Coal ministry hasn’t taken due responsibility as watchdog for CMPFO: Parliamentary panel

A parliamentary panel has said the coal ministry has not taken due care of its responsibility as a watchdog for CMPFO, and stressed that financial irregularities could have been avoided if the government had been vigilant enough in monitoring the activities of the Coal Mines Provident Fund Organisation (CMPFO). CMPFO is a body that takes care of social security of coal mines workers.

“The committee (PAC) notes that the Ministry of Coal has been apparently found severely wanting in discharging its nodal administrative role, which resulted in financial mis-management by CMPFO,” according to a recent report of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), chaired by Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury.