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1,039 acres gobbled up in 13 layouts out of 149 formed by Authority The report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has hinted at large-scale irregularities in the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) in recovering encroached land to the extent of 1,039 acres in its jurisdiction. Here are a few …
The Comptroller and Auditor General has rapped the B S Yedyyurappa and H D Kumaraswamy governments for “rampant” illegal denotification of land benefiting builders and companies during the 2007-11 period. “During 2007-11, the government denotified 123 acres and 15.5 guntas (one gunta is about 1,086 sq ft) after taking possession …
The illegal mining committed during 2006-11 in three districts of Karnataka has resulted in the state losing a revenue of Rs 3,414.45 crore and the government could recover only Rs 7.22 crore, a report by Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India said. In Chitradurga, Tumkur and Hospet divisions four …
Report endorses Lokayukta findings on loss to the State exchequer The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has almost endorsed the Karnataka Lokayukta report on illegal iron ore mining and pegged the total loss due to illegal exports of ore at Rs 15,245 crore from 2003 to 2010. Besides, …
Stating that Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) had not granted full access to KG-D6 block records to Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister M. Veerappa Moily, on Tuesday, told Parliament that CAG had said that since full access to KG-D6 records was pending, the Petroleum Ministry should …
Shillong: Glaring anomalies in the functioning of department of health and family welfare has deprived thousands of people of West Garo Hills with basic health care benefits ,revealed the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG). Holding the department of health and family welfare responsible for the deprivation of …
The Union Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) has had to scale down the specifications for buses run under its flagship programme, the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), to bridge the gap in demand and supply. On Wednesday, a senior official of the Ministry said unlike the accent on …
The Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission's seven-year voyage seems to have yielded little, at a great cost. And, says a performance audit of the programme by the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General ( CAG), the main reason has not been corruption or leakages but ennui and poor …
Thousands of unfinished projects, diversion of funds to the tune of . 115 crore and lack of accountability and monitoring were some findings of a CAG report on the Centre’s flagship urban renewal project, the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), implemented by state governments. The CAG report on …
The CAG has pointed out gaping loopholes in the implementation of the JNNURM, the Centre’s flagship urban infrastructure development scheme, ranging from diversion of funds to the tune of Rs115 crore to ineligible beneficiaries getting benefits, inadequate monitoring capacity and undue favours to contractors among several others. The Comptroller and …
This report contains the results of examination by Audit of ‘Denotification of lands by Government and Allotment of sites by Bangalore Development Authority’. The Performance Audit was conducted during February to July 2012 covering the period 2007-12 during which the Government had denotified 610-16½ acres of land at various stages …
Inordinate delays in project completion, diversion of around Rs 115 crore for other purposes, wasteful expenditures and ineligible beneficiaries getting benefits are among the several lapses found by CAG in implementation of UPA’s flagship urban infrastructure development scheme - Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). Government auditor CAG, in …
The Anil Ambani group’s Reliance Power has received the first stage forest clearance for the Chhatrasal coal block attached to the Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project, it a step closer to start extracting coal from the mine. The first unit Sasan project is scheduled to be commissioned in January. Two …
Following the tough stand taken by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) against buckling down to any conditions for undertaking audit of Reliance Industries Limited’s (RIL) KG-D6 oil and gas block, the Petroleum Ministry has asked RIL to submit itself to CAG audit warning that any further delay would be …
Asks Petroleum Ministry to withhold approvals for their failure to submit records Upset at the repeated failure of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) to submit for audit records and information relating to the Krishna Godavari D6 block, the Comptroller and Auditor-General has asked the Petroleum Ministry to withhold all approvals to …
Parliament’s standing committee on finance has summoned senior petroleum ministry officials to explain the revenue implication of falling gas production from Reliance Industries Ltd’s (RIL’s) D6 block in the Krishna-Godavari basin (KG-D6) and the company's demand to increase the price. Earlier this month, it had questioned the finance and revenue …
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has asked the oil ministry not to approve any more investments in Reliance Industries’s KG-D6 oil and gas block till the company submits all records of its spending in the Andhra offshore field till 2011-12 for scrutiny. In a November 9 letter to the …
New Delhi Amid the controversy over the pricing of gas at its KG-D6 block, Reliance Industries (RIL) has reiterated its demand for a steep hike in the price in a letter to the prime minister’s economic advisor C Rangarajan. Seeking what is called “import parity price” for domestically-produced gas, the …
The government has approved Reliance Industries’ plan to start drilling for developing a new area in KG-D6, the first major decision after Veerappa Moily took charge at the oil ministry late last month. The decision is seen as a shot in the arm for exploration companies, particularly Reliance Industries that …
Contrary to its assertion that it was ready for an audit by the CAG), RIL had sought to lay down conditions on an audit of the KG-D6 block, including one that the report should not be tabled in Parliament, making it virtually impossible for a “proper or transparent” audit to …
