The Chhattisgarh government will end the controversial coal transportation system requiring manual generation of no-objection certificate (NOC) that had landed two Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers in jail on extortion charges.
In the previous Congress regime, clearance norms for coal transportation from mines to users were changed. In July 2020, then geology and mining department director Sameer Bishnoi had notified the implementation of manual NOC for coal transportation, ending the earlier online process. However, no procedure was circulated in this regard, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) that probed the Chhattisgarh coal scam revealed in its investigation.
