-The Hindu Kozhikode: An audit report of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) has slammed the State government for non-performance and poor maintenance of records in implementing the scheme from 2007 to 2012. The performance audit report, prepared by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) and tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, revealed "delays ranging from four to six years in framing rules.'' "There were significant variations between...
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Public-pvt partnerships to fall under RTI ambit -Aditi Nigam
-The Hindu Business Line Fresh guidelines issued on procurement details, disclosure of CAG reports Public-private partnerships (PPPs) will soon come under the ambit of the RTI (right to information) as per a fresh set of guidelines issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) on April 15. According to the guidelines on suo motu disclosure under Section 4 of RTI Act, 2005, the DoPT says since public services are proposed to be...
More »Irregularities in implementation of national rural employment scheme: CAG audit report -Swati Mathur
-The Times of India LUCKNOW: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India tabled the second performance audit of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Parliament on Tuesday. The first performance audit was undertaken in 2007-08. The period of coverage of the first audit was February 2006 to March 2007. The present performance audit of the implementation of MGNREGA was taken up in response to a request from the ministry...
More »Government auditor's (CAG) report says funds bungled in flagship rural employment scheme-Shamik Ghosh
-NDTV Employment under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act or MNREGA has declined, while Rs. 128 crore have been misused and work worth a staggering Rs. 4000 crore is incomplete, the government's auditor has alleged in its review of the rural job scheme that the Congress-led UPA government counts as one of its most significant achievements in the last nine years of rule at the Centre. In its report...
More »All coal blocks awarded after 1993 illegal: Panel Task force on coal beneficiation to submit its report soon -Sanjay Dutta & Mohua Chatterjee
-The Times of India All coal blocks distributed between 1993 and 2008 were done in an unauthorized manner and allotment of all mines where production is yet to start should be cancelled, the Standing Committee on Coal and Steel has said in its latest report that is slated to be tabled in Parliament on Tuesday. The committee, headed by Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee, has also recommended that all "personnel" who have...
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