Question : SUPPLY OF POOR QUALITY OF COAL



(a) whether there are reports of irregularities being committed by the officers of Coal India Limited and its subsidiaries including Western Coal Fields Limited and South Eastern Coalfields Limited by supplying underweight and inferior quality of coal to users;

(b) if so, the details of such cases received by the Government during the last three years and the current year, subsidiary-wise; and

(c) the action taken by the Government against the guilty officers in each case?

Answer given by the minister


MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COAL (SHRI PRATIK PRAKASHBAPU PATIL )

(a)to (c) : Information is being collected and will be laid on the Table of the House.