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. …
The Comptroller and Auditor General has said the Lake Development Authority and urban local bodies have taken up conservation and development of lakes in an "ad hoc manner" without proper coordination with each other. The results of performance audit showed that implementing agencies had taken up conservation and development work …
BHUBANESWAR: As the Forest and Environment department has failed to achieve its afforestation target during the last few years, the State Government has decided to take up plantation activities in convergence with MGNREGS funds. The district collectors have been directed to involve village committees in all plantation activities as per …
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has pulled up the petroleum ministry for allowing Reliance Industries (RIL) to charge marketing margins in dollars, while it should have been in rupees. The auditor feels the ministry is responsible for not developing a pipeline network in the country leading to …
The National Green Tribunal has issued notices to 71 hotels, dhabas and resorts for encroaching into the national park after CAG’s damning report After shocking revelations of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India about the dire state of management of Kaziranga National Park, home to one-horned rhinoceros, the National …
The National Green Tribunal has slammed the Assam government over a CAG report which has detected a number of lapses and anomalies by the state in maintenance of the Kaziranga National Park. “Our attention is drawn to the report of CAG published by the government of Assam… according to the …
The State-run Himachal Pradesh Power Corp’s mega hydropower project, being funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), not only faces a cost overrun of Rs606 crore but may also become commercially unviable, India’s official auditor has said. The purpose of the ADB giving the grant under its Clean Energy Development …
MUMBAI: Nearly 40% of deaths registered among girls (0 to 6 years) in the city between 2010 and 2014 have been due to lack of proper nutrition, revealed a central government report. The corresponding figure for Thane district was 64%. The findings stated that the Maharashtra government spent Rs 4,500 …
Much is being said about the new land acquisition law and the amendments proposed by the NDA government to make it easier for industry and publicprivate partnership projects.However, a study carried out by Comptroller and Auditor General last year on land acquired by the Centre between 2006 and 2013 the …
Shimla: Unscientific disposal of sewage and solid waste is threatening the pristine environment and water sources of the Queen of Hills, as Shimla was fondly called by the British colonial rulers. Its wooded deodars, Raj-style structures and chuckling peaks on the horizon may lure you, but it's not an easygoing …
Environment minister Prakash Javadekar's claim that all's well with the country's rhinoceros population is only half the story. While the population of the onehorned rhinoceros is on the rise -2,401 at the most recent count undertaken in March -instances of poaching too have increased, with nine rhinos being killed by …
Comptroller and Auditor General of India said untreated liquid waste was discharged into municipal drains as bio-medical waste (BMW) management in hospitals across Odisha was found to be insufficient. “The SPCB detected violation and non-compliance of the provisions of Bio-Medical Waste (Management and Handling) (BMWMH) Rules by 465 hospitals in …
Large-scale encroachment, aging guards, defective weapons, zero conviction of poachers are bane of KNP The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) had found loopholes in the management plans in Kaziranga National Park which have been abetting poaching activities in the Unesco World Heritage Site. “Deficiencies in funding adversely affected …
JAIPUR: Illegal mining has emerged as one of the biggest fountainheads of loss of revenue in the state with the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report being tabled in the assembly on Wednesday. The report stated 5,708 mining activities in nine offices out of 39 across the state are being …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was in Hussianiwala to pay tribute to freedom fighters Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru, reiterated that there is an effort to mislead the farmers of the country. In his speech at Ferozepur, the Prime Minister talked about the land bill and said that there is …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Anurag Modi S/o P.D. Modi Vs State of Madhya Pradesh dated 18/02/2015 regarding illegal mining in the State of Madhya Pradesh.
RTI activist Pradeep Pradhan on Sunday said the successive State Governments, including the incumbent Naveen Patnaik regime, have not framed any land allotment policy in last 50 years only to exercise discretionary power to allot Government land to people of their choice. Commenting on the land allotment irregularities revealed by …
Picking holes in the environment management by Indian railways, Comptroller and Auditor General of India has found there were no specific instructions by the Railway Board for installation of Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP) at workshops, sheds and production units of railways. Sludge from ETPs was disposed off in open area …
The report covering the four years period from 2008-09 to 2011-12 contains the results of the performance audit on `hyderocarbon production sharing contracts' at the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Directorate General of Hydrocarbons with respect to Blocks KG-DWN-98/3, Panna-Mukta, Tapti and RJ-ON-90/1, In addition, the results of …
This Report of Comptroller and Auditor General of India contains the results of performance audit of ‘Performance of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) during April 2013 to January 2014. The instances mentioned in this Report are those, which came to notice in the course of test audit for the period 2006-07 …
Modi himself will acknowledge contributions of over Rs 1 crore made by individuals and of over Rs 20 crore by corporates The government on Tuesday set up a Swachh Bharat fund to collect contributions from individuals and organisations for its clean India programme. A statement issued by the finance ministry …
