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PMK for probe into procurement of “inferior quality” coal

S. Ramadoss

MADURAI: A retired judge should conduct a probe into the procurement of “inferior quality” of coal for power production and also on uninterrupted power supply to certain major industries during power crisis, said Pattali Makkal Katchi founder-president S. Ramadoss on Saturday.

Addressing a press conference here, he charged that the government had not consulted even once technocrats and experts in the field of electrical engineering on the unprecedented power crisis. “The Chief Minister should appoint a person who concentrates fully on his portfolio and does the needed job for the people as Minister.”

Pointing out that sand quarrying was the most awful form of corruption prevalent in the State, he cited second sale and smuggling to other States as the reason for illegal quarrying and called for abolition of second sale.

Dr. Ramadoss wanted the government to take over sale of sand and opined that if it could employ educated youth to sell liquor there was nothing wrong in sand quarrying.

The PMK leader questioned the logic behind the approval of two Special Economic Zone projects within the prime urban locations when people in Chennai were fighting for residential spaces.

He wanted the government to make public details of the project, which was a joint venture with Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation.

Scores of people were moving in the T. Nagar area in Chennai with “fear of death” looming large on them as many buildings had been constructed violating the norms, he alleged in reference to the recent fire accident.

If the order passed by the High Court in August 2006 to demolish buildings constructed in violation of norms had been implemented, the fire accident would have been averted.

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