Seattle Daily Star

 In a massive operation, the Cachar Police has been successful in arresting eight individuals along with two trucks illegally loaded with coal. They have been arrested for transporting Coal without requisite documents and permit. Following their arrest on Wednesday evening, a gathering of around a hundred locals gheraoed the Gumra PIC, which further led to lathi charge. Late night on April 20, the Police officers from the Gumra check post stopped two trucks to check their papers. When they didn’t find any proper papers for the coal they were transporting, they seized both the trucks along with eight individuals. One Tata truck bearing number AS 19AC 4459, along with that, one Tata Magic truck were seized with illicit coal. The next day, when the Gumra Police were preparing to produce the eight coal smugglers to the court of Magistrate in Silchar, around 100 men and women gheraoed the Gumra PIC. These locals tried to create a ruckus outside the police station. They demanded to relea...

  A scheme guaranteeing subsidised coal for MSMEs was formulated in 2007–08 under the Manmohan Singh govt. Its implementation in Gujarat has spawned allegations of corruption. Ahmedabad: As an MSME, Ahmedabad-based Modern Rubber Industries was eligible for cheap coal — at much below the market rates — under a central government scheme meant to boost this segment of industry. The company did approach an agency appointed by the Gujarat government to implement the scheme, but claimed to have received coal at the market price. Anmol Traders, an MSME brick kiln, had a different experience. The Gandhinagar-based company said it purchased coal from a trader associated with another agency engaged for the scheme, in 2015, but was offered prices higher than the market rates. Meanwhile, even though A&F Foods is listed as a beneficiary of the scheme (2017–18), it told ThePrint it had never dealt with any of the coal agencies tasked with implementing the scheme. In Gujarat, a shadow looms ...