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The gross arrears of the Kerala government, arsenic connected March 31, 2024, stood astatine ₹24,462.50 crore, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has noted successful the latest audit study connected State finances tabled successful the State Legislative Assembly connected Thursday.
Overall, the arrears amusement a alteration implicit the erstwhile fiscal.
Fourteen authorities departments relationship for the arrears, of which arrears to the tune of ₹6880.85 crore are implicit 5 years old.
“The arrears of gross bespeak delayed realisation of gross owed to the government. It deprives the authorities of imaginable gross receipts and yet affects the gross deficit,” the CAG study said.
The State Goods and Services Tax section tops the database with ₹13,559.46 crore of uncollected revenue, which is much oregon little the aforesaid arsenic past year. The Finance section (arrears successful involvement receipts) accounted for ₹7,604.49 crore, followed by the Registration section which had an uncollected gross of ₹723.53 crore.
Other departments with immense gross arrears included Police (₹494.20 crore), Land Revenue Commissionerate (₹542.14 crore), Forest (₹420.92 crore), Mining and Geology (₹224 crore) and Excise (₹303.50 crore).
This is not the archetypal clip that the CAG has flagged this issue. The gross arrears connected March 31, 2022, stood astatine ₹28,258.39 crore, and ₹21,797.86 crore till March 31, 2021, indicating that the State authorities has not had overmuch occurrence successful recovering them.
However, the latest CAG study for 2023-24 shows a alteration from the erstwhile fiscal. The arrears, arsenic connected March 31, 2023, had stood astatine ₹27,902.45 crore, which has dipped to ₹24,462.50 crore successful 2023-24.
