Coalgate is the controversy over coal blocks allotted without auctions from 1993 to 2011. The CAG estimated Rs 1.86 lakh crore in potential gains to private al…
No auctions for captive blocks.
States objected; delay began.
From discretion to auctions.
Rs 1.86 lakh crore estimate.
What Rs 1.86 lakh crore means.
Law Minister quits 10 May.
Arbitrary since 1993.
42 blocks got until March 2015.
Four numbers that matter.
Stayed by SC on 1 April.
29 mines auctioned by March.
Why verdicts differ.
Three years.
Three years, suspended on appeal.
Four years.
No iota of evidence.
Convictions and acquittals.
Closure reports accepted.
Trials must keep moving.
Three orders in five weeks.
Auctions replace discretion.
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