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. …
Gomti is more polluted than Ganga, reveals the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) report that was tabled in Vidhan Sabha on Thursday. It also said that Lucknow air is more polluted than Varanasi, and Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) is conducting inadequate monitoring of air pollution. The …
The Gomti river in Lucknow is even more polluted than the Ganga in Varanasi, a CAG report has revealed. The CAG, which studied the pollution levels in the two cities from 2011 to 2015, said the temple town, despite having a higher population density, had performed better than the state …
DEHRADUN: A Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report tabled in the state assembly recently has pointed at a massive lack of funds available with the state forest department to control jungle fires. The report observes that the fund crunch translates into shortage of essential fire-fighting equipment, vehicles, communication devices and …
Taking note of Tuesday's TOI report highlighting lack of preparedness in fighting dengue and chikungunya in the city, the high court on Tuesday demanded answers. The news article which cited a recent CAG report placed in Delhi Assembly last month was referred to by a bench of Acting Chief Justice …
Dodoma — Tanzania may not fully benefit from its substantial oil and gas discoveries due to myriad loopholes in the management of the resource, the National Audit Office has warned. In the latest audit report, the Controller and Auditor General, Prof Mussa Assad, punched holes in the oil and gas …
Jaipur: Scrutiny of records of mining department by Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) validated the rampant corruption existing in the department. Findings indicated that officials in cahoots with mine owners in flouting norms and giving undue benefits to them. In the audit, it was observed that applicants were …
Though the government is taking numerous measures to cut down on environmental pollution levels, an audit report by the Comptroller and the Auditor General of India (CAG) has indicated that existing power plants in the country are not adhering to the norms meant to safeguard ecological interests. The CAG report, …
The Performance Audit on ‘Environmental Clearance and Post Clearance Monitoring’ examined whether the process of grant of EC was carried out in a timely and transparent manner, in respect of environmental clearances granted during the calendar years 2011 to July 2015, and the monitoring of compliance with the environmental clearance …
Coal cost constitutes 60 to 70 percent of the total generation tariff of coal based power stations and has significant impact on cost of supply of power to consumers. Keeping this in view, a performance audit of fuel management in coal based power stations of NTPC Limited was taken up. …
The Report contains the results of audit examination of the implementation of the Restructured Accelerated Power Development and Reforms Programme by the Ministry of Power and State power utilities. The Restructured Accelerated Power Development and Reforms Programme (R-APDRP) was launched in December 2008 as a continuation of the Accelerated Power …
New Delhi: The under-reporting of dengue cases, highlighted in the CAG report—carried in TOI on Monday—is merely a symptom of the chronic illness Delhi's government and civic bodies suffer from. An analysis of the audit reveals a rot at all levels of planning and action as far as containment of …
The Mahanadi water dispute issue returned to haunt the Biju Janata Dal government in Odisha Assembly on Monday with the Opposition legislators stalling the proceedings over Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s statement over the issue. The House witnessed several adjournments during the day with the Opposition alleging that Mr. Patnaik had …
Delhi has been hugely under-reporting dengue cases and deaths, says a report of the comptroller and auditor general on the preparedness of the city govern ment, municipal bodies and others in control and prevention of the disease. The report comes in the midst of a chikungunya and dengue outbreak, with …
Mangaluru City Corporation not collecting solid waste management (SWM) cess from public places of worship in the city has now come under the scanner of the office of Comptroller and Auditor General of India. Sources in the corporation told The Hindu that the CAG, which audited the accounts of the …
AHMEDABAD: The Urban Local bodies which have a green belt ranging from 0.2% to 4.8% of the Geographical area have made no effort to increase the green cover despite the government deciding to enhance the green cover in the cities by five percent. The Government in order to increase the …
Guwahati, the gateway to the North Eastern Region (NER) of India is the largest and fastest growing commercial and industrial centre in the Region. The pressure of the ever increasing human population and expanding commercial and industrial activities has resulted in generation of enormous municipal as well as other wastes …
MUMBAI: The CAG report has rapped the Maharashtra government for not utilising the green cess fund which is deducted from the sale of electricity by the state government to industrial and commercial consumers. The CAG report said that the Rs 2,315 crores of the proceeds collected by the Maharashtra government …
MUMBAI: A CAG report has pointed out that Maharashtra has a huge potential for the development of solar energy, given that it gets 250 to 300 days of clear sun. However, despite the potential of 64,320MW assessed by the ministry of new and renewable energy, the state government had not …
State does not have mechanism to check ore grades and quantity; DMG suffers `22 crore loss on account of non-collection of various fees PANJIM: The repeated claims of environmentalists of the State government lacking a proper mechanism to check the grade of iron ore and the quantity declared by the …
This Report deals with the results of audit of 83 Government companies and four Statutory Corporations for the year ended 31 March 2015 for submission to the Government of Maharashtra under Section 19 A of the Comptroller and Auditor General’s (Duties, Powers and Conditions of Service) Act, 1971, as amended …
