Make official files electronic, public

Here's how to tackle all the issues arising from the missing coal scam files: make all official files electronic and, further, public, whenever state secrets are not involved. The Comptroller and Auditor General had, presumably, gone through all the relevant documents before it arrived at its estimate of undue benefit (not loss to the exchequer) of Rs 1,86,000 crore to private companies. It is entirely likely that copies of the files in question are available with it.

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