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DGP delayed clearing revised charges, caused loss of Rs 97 crore
The CAG report released on Monday said that the state government and DGP’s inability to revive the police guard, escort and bandobast charges as resulted in a loss of revenue worth Rs 97.92 crore.
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After being proposed in 2007 and the process being simplified in 2008 on standardising the charges, the revised charges came into effect only in March 2017. This happened despite the CAG pointing out it in 2013.
The department collects charges for police personnel deployed for regular guard duty and escort services in banks and other establishments and for security arrangements for private events. According to the CAG report, it took 10 years (2007-08 to 2017) for the department to implement the standardisation process and it caused the short of revenue collection.
The DGP’s delay in processing the revision caused the state to lose out on Rs.97.92 crore of revenue.
Another point the CAG observed was the inordinate delay in procurement of jammers for central prisons led to additional expenditure Rs.81.36 lakh which could have been avoided. Besides, the number of jammers were restricted to 12 instead of originally required 15, making it potentially ineffective to disable the use of cell phones in the prisons.
Rs 3.7 cr grant under animal husbandry lost
The Tamil Nadu government could not avail Centre’s grant of Rs 3.7 crore allotted to the Animal Husbandry Department as it did not return the unused money from earlier funds and failed to furnish utilisation certificates for the money spent.
The latest CAG report released on Monday stated that the acute shortage of qualified veterinarians and absence of adequate infrastructure affected the delivery of medical service to livestock and poultry. The report also found that Rs 15.53 crore was blocked and parked without being utilised in disease prevention despite the objective of the department being to provide efficient medical services through veterinary institutions, which include disease prevention, diagnosis and control.
The report noted the absence of periodical upgradation of institutions based on number of cases treated, inadequate number of animal disease intelligence units and delay in implementation of Emergency Mobile Veterinary Service to 27 districts due to change of implementation agencies. Shortcomings in monitoring framework for delivery of services were also observed.
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