Some points out of the CAG Report on working of Delhi Govt. :

DJB :

The CAG says that the Delhi Jal Board (DJB), responsible for the territory's water supply, has added only 1 MGD (million gallons per day) capacity of sewerage treatment plants, while laying about 900 km of sewer line during 2007-12 with an expenditure of Rs 1,634.18 crore.

 

“The DJB had not prepared any perspective plan for sewage management for XIth five year plan, and could collect and treat only 367 MGD (54%) out of 680 MGD of sewage generated in Delhi,” the report said.

 

Furthermore, there was a lack of equitable distribution of drinking water within the NCT, the CAG said, “due to lack of reliable data on population and water supplied to different areas,” and the absence of comprehensive metering of water meant that “less than 40% of water produced was billed during last three years.”

 

"The drinking water was not being distributed equitably amongst the population due to lack of reliable data on population and water supplied to different areas," it said

 

HOSPITALS :

In New Delhi’s hospitals, “emergency departments were not providing required services due to lack of essential equipment, medicines and adequate staff,” the report said, adding that “all the test checked hospitals were lacking in facility for purified and clean drinking water.”

 

In GTB, 31 medicines were not available for a month last year while in Rao Tula Ram Memorial hospital, patients complained that they had to purchase medicines from outside.

At Ambedkar hospital, the CAG found that 47 essential drugs were not available on many occasions during a period between 2009 and 2012.

More curiously, the CAG said that the 1000-bed Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital and LN (Lok Nayak) Hospital, “have been using ambulances, mainly for miscellaneous purposes instead of for the patients”, apart from the fact that these vehicles did not have “essential equipment for basic life support system”.

 

"The OPD services were affected due to shortage of medical equipment, medicines, injections, infrastructure and medical support items. The Emergency Departments were not providing required services due to lack of essential equipment, medicines and adequate staff," it said.

In a glaring shortcomings, it was found that five hospitals did not have blood banks while the license for blood bank was not renewed in GTB hospital.

Underlining issues at the Directorate of Health Services, the CAG reported that no construction work has started at the land sites for 10 hospitals, ranging in capacity between 60-700, that were allocated between 1997 and 2008.

 

DELHI POLICE :

“Most of the funds earmarked for modernisation of Communication Branch of Delhi Police were not utilized,” the CAG said, “and as such, the modernisation of communication network in Delhi Police was not achieved.”

“Physical implementation of Intelligent Traffic System could not be started as of March 2012 due to deficient planning, thereby, depriving users of benefit of world class traffic system in Delhi,” it added.

 

TAX REVENUE :

While the tax revenues of the state increased by 21% to Rs 3,494 crore, the report pointed out short payment of value added tax ( VAT ) amounting over Rs 2,321 crore.

CAG has blamed imprudent decision making of the Delhi government in not getting the insurance cover on the basis of current valuation of assets by Indraprastha Power Generation Company Limited, resulting in a loss of Rs 2.33 crore due to under insurance.

The non-tax revenue, which constituted 2.06% of total revenue receipts during 2011-12 decreased by 89% to Rs 3,728 crore over previous year, it added.

Besides, the report also mentioned that about 39% of the audited cable operators in the city failed to pay taxes for the past three years. Moreover, the state department of finance was unable to recover entertainment tax Rs 1.26 crore from 12 cinema hall owners and luxury tax amounting to Rs  9.76 crore from the hoteliers.

 

TRANSPORT :

The auditor has criticized the department of transport for implementing the cluster bus scheme, “without a well laid out plan and concurrence of the Finance Department or Legislature.” The scheme involved corporatisation of private stage carriage buses.

 

DELHI TRANSCO :

The CAG also slammed Delhi Transco Ltd, a Delhi government company in-charge of major power transmission lines, for not being able to recover an amount of Rs 754.83 crore as transmission charge from BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd and BSES Yamuna Power Ltd.

 

OTHERS :

On implementation of projects under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, the auditor said the city Government could not utilise Rs 196.88 crore out of total grant of Rs 2823.18 crore.

"Construction of 44,720 Dwelling Units had to be dropped due to non-availability of hindrance free sites. Only 85 out of completed 10,684 DUs could be allotted to the beneficiaries," it said.

The auditor said delay in taking decisions by the Government escalated the cost of construction of Signature bridge on river Yamuna by Rs 672 crore.

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B S Vohra