Jammu, April 10 The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has highlighted significant changes in land use and water cover of the iconic Dal Lake, pointing to a decrease in the water body from 15.40 square kilometers in 2007 to 12.91 square kilometers in 2020, representing a 10.15% decline over...
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Mumbai, April 7 The Maharashtra Environment Department has decided to revise bank guarantees and fines imposed on polluting industries after a CAG report flagged lapses involving ₹272.47 crore in uncollected guarantees, officials have said.The move aims to increase accountability among...
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Bhopal, April 3 – Madhya Pradesh Congress President Jitu Patwari launched a scathing attack on the Mohan Yadav government on Friday, accusing it of turning the "Year of Farmer Welfare" into a "Year of Farmer Exploitation".Addressing a press conference on Friday, Patwari said that farmers...
New Delhi, April 2 The overall liabilities of the Union government increased during 2024-25 mainly due to an increase in public debt, CAG said in a report on Thursday."Internal debt and external debt increased by 8.35 per cent and 9.83 per cent, respectively, compared to 2023-24. At the end of...
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New Delhi, April 2 The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has said that Digital Bharat Nidhi, a rural telecom development fund under the Department of Telecom, should recover liquidated damages and non-performance penalty of Rs 8.49 crore from Bharti Airtel, which has been pending for the...
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Bhubaneswar, March 31 – The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) said on Tuesday that Odisha posted moderate growth in 2024–25 compared to the previous financial year, while cautioning against fiscal stress risks arising from the under-realisation of revenue receipts, low own-tax...
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New Delhi, March 30 A CAG report for the year ended March 2024 has flagged "excess expenditure" in the maintenance of certain properties linked to the Indian Embassy in Beijing, China, according to an official statement issued on Monday.Report No. 36 of 2025 of the Comptroller and Auditor...
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Shimla, March 30 The debt liability of the Himachal Pradesh government increased by ₹10,966 crore in 2024-25, reaching ₹1,03,331.91 crore, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) revealed in its latest Financial Report.This figure is up from the ₹92,365 crore that the state owed as of April...
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New Delhi, March 30 The Congress accused the government of not implementing the VB-G RAM G Act after "freezing" MGNREGA, and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi keeps reminding people of the COVID period, but has forgotten how the UPA-era law provided relief to millions during the pandemic...
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New Delhi, March 27 Delhi Higher Education Minister Ashish Sood on Friday cited a CAG report on Delhi government universities for 2018-2023 to allege "serious" irregularities in the functioning of the universities and demanded that the findings be referred to the Public Accounts Committee for a...
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New Delhi, March 27 Delhi minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Friday cited the CAG report on the now-scrapped excise policy in the Assembly to allege "deliberate policy manipulation" by the previous government, claiming it led to revenue losses of Rs 2,000 crore and extended undue benefits to...
Bengaluru, March 26 Due to the increasing trend in subsidies, the Karnataka government was forced to cut down its funds for some of its ongoing schemes, such as nutrition, assistance to local bodies and gram panchayats in rural development programmes, the CAG in its report.The Comptroller &...
New Delhi, March 26 In a move to further attack Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi PWD Minister Parvesh Sahib Singh shared a video titled "Dhurandhar 3" on Thursday, showcasing the lavish "glass mansion" built by the former chief minister, whom he described as "Delhi's Rehman Dakait."Rehman Dakait is a...
New Delhi, March 25 Delhi has only one "mansion," the "glass mansion" of Arvind Kejriwal, while the rest live in "shelters," Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said on Wednesday, citing alleged exorbitant spending on the 6, Flagstaff bungalow, where he earlier lived as her predecessor.The AAP, which...
Mumbai, March 24 Only 52% of the works undertaken under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in Maharashtra were completed between 2019-20 and 2023-24, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has said.The CAG report, presented to the state...
New Delhi, March 23 The CAG report showed that the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) incurred a revenue loss of Rs 4,988 crore due to Non-Revenue Water from 2017-18 to 2021-22.The report, tabled in the Delhi Assembly on Monday, also stated that the DJB is not conducting water testing according to the...
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New Delhi, March 23 – Delhi Cabinet Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Monday condemned the decision of AAP MLAs to walk out of the Assembly, saying the Opposition lacks the courage to discuss controversial issues dating back to the Arvind Kejriwal era.He stated, “The opposition is shirking its...
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Ranchi, March 16 As of March 2022, utilisation certificates worth ₹7,592 crore under various heads remained pending with several Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) in Jharkhand, according to a CAG report presented in the assembly on Monday.The annual technical inspection report on local bodies also...
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New Delhi, March 12 The CAG's estimate that the government has suffered revenue loss due to the non-implementation of an agreement with Reliance Jio was based on a misinterpretation of a clause, and the error has now been rectified, according to Minister of State for Telecom, Pemmasani Chandra...
Amaravati, March 11 – Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and YSR Congress Party president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy said on Wednesday that the CAG report has exposed the financial discipline of the coalition government in the state.He claimed that the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report...