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Vidarbha farmers unhappy with minimum support price for cash crops
@AparnaPallavi1 Issue Date: May 28, 2013
CAG blames Centre for increase in foodgrain procurement cost
Issue Date: May 8, 2013
In its report to Parliament on Tuesday, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has accused the Indian government of adopting a “skewed” method of deciding the minimum support price for food grains. MSP is the price at which government agencies procure wheat and paddy from farmers.
MGNREGA inefficiently managed, finds CAG
Issue Date: Apr 23, 2013
Exactly five years after the employment guarantee programme's pan-India roll out, the programme seems to have lost favour with the rural poor. The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) office submitted its latest audit report on the programme to Parliament on April 23. The audit shows around 20 per cent decline in employment generation under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in the last two years.
SC questions coal ministry’s power to allocate coal blocks
Issue Date: Jan 24, 2013
The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the Union Ministry of Coal, questioning the legality of coal block allocation to companies. Justice R M Lodha and Justice J Chelameswar issued the notice on the public interest petition, seeking probe by a special investigating team into alleged irregularities in coal block allocations.
The petition was filed last year by NGO Common Cause and other eminent citizens, including former cabinet secretary T S R Subramanian, former chief election commissioner N Gopalaswami and others.
TB and respiratory disorders have increased in Bellary: CAG report
Issue Date: Dec 20, 2012
Maharashtra's white paper on irrigation projects fails to answer key questions
Issue Date: Dec 3, 2012
Only 22 housing projects for poor completed under JNNURM, says CAG
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2012
The recent claim of housing and poverty alleviation ministry that housing shortage has become less acute in India is belied by the Comptroller and Auditor General’s (CAG) report tabled in the Parliament on Thursday. It said that only 22 of the 1,517 housing projects for poor people under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) have been completed by due date. CAG stated that the ministry was not well equipped to monitor the progress of JNNURM due to the scale and magnitude of the mission.
CAG finds lapses in dental education
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2012
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has criticised the Union health ministry for allowing 13 new dental colleges to start functioning despite the statutory body for dental education recommending against it.
Dental Council of India (DCI), the statutory body, had rejected licences of 13 new dental colleges after conducting inspections across the country. These colleges did not have enough medical, dental and paramedical staff and lacked infrastructure like college buildings, libraries, hospitals and clinical equipment like dental chairs.
CAG censures standards bureau for delays
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2012
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has slammed the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) for being ineffective in its functioning. CAG has highlighted that the autonomous body, entrusted with the task of setting standards, has not formulated any standards on new and emerging areas affecting health and safety of consumers.
Bureau of Indian Standards failed to prescribe safety norms for mobile phones, towers: CAG report
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2012
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has pulled up the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) for not formulating safety standards for mobile phone handsets and their batteries or prescribing the limit for electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones and towers. The report was submitted to Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee on August 30.
