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<ul><li>New deal saved 2.86% for the Indian exchequer, says India's federal auditor.</li><li>Latest report tabled in the Parliament will help Modi in fighting corruption charges from the opposition.</li><li>Opposition had hoped to corner the Modi government over the controversial defence deal.</li></ul> The Narendra Modi government struck a better deal than the Congress, that's the verdict from the <keyword id="6379775" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Comptroller-and-Auditor-General-of-India">Comptroller and Auditor General of India</keyword> (CAG), the country's federal auditor, which tabled its report on the controversial 2015 deal to buy 36 Rafale jets from French company Dassault, according to news reports. "Compared to the 126 aircraft deal, India managed to save 17.08% money for the India-specific enhancements in the 36 Rafale contract," news agency ANI said, adding that,"the delivery schedule of the first 18 Rafale aircraft is better than the one proposed in the 126 aircraft deal, by five months." However, the full price of the jets have been redacted in the report based on the insistence of the Defence Ministry citing the Indo-French agreement of 2008 and the provisions of inter-government agreement, another news agency IANS reported. In April 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced that India will buy 36 French-manufactured Rafale fighter jets off-the-shelf. This was a departure from the original plan, under the previous regime, under which India would buy 18 off-the-shelf jets and another 108 would be assembled by the state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Limited or HAL in Bengaluru. Modi , however, intervened and decided to buy 36 "ready-to-fly" fighters instead of trying to acquire technology from Dassault and make it in India. "A Defence Ministry team in March 2015 recommended the scrapping of the 126 Rafale deal saying that Dassault Aviation was not the lowest bidder and EADS (European Aeronautic Defence &amp; Space Company) was not fully compliant with the tender requirements," the CAG report said according to ANI. The opposition parties had cornered the incumbent Modi government alleging that the ₹590 billion deal was more expensive and it included kickbacks. It was also said that the deal was made to help Anil Ambani, whose Reliance Naval and Engineering was reportedly brought in to support Dassault. Both entities have denied this. Modi also faced a direct <a href="https://twitter.com/INCIndia/status/1093733762104524800/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1093733762104524800&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hindustantimes.com%2Findia-news%2Fdefence-ministry-note-proves-pm-bypassed-negotiations-with-france-on-rafale-deal-rahul%2Fstory-EUd4UAbFWTQ9lX6XODsLkM.html" data-type="tilCustomLink" target="_blank">charge</a> after news reports revealed that the Prime Minister's Office had intervened in the deal negotiations and in fact, dismissed the apprehensions of its own Defence Ministry. The latest report from CAG will be a big blessing for Prime Minister Narendra Modi who will be seeking re-election in the upcoming summer. However, the opposition was already prepared. Prior to the release of the report, the Congress party had pre-emptively dismissed the findings of the report, explaining that Rajiv Mehrishi, the current Comptroller and Auditor General of India, took part in the deal’s negotiations.

CAG report on Rafale deal is a blessing for Modi government

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has slammed defence public sector units (PSUs) for performing poorly because of which the objective of self-reliance could not be met. The reason, <keyword id="6356851" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="CAG">CAG</keyword> said, was that a majority of contracts that were entrusted to these PSUs were delayed, which adversely affected Indian Army’s plans for capability enhancement. 
 
The report from CAG repeats what the private sector feels about getting more orders from the government, since a majority of contracts in the last two years have gone to PSUs. As per the report, 63% of the contracts given to PSUs from 2007 to 2012 were delayed for various reasons. 
 "Besides impacting defence preparedness, the delay had financial implications towards loss of interest on payments made to <keyword id="3516494" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="DPSUs">DPSUs</keyword>. The objective of self-reliance in defence production had also not been achieved," said the CAG report which was presented in the parliament yesterday. 
 
Also read: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Defence-minister-considering-purchases-worth-Rs-1-lakh-crore/articleshow/52882935.cms">Defence minister is considering purchases worth Rs 1 lakh crore</a> 
 
The<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Anil-Ambani-reliance-defence/articleshow/52500626.cms"> private sector</a> in defence manufacturing has already complained to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) that the defence ministry is favouring PSUs despite their delays, because of which they don’t received orders as per their capabilities. 
 
The <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/CAG-No-record-available-for-Rs-44000-cr-spending-by-ministries/articleshow/48237252.cms">CAG </a>report was prepared after a thorough study of at least nine<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Indias-defence-manufacturing-deals-will-take-place-under-these-5-categories/articleshow/52432285.cms"> major army projects</a> and assessing all contracts placed on PSUs. As per the report, the "inordinate delay in supply of critical weapons and equipment" had "hampered the modernisation and capability enhancement plan of Indian Army". 
 
