In a major setback on Rs. 3600crore VVIP Chopper Deal Scandal, the Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai will now take the charge of the controversial procurement of helicopters by the government’s department of defence. Read more
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Government lost Rs10.67 lakh crore by not auctioning coal
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) deals bad allegations indirectly that it was behind the leakage of the 110-page draft report of the coal ministry’s decision to approved 155 coal acreages without bidding for allocation of coal blocks between 2006 and 2009 that led to lose of Rs 10.67 lakh crore “revenues” to private and public firms.
Clarifying the denial report called “preliminary observations” that refused to be as per an initial draft, the CAG wrote a letter to the Prime Minister saying,” In the extant case the details being brought out were observations which are under discussion at a very preliminary stage and do not even constitute our pre-final draft and hence are exceedingly misleading…”
It said, the news report was “exceedingly misleading” and calling for investigation to know the source of the leak. Read more
