Will AAP Leaders Face Felony Circumstances Based mostly On CAG Studies? PAC To Resolve In 3 Months – News18
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Two reviews of the Comptroller and Auditor Normal (CAG) — one on well being and one other on excise — have been introduced within the Delhi Meeting and, “as per established parliamentary process”, forwarded to the Public Accounts Committee
Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta exhibits a replica of the CAG report within the Delhi Meeting. (PTI)
The destiny of Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP) leaders, concerning potential legal expenses based mostly on the CAG reviews just lately made public, hangs within the steadiness as a call will probably be taken in three months, following the submission of a report by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
Two reviews of the Comptroller and Auditor Normal (CAG) have been introduced within the Delhi Meeting — one on well being and one other on excise. Each the reviews, “as per established parliamentary process”, have been forwarded to the PAC that can submit its report inside a interval of three months.
The CAG on Excise report was despatched to PAC on February 27, whereas the second on well being was despatched on Monday.
“So, if issues occur on time, we are able to anticipate that the observations will probably be there by Could-end or the start of June. If there may be any want for legal motion in opposition to the earlier authorities, it will likely be taken based mostly on the PAC report,” a BJP chief informed News18.
The chief added that the CAG report had proven the true face of AAP and the way their actions weren’t pro-people.
On Monday, the Delhi Meeting witnessed an in depth dialogue on the CAG report on well being.
Speaker Vijender Gupta, within the concluding remarks, mentioned severe irregularities in Delhi’s well being division had been uncovered within the CAG report.
The Speaker dominated that the PAC of the Home ought to prioritise the examination of the CAG report and submit its findings inside three months.
The Meeting Secretariat was additionally requested to right away ahead the report back to the well being division, which should submit its Motion Taken Word inside one month.
Fourteen extra reviews are pending to be tabled within the Home.
CAG on Well being
The report, which was tabled within the Home on February 28, lined the interval from 2016-17 to 2021-22, throughout which the AAP authorities was in energy in Delhi. The report pointed to a number of vital shortcomings and irregularities, together with extreme scarcity of healthcare personnel, unavailability of important medicines and tools, many hospitals lacked the mandatory medicines and medical tools required for affected person remedy.
The report additionally highlighted poor ambulance providers as most CATS ambulances had been discovered to be working with out the important life-saving tools.
The well being division additionally reportedly didn’t utilise 15 plots of land that had been particularly acquired for healthcare amenities.
Additionally, a good portion of the allotted price range remained unutilised every year. Notably, 78.41 per cent of the well being infrastructure price range in 2018-19 was left unspent, as per the CAG.
Whereas the BJP MLAs used the report back to assault AAP, the latter mentioned the reviews acknowledged the celebration’s work.
AAP MLA Gopal Rai said that even the CAG report acknowledges that amongst all state healthcare fashions in India, Delhi’s healthcare system ranked first. He mentioned the AAP authorities took vital steps to supply high quality healthcare to Delhiites, introducing Mohalla Clinics for the primary time within the nation.
CAG on EXCISE
On February 25, AAP’s Chief of Opposition Atishi mentioned the CAG report validated the celebration’s long-standing claims of large-scale corruption beneath the previous excise coverage. The report highlights how earnings had been manipulated by underreporting 28 per cent of liquor gross sales, whereas unchecked smuggling from Uttar Pradesh and Haryana drained Delhi’s income.
Final week, News18 had reported that Gupta had ordered additional investigation into the matter “in order that the responsible are punished” after the meeting held an in depth dialogue on the CAG report on the now-scrapped excise coverage.
The CAG report on Excise confirmed that the now-scrapped Delhi Liquor Coverage has resulted in income lack of about Rs 2,002 crore to the federal government, together with round Rs 890 crore as a result of not retendering the surrendered retail licenses and a further Rs 941 crore as a result of exemptions which needed to be given to the zonal licensees.
