Ranchi: Comptroller and General Auditor (CAG) of the latest Indian reports, which were submitted in the State Assembly on Wednesday, showed the waste of public money, corruption and construction using sub-standard materials in the Jharkhand Government Raghubar Das BJP was in the office.
According to the report, several bridges built between 2014 and 2019 are under the country and the scheme of rural connectivity sponsored centrally poorly quality which endangers safety, produces caves and waste of public money, report said.
On Thursday, the main auditor of the state general, Indu Agarwal, gave media direction about CAG reports, which included the public, social, economic and income sectors.
He said, “Many poor quality bridges and consultants engaged not to follow civil construction norms that are prescribed such as hydrological surveys and designs, among others because there is no government examination and balance.” He added that they have recommended the government to conduct a safety audit of all the bridges and take action against mistaken individuals.
CAG conducted an audit of rural connectivity structures (especially bridges) between September 2019 and March 2020 in six Jharkhand samples.
These bridges were built under Mukhya Mantri Gram Setu Yojana (MMGSY), which is an extension of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Yojana, when the government led by the BJP led by the Head of Minister of Raghubar Das in power.
Agarwal said they have found that the MMGSY scheme is executed without holding on operational guidelines and the department concerned not conducting a survey to assess the execution of the scheme, which leads to poor work.
He gave an example of six bridges, worth Rs 52.07 Crore, which was a sub-standard and said nothing was brought to order a bad job.
In the absence of the right operational guidelines and penalty clauses, consultants, which are issued to prepare detailed project reports, are given improper benefits at various levels.
“Tender documents and agreements are loaded to support periodic maintenance contractors and clauses of the finished bridge, resulting in premature and cave-in damage,” Agarwal said.
Although this scheme aims to increase rural connectivity, the report states that the bridge is randomly built based on MPS / MLAS / other recommendations without checking their feasibility.
“As a result, these bridges are built in places where they are not needed, which caused spending wasteful,” he said.
In addition to finding a poor quality bridge, the report said 208 bridges were incomplete.
This report has also found corruption at several levels.
For example, it has been found that since 2016, district welfare officer in Chatra embezzled funds with RS 13.59 Crore songs, which were intended for scholarships, in Convance with the cashier of their office but the state welfare department failed to monitor it.
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“The funds are intended to transfer the direct benefits of scholarships to students, but officials who are mistakenly win funds through the withdrawal of doubts on behalf of their friends and relatives.
After we mark it, the action was taken against the perpetrators,” Agarwal said.
Similarly, the auditor also found a lack of planning and implementation appropriate in the construction of tourist facilities throughout the state.
“As many as 39 assets built between 2004 and 2018 with the cost of Rs 39.62 Crore still do not operate or operate in part.
There are no formal feasibility studies or its effectiveness surveys before launching a construction plan.
There are no right plans for the development of tourism or minimum standards set For tourism units.
While contractors / developers benefit that still have to be paid, lack of poor monitoring and management causes illegal operations of assets, “the report said.
In terms of income generation, CAG has found anomalies in the assessment and tax collection in transportation, electricity, commercial tax, excise and the prohibition department, which leads to a major loss for former state examiners.
For example, in the Excise Ministry and Prohibition, officials did not take action to ensure the minimum lifting quota fluid lifting by vendors between April 2016 and July 2017 in four districts, which resulted in a loss in Rs 22.46 Crore.
In the public sector, business, only Tenughat Nigam Vidyut Limited is managed to get a profit but others like JUSNL and JBVNL cumulative losses with a sheet of more than Rs 500 Crore.
However, the overall losses issued by five PSUS electricity sectors are Rs 479.44 Crore in 2018-19, lower than what happened during 2014-15 (RS 1518.39 Crore), the report said.