COAL INDUSTRY- Laissez - Faire for Neglect

in the recovery of dues from sonic defaulting dealers for investigation by the CBI. The Minister does not seem to have taken into account the tact that the FCI Board had itself taken the initiative in the matter; so there was no need to condemn the top management of the FCl for any lapse. But tin- Minister appeared to think that it was the FCI Board which was in the dock. To move from this to the announcement that the entire policy on marketing of fertilisers would he reversed and that the FCI set-up would he reorganised, was thoughtless.