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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Consistent failure by all depts: CAG slams govt over Adarsh

Consistent failure by all depts: CAG slams govt over Adarsh

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published Published on Dec 24, 2011   modified Modified on Dec 24, 2011

-Express News Service

Branding the Adarsh scam a “classic example of the fence eating the crops” and “how a select and powerful elite could collude to subvert rules and regulations for personal benefit” , the Comptroller and Auditor General has slammed the government and officials in its audit of the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society.

The report, that was tabled in the Assembly on Friday, called the entire Adarsh episode a remarkable case study. “It is an example of those holding fiduciary responsibility betraying the same for personal aggrandisement.”

“It reflects a consistent failure across all departments, state and central governments and cross-section of officialdom. In the process of seeking apartments in a prime location for themselves, they have resorted to falsification of records, suppression of facts and abundantly used the avowed noble cause of welfare of ex-servicemen and their widows,” it said.

Not taking exemplary remedial and punitive action which would serve as a deterrent would seriously erode the credibility of the government, the report added.

The report details how public servants who have been entrusted to “safeguard national interest” facilitated “in the belief that cronyism would be rewarded” a private housing society to obtain NOC from the Army, modification to the MMRDA development plan, NOC of residential development in CRZ area and transfer to the society of development rights of adjoining land, in use by a public utility (BEST), with additional FSI.

Those in positions of responsibility should have sensed that ab initio, the concept was flawed as very few war widows or ex-servicemen would have had the financial capacity to pay for an apartment in such a prime locality, the CAG said.

However, the report added, razing it to the ground would compound the problem. An option would be for the building to be acquired by the government and used for government housing. Those society members who have paid may be compensated as per law. In case of genuine war widows and deserving ex-servicemen, the government could allot apartments to them as an independent gesture.

The promoters of the society were so confident of allotment of land, the report noted, that even before registration of the society and before handing over of the site, they wrote for additional FSI from the adjacent land.

From the very beginning, the welfare of servicemen and ex-servicemen in one form or the other was used as a ruse to grab this piece of public land. In February 2000, the society submitted a proposal to the chief minister for allotment of 3854 sq m of land in Block VI Back Bay Reclamation (BBR) for construction of a residential building.

According to the Collector, Mumbai city, this land was reclaimed land and was in the possession of the Defence authorities since 1940. The Collectorate was aware in 1989 that the land was in the possession of the Army because of correspondence on a proposal for construction of a rest house for ex-servicemen on the same plot, the report said. “It is evident that the collectorate was also aware that the land did not have any city survey number and the military area and jurisdiction began from this piece of land.”

Almost at every stage, significant concessions were extended by the Maharashtra government in favour of the society. Many officers, civilian and services, who were dealing with the case and were instrumental in taking those decisions eventually became members of the society, the CAG said.

The Indian Express, 24 December, 2011, http://www.indianexpress.com/news/consistent-failure-by-all-depts-cag-slams-govt-over-adarsh/891479/


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