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Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
srinagar, Apr 15: After failing to act on the findings of audit reports, the government even did not make the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report public. The irony is that nobody knows where the report has gone.
In December 2017, the then Governor N N Vohra asked the state government to constitute a high-level committee to ensure "time-bound action" on the findings of the CAG on the functioning of the government departments.
Accountant General (Audit) also raised the issue with the Governor that departments were not acting on the findings of CAG report.
"CAG has already raised various issues pertaining to the functioning of various departments but have not been addressed by the government," sources said.
However, the government skipped of presenting the CAG report in the last budget session, which as per the officials was mandatory. Sources said that it has happened only few times when the CAG report was not presented in the assembly.
An official said that they did not receive the CAG report from the government. "Government should have sent it to us so that we could have presented in the assembly. I don't know why the report was not sent to us," he said. "We don't know where the CAG report is. Nobody is bothered to ask concerned authorities whether the report has been compiled and why it is not being made public," the official said.
CAG has to gauge the progress of developmental projects and their impact on the masses of people. It has to identify the hurdles in the way of implementation of projects, which can be technical, financial, administrative or circumstantial.
A source said that it was "mandatory" for the government to present the CAG report in the assembly. Even after over a year since the budget session, the report has not been made public.
"The government should now make the report public. It is right of people to know what is going in the state. Non-tabling and non making report public raises queries that government wants to hide its failures. If government has nothing to hide then why the report is not made public," the official said. |
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