Lucknow: Comtroller and Auditor General of India have said in its latest report that the government over transferred Rs 67.87 Crore from the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) for the procurement of rescue equipment for Kumbh Mela in 2019.
The report said that funds intended for purpose must be fulfilled from state budget.
Furthermore showed that PWD executed six works for RS 1.69 Crore related to road repairs and painting road trees without financial sanctions.
CAG has shown that Kumbh Mela Adhikari (KMA) failed effectively in monitoring tents and furniture because vendors claimed payment for RS compensation 21.75 Crore on missing items.
The report said that the actual number paid because the lost items were not confirmed by KMA.
Audit pays attention to RS 3.11 Crore estimates for roadwork and irregular work awards into capacity contractors, in addition to expenditures that can be avoided for barricade work (RS 3.24 Crore) and fiber strengthening plastic toilets (Rs 8.75 Crore); and excessive payment (Rs 1.27 Crore) to the contractor.
CAG further notes that the state government does not comply with the schedule determined because 58 permanent and 11 temporary natural works (15% of work) are not resolved by the start of Mela Kumbh.
Furthermore, because of the inefficient procurement process by the Department of Houses, vehicle fire, luggage scanner, Digital HF radio set and camera drone (Cost: Rs 7.83 Crore) obtained for Kumbh Mela is not accepted or not used during Kumbh Mela.
This report added that the issue of city solid waste (MSW) was not effectively handled.
Because the MSW processing factory is non-operational, there is a large scrapheap of 3.61.136 MT on the Banswar factory site before Kumbh Mela.
This is getting stacked on 52,727 MT between January 2019 and March 2019.
CAG also reveals deficiencies in the phase of preparation, project implementation, monitoring and financial management of the Indo-Nepal Border Road (INBRP) project in 2012 and 2019.
The project was implemented by PWD.
The report said the initial alignment of 640 km of Indo-Nepal (INB) border roads in the country was revised to 574.59km after the survey, including 257.02km under 12 detailed project reports (DPR) which was subject to sanctions.
16 The remaining DPR for the 317.57KM road has not been subject to sanctions in December 2019.
During 2012-20 (until December 2019), UPPWD experienced RS 834.50 Crore expenditure (RS 591.72 Crore from the State and Rs 242.78 Crore from Government country) about project implementation.
This report highlights that the revival of forest and wildlife, which is a prerequisite for the start of work, must be given to INBRP (until December 2019) because of the wrong / incomplete proposal submitted by UPPWD and lack of coordination with the Ministry of Forestry.
Furthermore said that the rate of land acquisition by UPPWD was late because 27 percent of the land (113.10 hectares) had not been acquired (in December 2019) which will have the same effect on further delays in the project settlement.
‘The top divert the SDRF fund to buy rescue equipment’
