Naveen Washes Hands Bhubaneswar : 18/October/2013 Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has once again proved that he too knows how to save himself and this time by an intelligently worded Press Note Naveen washed off his in the Coalgate scam and threw balls to the Centres Court by playing with English language. EXAMINE is the key word for Naveen which proves he is innocent. The BJD Supremo has made it clear that he did not made any recommendation to give coal block to Hindalco, rather he urged the Prime Minister to “examine” the application made by Aditya Birla Group Chairman. While defending his stand , Naveen said he urged the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to ‘examine expeditiously’ the plea of Aditya Birla Group company Hindcalco for allotment of a coal block in the state, which is under the CBI scanner. He justified writing the letter to the PM by saying that it was done keeping the best interests of Odisha in mind. “I had urged the Prime Minister to examine Hindalco’s request for coal block … but as per the procedure for coal block allocation, the final decision rests with the central government,” Naveen told reporters here Naveen on August 17, 2005 had written a letter to the Prime Minister saying “I would strongly urge you to have the matter examined so that this vitally important project is provided with required coal linkage at an early date.” A copy of the letter was released by the Chief Minister’s office today. Hindalco had applied for coal block Talabira-II coal block in the IB valley in Jharsuguda district. “I repeat again, the letter that was written to the central government was to examine the request of Hindalco and I want to clarify that the job of allocating coal block lies with the central government,” he said. “And no information at all has been received from CBI about questioning or otherwise”, Naveen said. The company was setting up an aluminium smelter of a capacity of 260,000 tonnes per annum in Sambapur district adjoining Jharsuguda for which a captive power plant of 900 MW capacity was needed, a statement by the CMO said. Since power was a major raw material for an aluminium project, the Chief Minister said such a project had the added benefit of promoting value addition in the state, thereby adding to the state’s revenue and generating employment. The state government had all along held that higher priority be given to units adding more value in the state instead of sending the raw material to some other states, he said adding Talabira-II was allocated jointly to MCL, NLC and Hindalco in November 2005 by the Central Government. The Chief Minister said in his letter to the Prime Minister that Odisha Government was actively encouraging mineral-based industries to promote socio-economic development of the state. In the aluminium sector, the State Government signed an MoU with M/s Hindalco (Aditya Birla Group), the letter to the Prime Minister said.
Posted on: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 09:16:24 +0000
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