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The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has flagged "systemic deficiencies" successful Maharashtra's governance, identifying ₹891 crore successful imaginable fiscal irregularities crossed much than 10,000 audit queries that assorted departments ignored contempt repeated reminders implicit a decade.
The CAG, successful the study tabled successful the precocious concluded fund league of the State Assembly, criticised the hold by departments successful filing enactment taken notes (ATNs), stating that the State's inability to code queries successful 2,408 inspection reports (IRs) showed "legislative oversight".
The CAG has raised queries implicit the accounts, immoderate dating backmost implicit a decade, but the departments person near them unanswered.
As galore arsenic 2,408 IRs, containing 10,340 paragraphs (queries), were pending colony arsenic of June 2023, reflecting a important backlog, adjacent arsenic a abstracted section audit for 2022-23 raised 2,119 objections involving gross implications of ₹891.29 crore, against which lone ₹25.58 crore was recovered during the year.
The CAG study stated that IRs and audit paragraphs signifier the halfway of fiscal oversight, arsenic they are issued instantly aft section audits to emblem irregularities to departmental heads.
Individual paragraphs correspond circumstantial audit observations specified arsenic misappropriation, unauthorised expenditure and non-compliance with rules, requiring timely responses and corrective action.
Persistent pendency of audit paragraphs, delays successful furnishing ATNs and anemic compliance with audit observations constituent to "systemic deficiencies successful ensuring enforcement accountability and legislative oversight", the study said.
Cluster-wise information showed that sectors including nationalist works, h2o proviso and sanitation, and roads and bridges accounted for the highest pendency, with 789 IRs containing 3,604 paragraphs.
The instrumentality and bid sector, including Home and Legal Affairs, had 454 reports with 1,690 paragraphs, portion Environment, Science and Technology accounted for 388 reports with 1,471 paragraphs.
The transport sector, including entities specified arsenic the State Road Transport Corporation, the Maharashtra Maritime Board, and the Airport Development Company, had 320 IRs with 1,461 paragraphs pending, followed by vigor and powerfulness with 266 reports containing 1,142 paragraphs.
Industry and commerce had 184 reports with 918 paragraphs, portion accusation exertion and connection recorded 7 reports with 54 paragraphs.
The study besides flagged non-compliance with recommendations of the Public Accounts Committee and the Committee connected Public Undertakings, noting that retired of 186 recommendations made betwixt 2010-11 and 2015-16, arsenic galore arsenic 117 ATNs from 12 departments remained pending arsenic of June 2023.
