PM in meeting with energy officials on coal mine scam

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Bangla Tribune Report
Published : 19:40, Jul 25, 2018 | Updated : 19:40, Jul 25, 2018

The mine’s coal yard should have had a stock of 146,000 tonnes, but in reality, it was only 3,000 tonnes.After the PetroBangla panel filed its findings over the disappearance of more than 140,000 tonnes of coals from the Barapukuria mine, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called top energy officials at her office for an emergency meeting.
Sources confirmed that several officials, including State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid, secretaries to the energy and power divisions, Power Development Board chief and PetroBangla chairman have gone to the PMO.
Earlier on Wednesday, 19 former and current officials of Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Limited (BCMCL), including its managing director have been sued over the disappearance of 145,000 tonnes coal.
Authorities at Bangladesh’s only thermal power plant in Dinajpur’s Barapukuria were forced to shut electricity generation late on Sunday as the mine failed to supply the required fuel.
The next day, PM Hasina held a meeting with her Energy Affairs Adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, State Minister Nasrul Hamid and PetroBangla Chairman Abul Mansur Md. Faizullah.
The Anti-Corruption Commission has also opened an inquiry and on Tuesday, has written to the immigration authorities over a travel ban on four mine officials — the managing director, two general managers and a deputy general manager.

 






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