Missing coal: govt. to act based on panel’s report

Announcement made in the Assembly

The Tamil Nadu government will take action based on the report that will be submitted by a committee probing the issue of missing coal, amounting to about 2.38 lakh tonnes, from the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited’s (Tangedco’s) north Chennai power plant, Electricity Minister V. Senthilbalaji informed the Assembly on Tuesday. Though a preliminary report has been submitted to the State government in this regard, a detailed report is expected from the committee, he said. Taking a swipe at the erstwhile AIADMK regime, the Minister said though the previous government had said that a committee had already been constituted, the panel was set up only a few days before the counting of votes for the 2021 Assembly poll. Earlier in the day, legislators from the ruling DMK and the principal opposition, AIADMK, engaged in a heated debate, blaming each other of having caused a loss to the State exchequer by the “mismanagement” of the State’s electricity sector.