Ankit Gupta
JAMMU, Apr 3: Jammu and Kashmir government failed to submit utilisation certificates for grantexceeding Rs 12,000 crore received from the Centre until March 2024, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India has said.
CAG said non-submission of utilisation certificates implies that authorities have not accounted for how the funds were utilised over the years.
Utilisation certificates amounting to Rs 12,074.25 crore (3,663 UCs) were outstanding indicating lack of internal control of administrative departments,” the CAG report on finances for the financial year ended 2023-24 said.
However, what about frauds committed in UCs of RDD of 2003, whereby RDD gets more than 100 of crore bonous but in actual the money was not utilized & was in Banks in SGRY-I & II?
Enquiry was conducted but on the behest of Minister of the time despite proved frauds by BDOs of the time, enquiry was closed & some of the BDOs are still in service & working as DC in J&K & lot were retired on superannuation with honour despite detection of proved frauds of misutilization of Govt Funds & according fraud UC at that time.
However, only one Executive Engineer at that was punished, who was neither a Drawing & Disbursing Officer nor allotting of works authority?
So, it can be observed that J&K is habitual of such issues needed to be acted upon with iron hands to streamline the system.
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