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. …
CHENNAI: Catching the small fry and letting go of the big fish has brought the state food safety department under the Comptroller and Auditor General of India's radar. The auditing body, in its latest report, rapped the commissionerate of food safety in Tamil Nadu - the biggest state department of …
New Delhi: Differences between the environment ministry and the finance ministry have become a roadblock to the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA). This authority was envisaged as an independent body that would manage a corpus — collected from industries that have used forest land for projects — …
This Report contains results of performance audit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, Units I and II. This Report highlights a number of deficiencies in the execution and commissioning of Units I and II of KKNPP such as avoidable payment of interest on borrowings, non-transparency in availing loans, lapses in …
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has indicted the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), a nodal central agency to implement the government's flagship 'Namami Gange' programme, for delay in executing the Ganga cleaning projects, non-utilisation of fund meant for river cleaning and lapses in monitoring. In its report on …
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has indicted the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), a nodal central agency to implement the government's flagship 'Namami Gange' programme, for delay in executing the Ganga cleaning projects, non-utilisation of fund meant for river cleaning and lapses in monitoring. In its report on …
The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 was enacted to consolidate multiple laws in the country relating to food safety, to establish a single point reference system, and to establish the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) for formulating science based standards for food and to regulate their …
After a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report found serious flaws in Centre’s environment clearance procedure, the union environment ministry has issued new directives for proper revalidation and comprehensive scrutinizing of applications that come for approvals. The report, in March this year, had criticized the environment impact assessment procedure followed …
THANE: An audit by the state comptroller and auditor general (CAG) has punched holes in the waste disposal process of the Thane civic body pointing out to financial losses to the tune of Rs 1.56 crore over the last few years. The report for 2016 released recently points out how …
BHUBANESWAR: THE Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has rapped Odisha Government for failing to develop adequate infrastructure in health and social sectors.As per the Indian Public Health Standards (IPHS), all hospitals providing service to neonates should have a 10-bed Newborn Care Ward (NCW) but there was no NCW in any …
The enforcement of bio-medical waste management (BMW) rules in municipal corporations in Maharashtra was found to be inadequate in the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2016. The CAG audited 22 health care establishments between 2011 and 2016. Five HCEs at Nashik and Mumbai did not segregate BMWs as …
PORVORIM: In what could trigger further trouble for iron ore mining lease holders in the State, the Comptroller Auditor General (CAG) has found the ore worth over Rs 1900 crore was illegally extracted by lease holders between 2009-2016 in violation of the mining plan and Environment Clearances (ECs). CAG has …
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has said in an audit report on the Food Corporation of India (FCI) that more than 4.72 lakh tonnes of wheat valued at Rs700.30 crore got damaged in Punjab till March 2016 due to delay in implementation of the private entrepreneur scheme which …
With a CAG report calling food served by Indian Railways “unfit for human consumption”, the Ministry of Railways has come out with a list of steps that it is taking to improve catering services. Stating that the provision of catering services for passengers with varied choices is an “onerous task”, …
GOI introduced the Modified National Agriculture Insurance Scheme (MNAIS) and implemented it on pilot basis in 50 districts from the Rabi season 2010-11. From the Rabi season 2013-14, GOI merged MNAIS and WBCIS into a new programme, the National Crop Insurance Programme (NCIP) replacing NAIS. However, at the request of …
This audit report on “Schemes for Flood Control and Flood Forecasting” by the Comptroller And Auditor General of India (CAG), examined whether schemes for flood control and flood forecasting were efficient and effective. It revealed delays in completion of projects under the flood management programmes. The Performance Audit on “Schemes …
This Report for the year ended March 2016 has been prepared for submission to the Governor of Karnataka under Article 151 of the Constitution of India for being laid in the State legislature. The Performance Audit Report contains 11 Chapters dealing with Administration of National Parks and Wildlife sanctuaries. Issues …
The Report contains the results of performance audit of disaster management activities of the Government of Jammu and Kashmir covering the period from 2010-11 to 2014-15 including the drought of 2009, the cloudburst in Leh of 2010 and the floods of September 2014. The Report covers the disaster management activities …
Earlier, the ministry of new and renewable energy had announced concessions and incentives to promote solar units. Hyderabad: The increasing popularity of solar power units in the commercial sector has forced the Centre to impose restrictions, including removal of the 30 per cent investment subsidy on allowing commercial establishments and …
BENGALURU: Groundwater in 29 out of 30 districts in the state is contaminated by one pollutant or the other but don't trust a quality testing laboratory to give you the accurate picture. The comptroller and auditor general (CAG) has red-flagged these laboratories for generating fake reports -by claiming to have …
The CAG report which studied the pollution levels in Lucknow and Varanasi from 2011 to 2015 has revealed that the Gomti river is more polluted than the Ganga. The Gomti river in Lucknow is even more polluted than the Ganga in Varanasi, a CAG report has revealed. The CAG, which …
