-PTI GANDHINAGAR: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has come down heavily on the Gujarat government and state Public Sector Undertakings for causing a loss of nearly Rs 580 crore to the exchequer by bestowing "undue" favours to large corporate entities. The major industrial houses to whom the Narendra Modi government played the benefactor included Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), Essar Steel and Adani Power Ltd (APL), the report for year...
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RIL, Adani Power got undue favours from Gujarat PSUs
-The Business Standard CAG says GSPL did not safeguard its own interest leading to passing on of undue benefit of Rs 52 cr to RIL In what could add more teeth to the opposition party's allegations against the Narendra Modi-led Gujarat government, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG)'s latest report has brought out fresh details of undue favour by state Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) to Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and...
More »CAG rapped Bihar government for lack of plan on utilisation of funds
-PTI PATNA: CAG has ticked off Nitish Kumar government for lacking objective planning for utilisation of funds drawn on Abstract Contingency(AC) bills. The Bihar government had withdrawn Rs 16,033.01 crore on AC bills between 2009-12 of which the plan head drawals accounted for Rs 12,332.64 crore which indicated that object level planning was absent as items of expenditure were known while drawing the amount, CAG said in its report on state finances...
More »Review panel for health projects
-The Telegraph Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government proposes to set up review committees at village levels and urban areas to keep a tab on all health related programmes. The committees, which will have people from various walks of life, will do social audit of the projects being implemented in their areas. Health and family welfare minister Damodar Rout today said: "The committees will be set up in rural as well as urban areas. All...
More »CAG report on mining submitted to Chhattisgarh government-Suvojit Bagchi
-The Hindu Raipur: The Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG) has completed the process of handing over four audit reports to the Chhattisgarh government. The first report was submitted on March 5 and the last on Monday, said a press release from the office of the Accountant-General (Audit) here. The CAG’s report on commercial mining of coal blocks in Chhattisgarh last year indicated that the former BJP president, Nitin Gadkari’s close aide, Ajay Sancheti, had...
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