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| J&K hides CAG report, likely to be tabled on last day | | Guv left waiting! | | Syed Junaid Hashmi
JAMMU, Mar 2: Despite Governor N.N.Vohra's public disclosure of having ordered laying of report in the two houses of legislature, state government is unmoved and likely to table the report on the last day of this ongoing budget session.
General Administration Department (GAD) has neither intimated the law department nor the two houses of the state legislature about when it would be tabling the audit report. In the business issued by the two houses for March 2, 2013; there is no mention of the CAG report. Though the government can bring report to two houses through supplementary business but insiders maintain that it is highly unlikely.
If the sources are to be believed, the report is likely to be tabled on the last day of the budget session in both houses of the legislature.i.e March 4. This has come as shock to Raj Bhawan which had given its approval for tabling the report on February 24 i.e. 6 days ago and made the same public. If sources are to be believed, Raj Bhawan issued handout about its communication to state government vis-à-vis tabling of the report to prevent the state government from giving the lame excuse of Governor's office delaying the much needed approval.
State government has often blamed Governor's office for delay in tabling the critically important reports of Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India on Appropriation Accounts 2012-13, Finance Accounts 2012-13, (Volume-1 and Volume-2), State Finances for the year ended 31st March, 2013 and on Revenue Sector and Public Sector undertakings (Social, General and Economic Sector) for the year ended 31st March, 2013.
To assure that the public comes to know about his approval and seriousness towards the tabling of CAG report, Governor N.N.Vohra issued a handout to the media, said an official seeking anonymity. He added that the report has pass strictures on several officers, who are presently posted at various prestigious positions. "We have got to know reliably that the report has trashed claims of various top officers. Government fears opposition would rip them apart. That is why they are delaying its tabling," said an official in the assembly secretariat.
Precedent has been that once the Governor issues the order in pursuance of Article 151(2) of the Constitution of India, it becomes obligatory for the state government to table the report. "They should not delay it even by a day. Since delay means that you are not taking Governor's office seriously and going by your own comfort," added the official while saying that Raj Bhawan would not have issued the handout to media, if the report would have been of normal nature.
Routine business would have never invited attention of Governor, said the official while adding that the government should not have delayed and instead, put the report in the public domain. "It seems government would table the report on the last day of the Budget session. This would not allow the legislators to even have a good look at the report, which is highly unfortunate," said an official in the civil secretariat. |
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