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| Government must act against huge scams unraveled by CAG: Harsh Dev Singh | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 11: Harsh Dev Singh, Chairman NPP today said that with consecutive reports of Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) indicating scams of gargantuan proportions having been committed in J&K during the past few years, it was shocking to note the culprits being granted immunity from any kind of probe or punishment.
"Earlier the reports of CAG used to be tabled in the legislative assembly for discussion and deliberations with a 'Public Accounts Committee' to go into the adverse findings therein and recommend punitive action against the violators of financial norms. Unfortunately the said system had also ceased to exist with the post Art 370 abrogation and non existence of legislature with the result that even the duly reported scams by the 'National Accounting Watchdog' were being thrown under the carpet," said Singh.
Expressing grave concern over the successive reports of CAG revealing financial irregularities in the working of various government departments going unaddressed, Singh divulged that the recently released CAG report for 2019-20 had disclosed huge scams in I&FC, R&B, PHE, School Education, Estates with huge violations of "Book of Financial powers" and the "Public works code, execution of thousands of works without tenders, without accord of AA and technical sanction; diversion of funds under PMDP amounting to several hundred crores and other financial irregularities of huge magnitude.
"In 2018-19 the CAG report for 2018-19 had pointed towards a suspected scam of Rs. 8,000 crores likely to have been committed during 2017 and 2018. The CAG report has categorically castigated Education Department, Municipal Corporations of Jammu and Srinagar and SKUAST for the financial irregularities, which regretfully had failed to invite due attention of the powers that be," said Singh.
Singh said that not only have the government departments in general been collectively charged with omissions and commissions but the CAG had categorically indicted several individual departments of J&K for financial scams. He said the CAG reports that have divulged scams of huge magnitude having been committed in various government departments through its test checks, but several financial scams including reports highlighted through media and other organizations too have failed to invite the attention of the government for a proper follow up action. He lamented that the tall assurances of BJP rulers over "Corruption free system, Accountability and Transparency" too, like its other slogans, have proved to be mere Jumlas and hyperboles. |
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