All Entries Tagged With: "CAG"
Bihar babus plan to rebel against ‘bills’ order
Aug 02 (Deccan Chronicle): The Nitish Kumar government’s eagerness to furnish the bills for thousands of crores of rupees spent in welfare projects over six years to the accountant-general has spread discontent among the state’s officials currently engaged in preparing the bills. They are now planning to revolt. Following the Patna high court’s July 15 [...]
Bihar excise dept suffers loss of Rs 224 cr
Patna, Aug 02 (PTI): The Excise department in Bihar has suffered a loss of Rs 223.58 crore during 2008-09 due to short lifting of minimum guaranteed quantity, non-delayed settlement of excise shops and other deficiencies. CAG in its report for the period ended on March 2009, highlighted that test check of the records of the [...]
Paswan, RJD walk out, Rajya Sabha adjourned for 10 minutes
Aug 02 (IANS): The Rajya Sabha was briefly adjourned for 10 minutes pm on Monday following protests by the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) and the Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD) over an audit report pointing to graft in providing relief to the victims of the 2007 floods in Bihar. Raising the issue during zero hour, LJP [...]
Bihar PSU losses pegged at Rs 3,593 cr as of Sept, 2009
Patna, July 29 (The Economic Times): Since their inception, public sector units (PSUs) in Bihar have suffered an accumulated loss of Rs 3,593.15 crore as of September 30, 2009, as per their latest finalised accounts vetted by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG). The financial watchdog, in its report for the financial year ended March [...]
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar meets Governor Devanand Konwar
Patna, July 29 (PTI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday had an hour-long discussion with state Governor Devanand Konwar at the Rajbhavan here. Officials at the chief minister’s office and Rajbhavan described it as “a courtesy call” by Kumar. The meeting came barely a week after a delegation of Opposition parties submitted a memorandum [...]
Bihar failed to meet challenges despite tourist potential: CAG
Patna, Jul 28 (PTI) The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has lashed out against the Bihar government for “failing” to tap its tourist potential due to a lack of planning and professional approach.In its latest report, the CAG pointed out that the Bihar State Tourism Development Corporation Limited (BSTDC) failed to meet the [...]
Women give ‘birth’ to 5 children in 2 months in Bihar
Patna, July 26 (IANS) A woman, as everyone knows, usually gives birth to a baby after nine months of pregnancy, but in Bihar 298 women claim to have delivered two to five children in a span of 60 days – at least that’s what records of incentives amount given to new mothers under a government [...]
Bihar food body embezzled grains meant for flood victims: CAG
Patna, July 24 (PTI): The auditing regulator CAG has found irregularities to the tune of Rs 25 lakh in foodgrain supplies to the flood victims during August-October of 2007 by the Bihar State Food and Civil Supplies Corporation. According to the CAG report for the fiscal ended March 31 2009, and presented by Bihar Deputy [...]
Expenditure of Rs 13,230.39 crore yet to be settled in Bihar
Patna, July 24(The Economic Times): Even as the Patna High Court stayed the operation of its order favouring a CBI probe into alleged non-reconciliation of advances, the CAG has highlighted that in all, adjustment of advances of Rs 13230.39 crore drawn on Abstract Contingent (AC) bills is pending settlement between 2002-3 and 2008-09. The CAG in [...]
Bihar: Appropriation bill related to supplementary budget adopted
Patna, July 23 (PTI): Bihar assembly on Friday adopted the appropriation bill (III), 2010 related to first supplementary budget making a provision of Rs 5498.66 crore. Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi, who also holds the Finance portfolio, told the house that out of Rs 5498.66 crore, a sum of Rs 2273.01 crore had been made available [...]
Bihar opposition parties demand President’s rule
Patna, July 22 (DH News Service):Almost the entire Opposition members, comprising RJD, LJP, Congress, CPI and the CPM legislators, on Thursday took out a procession to the Raj Bhavan where they submitted a memorandum to Governor Devanand Konwar demanding imposition of President’s rule in Bihar. The Opposition parties are of the view that a free [...]
Nitish Kumar must go: Bihar Oppn
Patna, July 22 (IANS): The Opposition in Bihar on Thursday stuck to its demand for the resignation of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for his alleged involvement in a Rs 11,412 crore scam, a day after a slipper was flung at the assembly speaker amid unruly scenes. And, upping the ante, 11 legislators of the Lok [...]
HC to hear plea against CBI probe in Bihar irregularities
Patna, July 22(IANS): The Patna High Court is set to hear the Bihar government’s plea to review the court’s decision for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into irregularities of Rs 11,412 crore in the state on Thursday. In a suit filed on Monday, the state government said the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) [...]
LJP demands for Prez rule in Bihar
July 21 (Samay Live): Lok Janshakti Party on Wednesday in view of the Constitutional breakdown in Bihar, demanded imposition of President’s rule in the state. ”There is a complete Constitutional breakdown in Bihar. People are coming out on the streets against corruption. I demand that President’s rule be imposed there. LJP and RJD will also [...]
Congress, RJD protecting their leaders in Bihar: BJP
July 21 (IANS): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday alleged that the Congress and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) are creating a ruckus in the Bihar assembly to protect their leaders whose names figure in a report showing financial irregularities. BJP spokesperson Syed Shahnawaz Hussain accused the Congress and RJD of trying to malign BJP and [...]
JD(U) accuses Lalu Prasad of “masterminding” assembly chaos
Patna, July 21(PTI): Bihar’s ruling party JD(U) on Wednesday accused RJD leader Lalu Prasad of “masterminding” the chaotic scenes by opposition members in the two houses of the assembly as part of a “design to mislead and fool” the people. Condemning the chaotic scenes created by opposition members in the state assembly and council since [...]
Free-for-all among Bihar netas in House
Patna, July 20 (TNN) : In an unusual display of muscle, honourable ruling and opposition members of the Bihar legislative assembly had their sleeves rolled up on Tuesday as they trooped into the well of the House, uprooted the reporters’ table ahead of the Speaker’s podium and threw reporters’ chairs at each other, leaving quite a [...]
Bihar govt seeks stay on CBI probe
July 19 (PTI): Bihar government on Monday sought a stay on the Patna High Court order for a CBI probe into alleged financial irregularities in development schemes from 2002 to 2008, pleading that CAG report on the issue was pending “consideration” of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the state assembly. In an Interlocutory Petition filed [...]
CBI probe: Bihar will comment on HC order soon, says Sushil Modi
July 16 (PTI): Bihar government will clear its position on the alleged irregularities in execution of welfare and development schemes after studying the High Court order for CBI probe, Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi on Friday said in Patna. “The State government will make its position on the issue of the alleged irregularities soon”, [...]
HC orders CBI probe into scam involving Bihar CM
Patna, July 15 (DH News Service): The Patna High Court on Thursday asked the CBI to investigate the ‘fraudulent withdrawal’ of Rs 11,412 crore from the State exchequer, in which Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi, Health Minister Nand Kishore Yadav and 44 others have been named accused. Taking serious [...]
