New Delhi: Delhi BJP on Friday took to streets to protest against scarcity of water in various parts of the city during summer and blamed poor water management by Congress government for the situation. BJP activists led by Delhi unit chief Vijay Goel held a demonstration near ITO with police using water cannons and lathicharge to disperse them.
"The crisis is so acute and the common people are in such a desperate situation that Delhi could face severe water riots in days to come as it has happened earlier also," Goel said addressing BJP workers. Ironically, while the water tariff had increased from 35 paisa per litre to Rs 35 per litre during Congress regime in Delhi, there is unabated deterioration in water supply across the Capital, he said. BJP accused the government for mishandling the situation on water supply and said that the residents had overwhelmingly passed a verdict against the Sheila Dikshit government.
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01:33 AM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: CAG report commands respect and cannot be brushed aside but it cannot be the final word on an issue, the Supreme Court said on Thursday while noting that the auditor's findings cannot be gospel truth as it is subject to scrutiny by Parliament. A bench of justices KS Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra said that CAG's report is always subject to parliamentary debates and it is possible that Public...
10:40 PM, May 09, 2013
New Delhi: Downplaying CAG's report on the Rural Employment Guarantee Act or NREGA, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said that it is a performance and not a financial audit. Ramesh said, "It is CAG's job to find shortcomings and if they don't show, it means they are not doing their job." Ramesh further said that the audit was conducted only after the government requested for it. The clarification comes after...
03:50 PM, Apr 23, 2013
New Delhi: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has tabled its report on the Rural Employment Guarantee Act or NREGA, as it was utilised across India. CNN-IBN has accessed the report which says only 30 per cent of 129 lakh works worth over Rs 1.26 lakh crore approved in 14 states were completed. Barely 30 per cent of NREGA works completed, while Bihar, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh used only 20...
12:37 PM, Apr 23, 2013
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has said government-owned firms in Gujarat granted "undue benefit" to big industrial houses, which resulted in revenue losses worth crores of rupees to the state exchequer. The CAG report, for the year ended March 31, 2012, was tabled on Tuesday in the Gujarat State Assembly. ...
11:04 PM, Apr 02, 2013
Changes in the tender clauses led to Adani Group gaining and the Chhattisgarh government losing Rs.1,549 crore in a coal mining deal, said Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) in a report on Friday. The CAG report for the year ended March 31, 2012, was tabled in the state assembly, the last day of the 32-day budget session. ...
05:42 AM, Mar 23, 2013
Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare on Sunday claimed to have sufficient proofs of alleged irregularities committed in the farmers's loan waiver scheme of the Centre which was brought out by CAG report recently. ...
02:37 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said there was no "misappropriation" of funds under the Rs 52,000-crore farm debt waiver scheme and sought a more comprehensive audit by CAG to get a better picture. Stating that the sample size taken for auditing was "too small", Pawar said audit of "significant" number of accounts should be done by Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG). ...
03:05 PM, Mar 06, 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday assured that action will be taken if irregularities are found in the farm loan waiver scheme. The Prime Minister's statement in the Rajya Sabha came after loud protests by the Opposition in the House. The Lok Sabha, too, witnessed a demand from the Opposition to discuss the CAG report on farm loan waiver scheme. ...
12:38 PM, Mar 06, 2013
The Lok Sabha was adjourned on Wednesday after uproar over alleged scam in farm loan waiver scheme. The CAG report which was tabled in Parliament on Tuesday had criticised the scheme's implementation, citing lapses in 22 per cent of the cases. ...
11:40 AM, Mar 06, 2013
The CAG report for the year ending March 31, 2012 tabled in the UP Assembly on Tuesday shows that Rs 25,628 crore of 34 departments remained unutilised. ...
03:47 AM, Mar 06, 2013
New Delhi: The medical arm of the defence services on Friday came in for criticism by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) over "critical shortage" of medical officers which is likely to impact patient care. "There was an overall shortage of 12 per cent medical officers in the hospitals under the Director General Armed Forces Medical Services...Even among the Command and Specialist hospitals, the posted strength varied from minus 25...
05:32 PM, Dec 14, 2012
New Delhi: The UPA seems to have played the 2G card ahead of the all-party meet to resolve the parliament deadlock on FDI. Congress ally DMK has given a notice for a discussion under rule 193 on the CAG report on 2G Scam in the Lok Sabha. The notice comes after ex-CAG audit officer RP Singh claimed the report was influenced by BJP leader and Public Accounts Committee Chairman Murli...
10:23 AM, Nov 26, 2012
New Delhi: A day after CNN-IBN reported that the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) pulled up the Oil Ministry for agreeing to the conditions of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) for the audit of KG-D6 Basin, the company on Saturday issued a statement denying it was opposed to an audit by the Constitutional body. The company pointed out that it had never opposed previous audits ordered by the government. It said...
09:15 PM, Nov 03, 2012
New Delhi: With Opposition attacking it for critcising CAG, Congress on Saturday maintained that it was not trying to gag the auditor but it should "give proper thought" before giving its opinion. "We have not been saying that every word of the CAG is wrong and that it should not open its mouth. We are not saying whatever it says is wrong." "We are only saying that the CAG should...
01:19 AM, Sep 30, 2012
New Delhi: Differing with CAG's suggestion of opportunity costing, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday said government is not in the business of trading commodities, but facilitates allocation of resources for generation of more power and production of more steel and cement for common good. When asked about CAG's method of opportunity costing, which means that a commodity should be traded at the market price, he said if prices of...
02:39 AM, Sep 18, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday defended itself over the CAG report on coal block allocation saying there was no scam in it. Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh claimed the Congress made no money out of the allocation of coal blocks and said that the CBI was only investigating whether some companies were eligible for getting coal blocks. The party also defended Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying he made no...
01:02 PM, Sep 12, 2012
New Delhi: Demanding a probe into fresh reports in the allocation of 142 coal blocks by the UPA government, the BJP on Tuesday said it is "truly amazing" that relatives and associates of union ministers have gained soon after the latter occupied the high offices. "It is truly amazing that the enterprenuerial skills of the kith and kin of UPA ministers shine only when the brothers are ministers," BJP Chief...
06:34 PM, Sep 11, 2012
New Delhi: In a stinging attack on the CAG, the Congress on Monday alleged that the government auditor was as much responsible as the BJP for the disruption of the just-concluded monsoon session of Parliament on the coal mine allocation issue. Party spokesperson Manish Tewari also sought to make a major issue out of a telephone call by a senior BJP leader to the CAG on a yet-to-be-tabled report by...
09:43 PM, Sep 10, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI has shortlisted the people who are likely to be called for recording their statements in connection with five cases registered by it for alleged irregularities in allocation of captive coal blocks. Agency sources said in the first batch, the accused named in the FIRs against JLD Yavatmal Energy Limited, JAS Infrastructure Capital Private Limited and AMR Iron and Steel are likely to be called at its...
07:14 PM, Sep 10, 2012
