Captive Coal block monitoring: a complete eye wash...

Anyhow the long awaited reply from CCO ( Coal Controller Organization ) finds its destination. I called back Mr Panda, director CCO to enquire about the answer but he had revealed the unimaginable. They do not monitor the associated end use project and if coal production starts early ( he is sure that it wont be) then the coal ministry will take a call how to best use that coal or at best they will transfer the coal to one of the CIL subsidiaries. How rubbish!!! So it is now very clear after one get the coal block , it may not necessarily go for end use project development , rather it would mine coal and sell in the open market and this has been the practice of many and at best they can divert the coal to other end use project because virtually there is no one to monitor.CCO is there but for the namesake only. According to the director CCO, it is very hard to maintain the data and they do not have a proper database to maintain the data. Even coal companies are not providing them the required data and they are yet to get any data for their quarterly review of the projects.But I wonder if CCO do not have the required data then how can they provide the status report for the coal ministry's review on June 22, 2009.Captive coal development remains one of the black hole, after the coal block is allocated to any party, they become the unsaid owner of the block and use the block according to their use. MoC is not very strict on monitoring the coal block development as well as milestone of the associated end use project. All the review meetings and threatening are nothing but a completely eye wash to the public at large.