The Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) has determined to conduct a particular investigation into all issues associated to the method of importing coal to the nation through the previous 5 years. The Chairman of the COPE Committee, Member of Parliament Dr. Nishantha Samarawira, said that audit studies pertaining to the related interval can be used as the idea for this in depth investigation.
This investigation will primarily give attention to whether or not correct tender procedures have been adopted through the import of coal over the previous 5 years and whether or not these actions have been performed with full transparency. Moreover, a full inquiry might be performed into the exterior and inner events concerned in these transactions, and committee sources point out that present and former officers of state establishments associated to coal import are anticipated to be summoned earlier than the COPE Committee for questioning.
Extreme allegations have been made by numerous events concerning two latest shipments of coal imported for the Lakvijaya energy plant, and scientific checks performed on this regard revealed that the coal samples have been of substandard high quality. Primarily based on this controversial incident, the federal government promptly determined to impose fines on the suppliers who offered the substandard coal inventory.
