auditors' draft report on performance of coal block allocations also says the Centre opted for the longer process of amending mining laws when it could have introduced competitive bidding through an administrative order under an existing law governing contracts.
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The draft report says that the October 2004 meeting with the PM as coal minister decided that applications for mines received after June 28, 2004 would be processed under the new competitive bidding regime. The government chose this as the cut-off date since the intention to introduce competitive bidding for coal blocks was first made public on this date at a ministry meeting with stakeholders, the auditor says.
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&quot;However, the ministry of coal continued to follow the screening committee route for subsequent allotments till date with the approval of the Prime Minister's Office,&quot; says the CAG's draft report. The draft report records how the government has failed to introduce the bidding process even after the necessary changes in the laws have been made.
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PM's fiat failed to block coalgate-Sanjay Dutta

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