Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on the Meeting on Monday.
| Picture Credit score: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA
Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Monday tabled two Comptroller and Auditor Common of India (CAG) stories within the Meeting on the efficiency of the earlier Aam Aadmi Social gathering (AAP) authorities. Nonetheless, there was no dialogue on the stories. With this, the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) authorities has tabled 10 out of 14 pending CAG stories on AAP’s governance.
The primary report, titled ‘Welfare of Constructing and Different Building Staff’, identified a number of shortcomings within the schemes for building staff, together with unreliable information, duplication of registered staff, and discrepancies within the cess collected from builders for staff’ welfare.
The Delhi Constructing and Different Building Staff’ Welfare Board (DBOCWWB) is already dealing with an Anti-Corruption Department (ACB) probe over registration of “ghost staff”.
The opposite CAG report, titled ‘State Funds for the 12 months 2023-24’, highlighted a 55.30% fall in income surplus in a single 12 months — ₹14,457 crore in 2022-23 to ₹6,462 crore in 2023-24.
The report additionally famous a “steady mismatch” between receipts and expenditure, indicating a “rising fiscal stress”.
Responding to CAG’s findings concerning the welfare of building staff, AAP stated that Lieutenant-Governor V.Ok. Saxena and the BJP-led Centre ought to admit “that they failed of their major responsibility of vigilance and posted corrupt officers in delicate positions”.
‘Many loopholes’
In regards to the registration of staff with the DBOCWWB, the report stated, “The provision of duplicate photos, photos with no faces, and a number of registrations of the identical face signifies a number of loopholes within the registration course of.”
In its audit spanning 4 years as much as March 2023, the CAG additionally recognized “large variations” within the data of cess collectors, district data and the board concerning the overall cess assortment.
“The distinction in figures of the cess as per district data and as per the board for 4 years amounted to ₹204.95 crore. The variations weren’t reconciled. The division didn’t preserve a reconciled database of cess assessed, collected and remitted,” said the report.
A Delhi authorities official stated the board had responded to the CAG’s findings with a “point-by-point” rebuttal, which was not included within the report.
“The discrepancies in information had been as a result of a shift to a more moderen portal for staff created by the Nationwide Informatics Centre. The variations in cess collections had been as a result of some builders depositing the cash to the district workplace and others on to the board’s checking account,” the official added.
The official added that the efficiency audit has neither discovered any ‘ghost employee’ within the system nor any embezzlement.
L-G in charge: AAP
In a press release, AAP stated, “Proper from 2015, the BJP-appointed L-G appointed his favorite officers at delicate positions within the authorities. It was the BJP-appointed L-G who headed the Vigilance and ACB departments. It was the first responsibility of the L-G to stop corruption.”
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