CAG has copies of missing coal files.

New Delhi: A senior official of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has said that the auditor is in possession of all the “key documents” related to the allotment of captive coal blocks between 1993 and 2012. The official did not want to be identified.

CAG audited the entire process of coal block allotments and came out with a report last year that said the process was flawed and possibly fraudulent, and had caused the government exchequer a notional loss to the tune of Rs.1.86 trillion.

“It is our practice to retain copies of all the key documents pertaining to an audit report. These are the documents that are crucial to the report,” the CAG official said.

On Tuesday, the government said that it will make “all possible efforts” to locate the files that went missing.

“As the investigation progresses, if additional documents are called for by CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation), the ministry would supply them to CBI and if any document is not available, it shall make every effort to trace and supply the same to CBI,” coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal said in a written statement to the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. 

 

 

 

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