Delaying tactic?

The Comptroller and Auditor General’s reports on RIL’s D6 block entered the pubic domain only on the last day of the monsoon session (together with the one on Air India). Bizarrely, almost a week after the scathing report on production sharing contracts was tabled in Parliament, the ministry of petroleum and natural gas is still waiting for the report to be officially delivered. Indeed, tabling the report is not considered enough for the government to take action. Procedure demands that it be sent to the ministry concerned as well. Every government makes much of procedures, sometimes for delaying decisions and sometimes for burying issues.