Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Even after seven years, the policy is yet to be finalised Comptroller and Auditor General of India criticised Odisha Government for its inability to frame a mineral policy of its own and pointed out large scale irregularities in the mineral sector. “Audit scrutiny of records relating to formulation of State …
The state government’s much-hyped solar policy has come in for sharp criticism by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), who has rapped the state for awarding solar projects to “ineligible bidders” and for creating excess burden of Rs 473 crore on power consumers in the state. “As per …
RAIPUR: The Comptroller of Auditor General (CAG) has pulled up the Chhattisgarh Tourism Board (CTB) for "inadequate planning" in construction of motels in the state and has said that the delays had caused an avoidable expenditure of over Rs 12 crores. In fact the CAG has reported that the project …
PANJIM: Even as PWD Minister Ramkrishna Sudin Dhavalikar announced that there would be a reduction in the non-revenue water (NRW) from the present 35 to 20 per cent by December 2014 end, the Government has already suffered a revenue loss of Rs 77.37 crore in 2012-13. The comptroller auditor general …
Chandigarh, July 24: The quality of water of the Sutlej is deteriorating at a fast pace as the much-publicised Sutlej Action Plan (SAP) has failed to yield any result, said a report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India. The water of the river has been degrading by …
This Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India contains the results of audit of Forest, Ecology, Environment and Wildlife Department. The report has been laid on the table of the State Legislative Assembly on 25.07.2014.
CAG Report Also Holds RSPCB Responsible For Apathy The threat of biomedical waste looms large over the Pink City. The healthcare facilities are openly flouting the rules governing handling and storage of bio-medical waste and disposing waste in a manner which is sending carcinogenic gases in the air posing severe …
The Goa tourism department lost interest of 87.88 lakh by keeping 4 crore of central government funds in a current account of State Bank of India for a period of 38 months, the CAG report for the year ended March 31, 2013 said. The report was tabled in the Goa …
The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) on Tuesday got a rap from the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) for neither formulating environmental standards nor preparing any comprehensive programme for prevention, control or abatement of water pollution in the State. The CAG report, for the year 2013 tabled in …
The environment in Punjab continues to be a casualty as the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) — the State’s nodal agency to control pollution — has neither formulated required environmental standards, nor prepared a comprehensive programme to check water pollution in the State. Even the interrupted flow of funds left …
New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal’s eastern zone bench has issued a notice to the Meghalaya government over a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on air, water and environmental pollution in the state. Gauhati High Court had in 2012 taken suo moto action on the CAG report which had …
Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on social, general and economic sectors (non-public sector undertakings). The report has been laid on the table of the Punjab State Legislature Assembly on 22-07-2014.
Imphal: The overall detection of HIV positive cases in Manipur rose from 25,919 in March 2007 to 40,855 in March 2012, indicating the serious magnitude in the state, according to a copy of the CAG report. This was in spite of incurring an expenditure of Rs 43.39 crore for implementation …
Country's forest cover has increased by only about 2,000 sq km over 2010-2012 (a 0.29% increase) and not by 5,871 sq km, as the recently released "Indian State of Forest Report 2013" claims India's forest cover has increased by only about 2,000 sq km over 2010-2012 (a 0.3 per cent …
This report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India contains the results of the performance audit of pricing mechanism of major petroleum products in central public sector oil marketing companies. The audit covered the period from 2007-08 to 2011-12.
SHILLONG: The State Forest department is distressed over the mushrooming of small-scale illegal saw mills all along the Meghalaya-Assam border and in several other locations across the State despite continued efforts to crackdown on the same. A high ranking official of the State Forest department, while speaking to reporters on …
KOCHI: A 19-storeyed apartment complex, constructed in Kundannoor, violating coastal regulation zone (CRZ) norms; a four-storeyed building in Aluva without toilets, parking area or rainwater harvesting facility; and a 10-storeyed complex built just four meters away from the waterfront in Tripunithura. These are some of the realty projects found flouting …
Violating guidelines set by the union ministry of environment and forests, the West Bengal government failed to conduct annual tiger census and could not even utilise the Centre’s funds under Project Tiger, the CAG has said. “Ministry of Environment and Forest did not release Rs 6.21 crore under centrally sponsored …
The audit report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), which had pointed out violations in building permits given to constructions in Kochi, also brought to notice violations in construction activities in the conservation zone of Fort Kochi. The report found that Kochi corporation gave permits for building construction in …
BHUBANESWAR: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has recommended to the state government to streamline the procedure for allocation and utilization of water for irrigation, domestic use and industrial consumption after detecting that drinking water supply to majority of urban areas and irrigation facilities to nearly all of the state's …
