New Delhi: The Prime Minsiters Office (PMO) on Saturday wrote a strongly worded letter to Anna Hazare, giving a point-by-point rebuttal to all the charges made by Team Anna on coal blocks allocation. The letter said that the CAG report on coal allocations is not yet tabled in Parliament and the government will respond to it once it's tabled in the House. The letter further said that all the decisions...
02:52 PM, Jun 09, 2012
New Delhi: The CAG report on the controversial Devas-Antrix deal which had slammed the Department of Space for policy violations, will be taken up by the newly constituted Public Accounts Committee. The decision in this regard was taken on Friday. It was also decided in the first meeting of the PAC that the latest CAG report on revenue losses to the Railways will be taken up by it in the...
05:09 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: Rubbishing Team Anna's charges of irregularities in allocation of coal blocks when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held the portfolio, the government on Wednesday insisted that it was not aware of any report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on the basis of which the allegations were levelled. A day after the Prime Minister offered to quit public life if allegations of corruption against him were proven, Coal...
08:31 PM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh on Wednesday refused to comment on the leaked Comptroller and Auditor General's (CAG) report that hinted at financial irregularities in allocating the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport to a conglomerate led by infrastructure major GMR Group. The CAG report questioned the rationale behind allowing Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL), the company which runs the IGI airport, to levy user charges on passengers, which...
01:32 AM, May 24, 2012
New Delhi: Parliament's Public Accounts Committee, examining the CAG's Adarsh Housing Society scam report, is planning to seek an update from the CBI on its investigations into the case. Sources said since the PAC is examining the CAG report, it was pertinent for it to seek an update from the investigating agency. Based on the CBI inputs, the Committee would find it easier to prepare its report. The CBI had...
01:14 AM, Apr 25, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil on Tuesday ordered an investigation by Mumbai Police into the alleged leak of some portions of the Comptroller and Auditor General's (CAG) report which reportedly indicted some ministers, while the opposition Shiv Sena demanded a CBI probe into the lapse. The development came a fortnight after a Bharatiya Janata Party legislator Devendra Phadnavis present a CD to assembly Speaker Dilip Walse-Patil and Shiv Sena...
01:41 AM, Apr 18, 2012
The state CAG report on Tuesday named trusts run by Vilasrao Deshmukh, Chhagan Bhujpal and Narayan Rane as beneficiaries in controversial land allotments. ...
10:37 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Mumbai: Top Maharashtra leaders Vilasrao Deshmukh, Narayan Rane and Chhagan Bhujbal were left red-faced as the CAG report that was tabled in the Maharashtra Assembly on Tuesday slammed them for allotting subsidised land without following due procedure. As reported by CNN-IBN a week ago, the CAG report implicates Deshmukh for arbitrarily allotting cheap land in Borivali to the Manjra charitable trust; Narayan Rane for allocating land in Sindhudurg to build...
09:27 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Mumbai: The Lavasa developer has been selected without any transparency, according to the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report. The report also says that the Lavasa project is driven by private interest rather than public interest. This may come as an embarrassment for NCP chief Sharad Pawar as he has been openly defending the Lavasa project. Lavasa is a hill project near Pune in Maharashtra. The project got a conditional...
02:04 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Mumbai: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on a possible land scam has been tabled in the Maharashtra Assembly. The report had indicted senior ministers including former Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh for allegedly allotting land at discounted prices to trusts run by them. The CAG report that was leaked alleged that Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh during his tenure as the Maharashtra chief minister made...
12:33 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government is expected to table a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report in the Assembly on Tuesday. The report which was leaked last week indicted that several sitting ministers were involved in land allotment scam. The CAG report that was leaked alleged that Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh during his tenure as the Maharashtra chief minister made inappropriate land allotments. The CAG report named...
06:21 AM, Apr 17, 2012
Mumbai: There was ruckus in the Maharashtra Assembly over the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on land allotments and the House had to be adjourned till 12 noon. The Opposition demanded that the CAG report be tabled in the Assembly on Monday. A CAG report that was leaked alleged that Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh during his tenure as the Maharashtra chief minister made inappropriate land...
12:00 PM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: Another housing scam has been unearthed in Mumbai. And caught in the centre of it is PWD Minister Chhagan Bhujbal's Mumbai Educational Trust. The Assistant Charity Commissioner has ordered an inspection of two floors of the MET building, which will be carried out on Saturday. This after MET Vice-Chairman Sunil Karve alleged that the space was being misused by Bhujbal's daughter to run a furniture store. Karve has...
07:41 AM, Apr 06, 2012
New Delhi: Union Minister and former Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Thursday refused to comment on the CAG report which indicted him for alleged irregularities in land allotments during his tenure. "I will react after the CAG report is tabled. I am certain my name will be cleared," he told CNN-IBN. The CAG in a recent report is learnt to have indicted Union minister Vilasrao Deshmukh for preferential allotment...
05:17 PM, Apr 05, 2012
New Delhi: The government on Saturday downplayed the draft CAG report on coal block allocations with Finance Minister Pranab Mukerjee stating that 90 per cent of the issues raised by the auditor at initial stage are dropped. "After obtaining comments of the ministries, 90 per cent of the issues raised by the CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General of India) are dropped. That is the normal practice and it is going...
03:08 PM, Mar 24, 2012
Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy said the total loss in coal blocks sale is more then the GDP of country. ...
02:53 PM, Mar 22, 2012
New Delhi: A CAG report in national daily 'The Times of India' says the government lost Rs 10.67 lakh crore by not auctioning coal blocks between 2004 and 2009. CNN-IBN had reported on a potential coal scam about six months ago. CNN-IBN had traveled to Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. Despite a CBI inquiry, there was no action by either the central or state government on a politically-connected company who allegedly...
11:35 AM, Mar 22, 2012
Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal refused to comment on media reports, but Shakeel Ahmed said 'it seems it's not a scam but a loss'. ...
11:02 AM, Mar 22, 2012
New Delhi: The Comptroller and Auditor General is back to give the Centre nightmares. A CAG report says the government lost Rs 10.67 lakh crore by not auctioning coal blocks between 2004 and 2009. According to a report in 'The Times of India', 155 coal blocks were given to commercial entities without auction between 2004 and 2009. The estimated loss is six times higher than the presumptive loss figure of...
09:09 AM, Mar 22, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI will take into consideration the CAG report on National Rural Health Mission fund implementation in Uttar Pradesh which has pegged the irregularities to be around Rs 5000 crore while registering new cases in the scam. Agency sources said the detailed analysis by country's auditor will be helpful in ascertaining further losses to the exchequer. Based on the observations by Comptroller and Auditor General, the CBI will...
03:46 PM, Jan 22, 2012
