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.
Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta will introduce two reports by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) during the session.
The report on vehicular air pollution in Delhi, tabled by Chief Minister Rekha Gupta in the assembly, also flagged major policy gaps and poor coordination among agencies as key factors contributing to worsening pollution in the city
The CAG report highlights the difference there is between the claims made by the previous government and the ground reality.
The second day of the three-day assembly session began with chaos, as within minutes of commencement, several AAP MLAs, including LoP Atishi, got suspended for their sloganeering against the photo replacing row in the CM's office.
The three-day session will feature the election of the Speaker and Deputy Speaker, along with the presentation of 14 pending CAG reports on the previous AAP government's performance
The report claimed that several bidders operating at a loss were still granted licenses under the Arvind Kejriwal-led government.
Fraudulent disbursement of scholarships to ghost or fake beneficiaries amounting to Rs 1.17 crore, instances of providing pensions to deceased persons and widow pensions to male beneficiaries were found during the audit, the report said.
It is the constitutional responsibility of the Accountant General (AG) to carry out the audit of the state's finances and submit its observations, the minister said and rejected reports in certain quarters raising concerns about the government's failure to collect tax arrears, calling them baseless.
In a post in Hindi on X, Mallikarjun Kharge said that the Modi government's promise of enabling those wearing slippers travel by air has not been fulfilled "just like all their promises".
The glaring irregularities detected by the CAG must be addressed to enable the Ayushman Bharat scheme to provide affordable healthcare to the poor without any glitch
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has suggested the Uttar Pradesh government to investigate and fix responsibility in the matter that took place in 2014 as highlighted in its compliance audit report for the year ended March 2020.
The Authority made a payment against 1.59035 hectare land which was not actually available in respective khasras or verification reports, observed the CAG report
The debt increased by Rs 2,268.93 crore (6.98 per cent) from Rs 32,497.91 crore at the beginning of 2015-16 to Rs 34,766.84 crore at the end of 2019-20, said the report.
The state government provided budgetary support (equity, loans, grants and subsidies) and accepted liability of Rs 20,145.84 crore to 35 state public sector undertakings during the period for which their accounts were in arrears as of March 31, 2021.
The CAG report has pointers on how checks and balances must work to prevent excessive corruption in the future as India moves towards a 50 percent urbanisation rate
Its report, which was recently tabled in the UP Assembly, is depressing. It reveals how every rule that could be bent, was.
The shortage is so acute that in the absence of special ration, the calorie intake of the Indian Army soldiers posted in the remote snowy reaches has gone down by 82 percent, CAG said
Taking to Twitter, the chief minister said, "Five years of increased expenditure on schools, hospitals, water and power - all this while maintaining revenue surplus and improving Delhi's fiscal health...(sic)"
The issue of short-transfer and under-utilisation of cess collected in the Consolidated Fund of India for their dedicated accounts has been a recurring problem for many years.
“The Operating Ratio during 2016-17 had deteriorated to the lowest level of 96.50 percent since 2000-01 when it was 98.34 percent. Since Operating Ratio is a direct indicator of the working of Railways, the Ministry of Railways should also look into the various innovative ways for revenue generation and closely monitor the expenditure,” said the report.
CAG blames Indian Railways for serving ‘food unfit for human consumption’ in a recent report
Supreme Court today said it would consider the issue of maintainability raised by the Centre on a plea seeking an SIT probe into alleged irregularities in the purchase of an Agusta helicopter for VVIP use by the Chhattisgarh government and look into the CAG report on the matter.
A key Parliamentary panel, examining a CAG report on under-reporting of revenue by six telecom firms some years ago, has suggested that measures including carrying out raids on such companies should be considered and their accounts be checked periodically
Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has decided to take up the CAG report on the contentious AgustaWestland choppers issue apart from over half-a-dozen other defence-related matters