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Coal Scam Case: All 22 accused denied bail, land in jail

Coal Scam Case: All 22 accused denied bail, land in jail Barapukuria Coal Mine. Photo: Star Our Correspondent, Dinajpur Our Correspondent, Dinajpur A Dinajpur court yesterday rejected bail applications of 22 Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Limited (BCMCL) officials, including its six former managing directors, and sent them to jail in a case over the disappearance of 1.45 lakh tonnes of coal from the mine. Special Judge Mahmudul Karim of the District and Sessions Judge s Court passed the order after the accused appeared before it seeking bail, said Court Inspector Israfil Hossain. On July 24,  2018, Md Anisur Rahman, manager (admin) of BCMCL, filed the case with Parbatipur Police Station against 19 officials of the coal mine in Dinajpur. After investigation, the Anti-Corruption Commission pressed charges against 23 BCMCL officials, including seven MDs, over the coal scam.

Discovery of magnetic iron ore reserve in Dinajpur

Discovery of magnetic iron ore reserve in Dinajpur Proper steps needed for commercial mining An iron ore sample from Dinajpur hangs in the air when attached to a magnet. Photo courtesy: Author He holds a piece of the rock sample and brings it near to a magnet bar. Instantly, the rock sample gets attached to the magnet and hangs on to it when the magnet bar is held up in the air. This is magnetite ore, a magnetic iron-rich mineral valued worldwide for its content, and we have just discovered a big reserve of this mineral only 450 metres below the surface at Alihat, Hakimpur Upazila, Dinajpur, said Mohammad Masud, a geoscientist working with the Geological Survey of Bangladesh (GSB), a government organisation dedicated to the discovery of natural mineral resources. This was disclosed in a programme last week arranged by the GSB and sponsored by the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources aiming at exchange of ideas with national experts and academicians about the discove

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Scaling back coal-based power plants: A step in the right direction

The government s plan, as reported in the media, to reduce the number of coal-based power plants and thus the amount of power to be generated using coal, brings relief to the concerns of environmentalists, scientists and the general public who have been campaigning against major coal use due to the danger it poses to the environment and human health. Be it for the failure to collect funds for the projects or for environmental concerns, the plan, if agreed upon, will take Bangladesh closer to the sensible world, whose policies tend to downsize and eventually discontinue coal as a major source of primary energy. There is no official statement yet and the decision is pending for a nod from the highest authority of the Government. Media sources, however, report that the government may scale down the number of large coal-based power plants to only five and scrap the other 13 in the pipeline.

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