Coalgate. Part Two. October 27, 2014 · by m rajshekhar Last week, the NDA’s Coal Mines (Special Provisions) Ordinance, 2014, was greeted rapturously. Comforting a country facing coal shortages, it laid out a road map for ensuring coal supplies in the wake of the Supreme Court’s order last month cancelling captive coal-block allocations. But will the ordinance fix the mess left behind by the previous captive coal-block allocation policy? As the answers to these five questions show, it’s a short-term fix — and not even the best at that — but not a long-term solution. one more reform measure of the NDA promises a lot but, ultimately, looks like it will change nothing. Share this:Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Related
