RTI Activists and The StatesMan newspaper have unearthed the massive Thorium Mining Scam which according to the 137 Year Old newspaper is of Rs 48 Lakh Crore. Anyway, we’ll leave it to the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General to assess.
Highlights of the Thorium Mining Scam in India,
Public sector Indian Rare Earths Limited having divisions at Chatrapur in Orissa, Manavalakurichi in Tamil Nadu, Chavara and Aluva, and its own research centre in Kollam in Kerala, is the only institution authorised to extract thorium from monazite sands. If the Comptroller and Auditor-General were to audit the accounts of the IREL and the Department of Atomic Energy, custodians of fissile minerals, the coalgate scam would look like small change. The missing thorium, conservatively estimated at $100 a tonne, works out to about Rs 48 lakh crore, putting all other UPA scams in the shade.
Corrupt Congress Govts in Maharashtra and Center Operate Hand in Glove
The Licencing Authority is the Nagpur-based Chief Controller of Mines, under the Union Ministry of Mines. Ever since CP Ambrose, Chief Controller of Mines, an upright officer, retired on 30 June 2008, the post has been deliberately kept open and Ranjan Sahai, Controller of Mines, Central Zone, alleged to be close to private placer mineral industrialists, has been allowed to officiate in place of the Chief Controller.
Sahai is said to be the most favoured public functionary of the Union Ministry of Mines working in the field, enjoying dictatorial clout with all officials in the ministry. Several written public complaints against Sahai are pending with the Central Vigilance Commissioner, New Delhi. It is reliably learnt that the Departmental Promotion Committee has already selected an officer working in Nagpur to fill the post of Chief Controller of Mines but his appointment is being prevented by Sahai. Such is his clout in the Ministry of Mines.
Export of beach sands registered a quantum jump after 2005. As if to promote exports, even radioactive minerals, much needed for our nuclear energy programme, are allowed to be taken out of the country unchecked. To add insult to injury, private exporters of prohibited minerals are presented with Special Awards and Certificates of Merit by the Chemicals and Allied Products Export Promotion Council of the Government of India. Indiscriminate mining, if not monitored and regulated, can cause severe erosion in the coastal areas.
3 Months ago, 2G Scam Activist Subramaniam Swamy had written to the Prime Minister of India to look into the il-legal thorium mining scam of India.
Seriously shocking…. No words… Wonder what they do with that kind of money…
DELHI and PARLIAMENT
reflects that it has become nations biggest and unique NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INSTITUTIONALIZED CORRUPTION.(with Theory & PRACTICAL )
This scam is biggest scam why media is silent.i didnt find any enclosed by any media regarding this issue.only found in internet.\
media is concentrating only on price hike and coverage of Rahul visit but not showing any news about this scam.What a country where even media are also biased, no hope for this country.Lets try to remove this govt first and then see……..
I have seen a lot controversy in Kerala regarding mineral sand excavation and export. I thought it all about Titaniun Dioxide, a white colour dye. Now I know such a big issue and so much of controversy.It is infact all about Thorium sand, not Titanium Dioxide. Great fooling of the public by Goverments.
Scams are now part of our lives and we have become indifferent to them….Even share markets have stopped reacting to them…
they are eating our country like TERMITES…
50 lac crore is 25 times coal scam, 10 times fiscal deficit and half the whole country’s GDP in 2013…
SHAME ON CONGRESS… SHAME ON MEDIA… SHAME ON MANMOHAN… WILL NEVER EVER VOTE YOU AGAIN IN MY LIFE
If its continued eating our country money like minerals,2g or coal our country will not grown in future- media only will expose to all public