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CAG finds Narendra Modi govt in Rs 17,000 cr losses

GANDHINAGAR: The irregularities and corruption by Narendra Modi government caused a cumulative loss of nearly Rs 17,000 crore says Comptroller and Auditor General reports for 2009-10 and 2010-11, placed before the Gujarat assembly on the last day of the budget session on Friday.

Public sector undertaking (PSU), Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC), turns out to be the main culprits showing irregularities leading to losses of up to Rs 12,400 crore.

There were regular unspent “excesses” left in all departments over the last four years, and that there were “last minute fund releases and issuance of re-appropriation/surrender orders at the fag end, particularly on the last day of the year” slams reports over the handling of finances by the Gujarat government,

State-owned power distribution companies (DISCOMs) also bled the exchequer, according to the CAG reports. CAG also came down heavily on the government for its failure to keep its water bodies, rivers, lakes and ponds, free of pollution. Saying the Sabarmati Riverfront project’s planning and scope was “inadequate”, CAG underlined that the project “defeated” the objective of keeping the river clean. Central Effluent Treatment Plants were not complying with norms on quality of discharge either, it said.

In a shocking revelation CAG said out of 170 urban local bodies, 46 were discharging sewage into rivers out of which only six had sewage treatment plants to release treated sewage into the rivers and nine local bodies discharged untreated sewage into the lakes, 26 into natural drains, and nine into the sea.

The irregularities are also find in the water supply project with unhealthy water being supplied to the villagers resulting in water borne disease. Since all MLAs of congress expect four were suspended from house their could be no debate possible in the house.

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