India Today Hindi’s cover story Sarkar Ka Munh Kala is about the Coalgate. Even while Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was saving the world at the NAM summit in Tehran, confident that he had said enough in Parliament to exonerate his government in the scam swirling around the allotment of coal blocks, a group of senior bureaucrats finalised a draft report recommending cancellation of 53 out of 57 allotments made by the coal ministry during the period 2005-2009. This inter-ministerial group (IMG) was of additional secretary level, led by Zohra Chatterji, additional secretary, Ministry of Coal, set up on June 21 this year to check which companies had operationalised mining in the blocks allocated to them. The draft report, accessed by headlines today, revealed that the coal reserves in the 53 blocks recommended for cancellation account for Rs 1.85 lakh crore of the total Rs 1.86 lakh crore presumptive loss estimated by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG): Of the 53 blocks, owners of 17 have not even asked for forest clearance or initiated land acquisition. The IMG draft report has recommended that these blocks be handed over to public sector Coal India Limited which could then supply coal to the final users—the same ones who had been allocated the 53 mines for captive use. The raging heat from the Coal War has scorched the Prime Minister’s integrity and exposed the rot within the heart of coal allocation in a power-hungry country. Khas Rapat (Gopal Kanda): Husn Ki Sidi Per Siyasi Safar Ajay Chautala says, Kanda is a pimp and this case will prove India’s biggest sex racket. Know the reality of Gopal Goyal Kanda. . Khas Rapat (Online Censorship): Nanhe Media Se Kaampti Sarkar The Government’s attempt to block ‘inflammatory’ content on the Internet was a public relations disaster. Baatchit (Akhilesh Yadav): Bhavishya Mein Aise Dange Nahin Honge To a question on his father Mulayam Singh Yadav becoming PM, the 39-year-old Chief Minister tells that “anything is possible”. Rashtra (Gujrat): Modi Ke Darwaje Per Pahooncha Kanoon Ahmedabad court convicts former minister in Modi’s government, establishing for the first time a direct link between the Sangh Parivar and the 2002 Gujarat riots. Apradh (Bihar): Kishoron Mein Badhti Haivaniyat Video of girl raped by schoolmates turns spotlight on escalating rate of sex crimes by teenagers in India. Khel (Cricket): Cricketron Ki Agli Pidhi Ka Aagaaj Unmukt Chand, Harmeet Singh and Baba Aparajith brought India the Under-19 World Cup. They may well be Team India’s future.
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