-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...

-Live Mint CERC calls for a variable ‘compensatory tariff' to be offered to Adani Power till fuel situation stabilizes In an unprecedented move, India's apex power sector regulator offered a bailout package to Adani Power Ltd in a late Tuesday order to offset losses on account of the unexpected increase in the prices of imported coal and the unavailability of domestic coal for the company's 4,620 megawatts (MW) thermal power project at...

-The Indian Express Report finds govt did not recover dues of Rs 750 cr from distributors. At a time when the opposition BJP plans to intensify protests against power tariff in Delhi, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India's report for the 2011-12 fiscal has slammed the Delhi government for not recovering dues to the tune of Rs 750 crore from private distribution companies. The report, tabled on Tuesday in the Delhi...

-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...

-The Times of India The report of the comptroller and Auditor general (CAG) on the Delhi government for the year ended March 2012 is a scathing indictment of many departments and public utilities. Healthcare, transport, power, water and sewage and even showcase infrastructure projects and schemes have been put under the lens and the picture that has emerged is not all that pretty. The report was tabled in the Delhi assembly...