AIADMK State caput A. Anbalagan has urged the Assembly Public Accounts Committee and Estimates Committee to summon officials acrophobic for an enquiry pursuing the latest audit study of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), citing fiscal irregularities successful a fewer authorities departments that caused a nonaccomplishment of astir ₹28 crore.
In a statement, Mr. Anbalagan said the committees of the Legislative Assembly, that besides comprise members of the Opposition parties, should execute their roles independently. Only past tin a authorities elected by the radical relation decently and the medication beryllium expected to improve, helium said.
In 1 of its findings, the CAG audit study for 2023-24 stated that assorted departments of the Puducherry authorities had reported astir 316 cases of misappropriation, nonaccomplishment and defalcation up to March 2024, involving authorities funds amounting to ₹28.89 crore connected which last enactment was pending. It singled retired the Electricity Department, which alone, accounted for 257 cases involving funds to the tune of ₹27.14 crore.
In the airy of these findings, Mr. Anbalagan said the Opposition parties, which were adequately represented successful the oversight committees acceptable up by the Puducherry Assembly, including 1 sheet that had DMK MLA arsenic chairman, should haul up officials of the acrophobic departments and behaviour a thorough probe into the fiscal misdeeds.
Should specified an probe found guilt, the committee president should urge prosecution measures against officials acrophobic to the Legislative Assembly, helium added.
Turning connected the party’s arch-rival, Mr. Anbalagan said the DMK, which has members successful immoderate of these captious Assembly-led oversight panels -- nether the contented of including members from parties extracurricular the ruling confederation successful cardinal positions -- was not functioning arsenic a existent Opposition, but tended to beryllium supportive of the government, whether they were successful powerfulness oregon not. This, helium contended, would explicate wherefore neither during the erstwhile Congress-DMK authorities nor during the AINRC-BJP regime, the superior malpractices brought retired by CAG audits had not been acted upon.
Mr. Anbalagan said it was comical, against this backdrop, for the DMK and immoderate others to effort to divert from the nonaccomplishment of their oversight functions pursuing the work of the CAG audit report, and request enactment from the authorities and the Lt. Governor. He besides wanted the Speaker to guarantee that the committees announced successful the Legislative Assembly bash their work properly.
