CAG finds irregularities worth Rs 160 cr in Delhi during LG rule

“Test check of the records of 74 units of the department of trade and taxes, state excise, transport and revenue conducted during 2014-15 revealed under-assessment/short levy/loss of revenue and other irregularities involving Rs 159.57 crore in 506 cases,” said the CAG report on the government of NCT of Delhi for the year ended March 2015.

During the course of the year, CAG said the departments concerned accepted under-assessment and other deficiencies of Rs 1.45 crore and recovered an amount of Rs 4.68 lakh, which were pointed out in the audit during 2014-15. The report tabled in Delhi Assembly on Monday covers the activities of revenue and social and economic sectors (PSUs) and social, general and economic Sectors (Non-PSUs). The current AAP government, led by Arvind Kejriwal, was in power in the state only for a small duration of the period under the CAG review.

The total revenue receipts of the Delhi government in 2014-15 were Rs 29,584.59 crore compared with Rs 27,980.69 crore in 2013-14. Out of this, 92 per cent was raised through tax revenue (Rs 26,603.90 crore) and non-tax revenue (Rs 632.55 crore). The remaining eight per cent was received from the Central government as grants-in-aid (Rs 2,348.14 crore).

It is also to be noted that hospitals under the Delhi government procured items and consumables which lay unused in stock for prolonged periods without assessing their requirement resulting in blocking of Rs 3.16 crore, observed the CAG in its audit of the years 2010-2015. 

Audit scrutiny of stock registers of Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital, GB Pant Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Guru Gobind Singh government hospital, Guru Nanak Eye Centre and Lok Nayak Hospital showed that they procured 110 items costing Rs 1.91 crore, much in excess of the actual requirement.