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| 189.78 Crore spent without budget provisions | | | | JAMMU, FEB 11
Another glaring example of financial indiscipline being practiced in Jammu and Kashmir has come to light in the recently submitted Comptroller Auditor General report for the year ending March 31,2006.The report was tabled in the state assembly in the budget session.
According to the CAG report, an expenditure of Rs 189.78 crore was incurred under 38 major heads of the accounts covering 20 grants without any provision for expenditure having been made in the budget.
The CAG report also noted that the reasons were doing so were not intimated by the concerned departments till September 2006 adding that the expenditure in the absence of budget provision reflects financial indiscipline and lax monitoring system othe departments. Out of 20 departments, forest department tops the chart as it incurred expenditure to the tune of Rs 41.30 crore without any budget provisions followed by housing and urban development department as it incurred an expenditure of Rs 26.83 crore without any budget provisions. Planning department with Rs 19.39 crore,Tourism departme... | |
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| 400 people made to "disappear" in Pakistan | | Musharraf wonders as Iqbal Haider thunders | | | BL KAK
NEW DELHI, FEB 11
Pakistan President, Gen. Parvez Musharraf, has no option but to wonder over the courageous stand taken by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) while calling a spade a spade. After repeatedly protesting the state practice of making people "disappear", the HRCP has finally decided to take the matter to the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Ther apex court itself has tried to compel the Musharraf government — with partial success — to yield up citizens kept in defiance of the law of habeas corpus.
Iqbal Haider, who is the Secretary General of the HRCP, announced in Islamabad on Friday (Feb. 9) that 400 people have been made to "disappear" by the functio... | |
| | | | Leading politicians' relatives to be targeted | | Terror groups for Afzal Guru's early freedom | | | BL KAK
NEW DELHI, FEB 11 Even as security within and outside the Tihar Jail in west Delhi has further been tightened in addition to a close watch on the cell housing the much-talked-about Kashmiri militant, Afzal Guru, the government has fears vis-a-vis the safety and security of some close relatives of leading politicians in Jammu and Kashmir and in the national capital as well. In other words, if the terror groups succceed in abducting any VIP or close relation of a prominent political figure, possibility of a repeat of the Kandahar event cannot be ruled out.
In recent days, this issue was discussed, on more than one occasion, by the top-ranking officials of the Prime Minister's Of... | |
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