The CAG has urged the Railways to arrange for enroute refilling of coaches, especially for long-haul journeys and at stations that consistently draw higher numbers of complaints.
In a report on Delhi Liquor policy, CAG has pointed out that Delhi's excise department issued licenses to wholesalers despite compliance lapses.
The high court's direction came while closing the proceedings of a plea seeking direction to CAG to audit the accounts of DJB whose financial audit has allegedly not been carried out for the last several years.
Actual revenue receipts fell short of the RE by Rs 1.86 lakh crore (9.35 percent). As a result of this shortfall, despite compression of revenue expenditure as compared to the RE by Rs 1.42 lakh crore (5.94 percent), the actual revenue deficit was higher than anticipated by Rs 43,440 crore, CAG has found
In its report for the year ending March 31, 2016, the CAG said the railways was unable to meet its operating cost and that during 2015-16, it had incurred losses to the tune of Rs 36,286.33 crore on passenger and other coaching services.
Clearing the air on audit of the firm providing IT backbone for GST, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday said the Comptroller and Auditor General of India will audit the Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN).
A key Parliamentary panel on June 6 slammed telecom and finance Ministries for "inefficient functioning" of some units, as it examined a CAG audit showing Rs 12,488 crore loss to exchequer due to under-reporting of revenue by six firms including Airtel, Vodafone and RCOM
“We are public service utility company and we work for benefit of consumers and are accountable to Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) according to the Electricity Act," said Praveer Sinha, MD & CEO of Tata Power Delhi Distribution.
The Supreme Court has been hearing a petition by BSES seeking an upward revision in power tariffs.
"Power companies are indulging in wrong doings to create panic they are trying to blackmail us," he said. Referring to a meeting called by the chief secretary with power companies, Kejriwal said, "We will bring other companies. There are not only two companies in the country.