BHUBANESWAR: Even after one and half years of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik writing to the Centre questioning its decision to allocate four coal blocks of the State to Western Coalfields Limited (WCL), the Ministry of Coal is yet to take a call on the issue.“The Coal Ministry is in no mood to reconsider its decision. If the State Government stood firm on its decision, the only choice left with the Ministry is re-auction of the four blocks,” highly placed sources familiar with the development said.
The contentious issue was flagged during the meeting between Coal Secretary Sumanta Chaudhuri, and Coal India CMD Anil Kumar Jha with Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy here on Friday.
