PAC slams Def Min, Maha govt for Adarsh scam

A Parliamentary panel has rapped the defence ministry and the Maharashtra government for ‘monumental failure’ at all levels of governance with certain officials abusing their position leading to the Adarsh Housing Society scam. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in its draft report on the Adarsh scam has said a group of select officials holding key posts subverted rules and regulations as also facts and took the ruse of welfare of servicemen, war widows and children. ‘The Committee’s scrutiny corroborated the irregularities in the entire process right from the allocation of land to the society, obtaining ‘no objection certificate’ (NoC) from the Army, extension of various consessions by the Government of Maharasthra, getting NoC from BEST for transfer of developmental rights of the adjoining land, obtaining clearances for residential development in Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) by certain officials who abused their official position for personal gain,’ says the report.