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Forty-six per cent of sewage generated in Delhi is flowing into the Yamuna untreated through storm water drains, said a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India that was tabled in the House meeting of Delhi Assembly today. Out of the total 680 MGD sewage produced in …
CAG state audit report NCT has also unearthed a glaring lack of planning cutting across projects, sectors It may be India's capital city, but behind the New Delhi’s storied corridors of power and flush coffers, the metropolis is a difficult mess for the ordinary citizen. The Comptroller and Auditor General’s …
New Delhi: Against a demand of 1,025 million gallons per day of water, Delhi is getting only 818mgd of treated water. By 2021, the demand is expected to touch 1,216mgd. Over Rs 600 crore has been spent for augmenting water supply but none of the projects has come through. The …
This report deals with the results of audit of Government Companies and Statutory Corporations and has been prepared for submission to the Government of Gujarat under Section 19A of the Comptroller and Auditor General’s (Duties, Powers and Conditions of Service) Act, 1971, as amended from time to time. Audit of …
The Comptroller and Auditor General has pulled up the Orissa government for massive depletion of its tiger population despite the National Tiger Conservation Authority spending a huge amount of money for their protection. In its latest report on the implementation of Project Tiger in Orissa, the CAG has said the …
More embarrassment for Orissa government now. The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has found unlawful extraction of iron ore, manganese ore as well as coal in excess of approved limit without prior environment clearance (EC) in the state. The CAG findings come at a time when the Shah …
The report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), which was tabled in the Vidhan Sabha today, points out lacunae in the execution of works under the Pradhan Mantri Grameen Sadak Yojna. It says that notification for acquiring land for roads had been delayed. This had had serious fiscal implications …
JAMMU: While maintaining that State was moving forward in the right direction to minimize the fiscal deficit as per the guidelines laid down in the J&K; Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather today said that the Comptroller and Auditor General of India has also lauded …
The Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG) has completed the process of handing over four audit reports to the Chhattisgarh government. The first report was submitted on March 5 and the last on Monday, said a press release from the office of the Accountant-General (Audit) here. The CAG’s report on commercial mining …
The much awaited report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) tabled on the last day of the Budget session of the Harayana Vidhan Sabha on Monday is a severe indictment of the Bhupinder Singh Hooda Government’s propensity to release land notified for acquisition, in violation of the Land Acquisition …
Had Proposed To Charge 5.25/Unit After 100 Units Lucknow: The UP Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) plans to raise sagging revenue and reserve by hiking power tariff received a setback on Monday when the UP Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) set aside the annual revenue requirement (ARR) submitted by the corporation for …
Evidence of tampering with, overwriting & alteration of records The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), in a report tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, pointed out that several ineligible farmers were favoured and a large number of deserving small and marginal farmers left out in implementation of the United Progressive Alliance’s …
India has registered higher infant and child mortality rates than Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Further the country’s position on the measure of the percentage of underweight and severely underweight children during the period 2006-10 was more than twice than that in the Sub-Saharan African region. This was revealed in the …
New Delhi: The Rs 52,000 crore farm debt waiver scheme of the UPA has fallen flat, with the government’s official auditor, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), pointing to “serious lapses” in disbursal of benefits as well as specific instances of siphoning of funds under the scheme. The CAG performance …
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has issued notices to the Centre and four states asking about steps taken to prevent death of elephants on railway tracks passing through their habitat or cutting across their migration route. A bench of Justices K S Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra issued notices to the …
Private mining giants like Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton and others likely to partner with Coal India under a new public-private partnership (PPP) model in the works won’t have any ownership rights in these ventures but will do mining on a contractual basis for the PSU. Yet these mining companies, equipped …
The coal ministry has received around 316 applications, including 235 from power sector and 38 from mining companies, with regard to 17 coal blocks to be allotted to public sector firms. ‘‘We have received 316 applications with regard to 17 coal mines to be allocated to government companies/undertakings,’’ a government …
BANGALORE: Karnataka's forest cover shrunk by 797 sqkm between 2001 and 2011, in spite of massive afforestation programmes, the economic sector report of the CAG said. The several causes of destruction include encroachment and shortage of staff in the forest department. The report said 67,096 hectares of encroached forest land …
It seeks Petroleum Ministry’s intervention to ensure audit of KG-D6 block is not carried out under CAG (DPC) Act The Mukesh-Ambani-owned Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has written to the Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry seeking its intervention and an assurance that the audit of the KG-D6 block by the Comptroller …
NEW DELHI: Coal India Ltd (CIL) has gone out of its way to sign fuel supply pacts with 11 companies, including alleged Coalgate beneficiaries, even before these firms reached the qualifying milestones such as acquiring land, the state-run monopoly's internal anti-corruption watchdog has said. In a report to the coal …
