Conflict of interest PSU staff parked in Govt panel that has to appraise their PSU projects

NEW DELHI .IN what raises questions of conflict of interest, two PSU officials, one from National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC) and one from National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), are working full-time in the Impact Assessment (IA) division of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) that decides on environmental clearance of power projects, including those of these two PSUs. 
 
Last week, both Sagar and Singh attended at least one of the two meetings of the Expert Appraisal Committees constituted by the ministry’s IA division where three NTPC projects and one project in which NHPC has 49% stake were discussed.

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