The CBI and the bureaucrat

The Kumar Mangalam Birla affair once again raises fundamental issues with regard to the role of the civil servant in controversial government decisions. Retired Coal Secretary P.C. Parakh is in serious trouble with the Central Bureau of Investigation over the 2005 award of a coal block to Hindalco headed by Kumar Mangalam Birla; a screening committee headed by Mr. Parakh had earlier endorsed the Neyveli Lignite Corporation, a public sector unit, for the allotment. 

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