Question : ENQUIRIES AGAINST CIL OFFICIALS



(a) whether a large number of criminal cases and departmental enquiries are pending against the officials working in Coal India Limited (CIL) as on March 31, 2007;

(b) if so, the details thereof, company-wise and category-wise;

(c) the total number of the officers suspended, company-wise; and

(d) the total number of charge sheeted officers to whom promotions have been given during the last three years and the reasons therefor ?

Answer given by the minister


THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COAL (DR. DASARI NARAYANA RAO)

(a) & (b) Number of criminal cases arising out of CBIinvestigations in the subsidiary companies of Coal India Limited (CIL) is given below. This includes regular cases under investigation and under prosecution in the Trial Court after obtaining sanction for prosecution from the competent authority.

Company No. of	Executi Non- Total No.
cases	ves executiv of
es officials
ECL 19 09 24 33 BCCL 92 82 65 147 CCL 52 108 65 173 WCL 18 09 09 18 NCL 00 00 00 00 SECL 09 14 04 18 MCL 07 01 07 08 CMPDIL 08 07 07 14 CIL 00 00 00 00 Total 205 230 181 411


Number of departmental inquiries arising out of vigilance cases as well as CBI cases in CIL and its subsidiary companies is as under:

Company No. Executiv Non- Total
of es executiv No. of
case es officia
s ls
ECL 18 22 17	39
BCCL 30 46 12	58
CCL 57 38 66	104
WCL 12 09 03	12
NCL 20 20 00	20
SECL 12 29 07	36
MCL 15 17 19	36
CMPDIL 00 00 00	00
CIL 07 07 00	07
Total 171 188 124	312


(c): Company-wise number of officers suspended out of CBI investigation/criminal cases/ vigilance related cases are as under:

Company No. of
officers
suspended
ECL 11
BCCL 19
CCL 17
WCL 01
NCL 00
SECL 03
MCL 03
CMPDIL 00
CIL 00
Total 54


In number of cases, suspension of officers have been revoked. However, inquiries against them are continuing. The above figures do not take into account suspensions by Management of CIL and its subsidiary companies on grounds other than those mentioned above.

(d) A charge-sheeted officer is not promoted during pendency of enquiry against him.