The delays also led to the government facing a loss of Rs 1,931 crore because of accrued interest on advances that were paid to these DPSUs. 
 
Also read: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/CAG-thrashes-ONGC-over-Rs-8k-Crores-loss/articleshow/50106939.cms">CAG thrashes ONGC over Rs 8k Crores loss</a> 
 
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CAG slams defence PSUs for miserably failing self-reliance goals

New Delhi, Dec 2 () The Delhi government has maintained a revenue surplus over the last five years, a CAG audit report on state finances tabled in the Assembly on Monday said.
 The audit report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) for the year ended March 2018 noted that tax revenue and non-tax revenue also registered an increase of 14.70 per cent and 101.05 per cent respectively over the previous year.
 The report was tabled in the House by Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia.
 "The government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD) has maintained a revenue surplus over the last five years from 2013-14 to 2017-18," it stated.
 The grants in aid received by Delhi from the Centre decreased from Rs 2,825 crore (2016-17) to Rs 2,184 crore (2017-18). This included grants from Centre in lieu of share in central taxes which has remained stagnant at Rs 325 crore since 2001-02 although the central tax collections have grown substantially since 2001-02, the report pointed.
 Delhi government led by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been consistently demanding that the Centre raise its share in central taxes.
 The Delhi government till March 31, 2018 had invested Rs 19,173 crore in statutory corporations, rural banks, joint stock companies and co-operatives on which it received 0.8 per cent return. However, it paid interest at an average rate of 8.58 per cent on its borrowings during 2017-18.
 The report also pointed to slow recovery of loans disbursed by it to municipal corporations, Delhi Transport Corporation(DTC) and Delhi Jal Board.
 "Against loans amounting to Rs 26,620.04 crore disbursed to Delhi Jal Board during 1998-2018, Rs 351.16 crore was repaid leaving Rs 26,268.89 crore outstanding as on March 31, 2018. DTC that was disbursed Rs 11,837.69 crore during 1996-2011, paid Rs 161.55 crore til March 31,2018.
 The three municipal corporations-North, East and South Delhi Municipal Corporations- had outstanding loans of Rs 2,037.54 crore, Rs 1,395.90 crore and Rs 381.45 crore, respectively, till March 31, 2018, stated the report.
 As per the <keyword id="384220" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="CAG-report">CAG report</keyword> the overall fiscal liabilities of Delhi government were Rs 33,569 crore in 2017-18. The fiscal liabilities were 4.89 per cent of gross state domestic product (GSDP), 86.81 per cent of revenue receipts and 92.01 per cent of Delhi's own resources. The fiscal deficit of Rs 1,051 crore in 2016-17 turned to fiscal surplus of Rs 113 crore in 2017-18 and stood 0.02 per cent of GSDP, it added.
 The report also underlined "substantial delays" in submission of utilisation certificates by various grantee institutions, fund surrenders involving Rs 1,249.81 crore, in 2017-18, it said.
 The report noted significant amounts of expenditure and receipts booked under "other" categories, affecting "transparency" in financial reporting. VIT RT

Delhi govt maintained revenue surplus over last five years: CAG report on state finances

New Delhi, Dec 11 () Six of the seven coal producing subsidiaries of the world's largest miner CIL did not devise a policy as mandated by the environment ministry, according to a CAG report tabled in Parliament on Wednesday.
 "Coal India Ltd (CIL) amended its original Corporate Environment Policy (CEP) and formulated a comprehensive Environment Policy only in March, 2012, followed by a revised policy in December 2018.
 "However, six out seven coal producing subsidiaries of CIL did not formulate a policy as mandated by MoEF&amp;CC (Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change) which stipulated that a well laid down environment policy duly approved by the Board of Directors of the subsidiaries needs to be in place," the report by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) said.
 Further, guidelines containing the responsibility and delegation at different levels in environment discipline were formulated by CIL, but the same were not dovetailed in their operating manual by the subsidiaries, according to the CAG report on 'Assessment of Environment Impact due to Mining Activities and its Mitigation in Coal India Ltd and its Subsidiaries'.
 CAG further said the pollutants exceeded the limits prescribed by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) in eight mines across three subsidiaries of CIL.
 "Further during 2013-18, 62 lakh kilo-litre (KL) of untreated water was discharged to nearby water bodies by Lakhanpur and Basundhara (W) mines of MCL thereby contaminating ground water," it said.
 Coal India arms CCL, BCCL and SECL continued to use ground water for their mining operations without obtaining no objection certificate from Central Ground Water Authority. The subsidiaries did not install sewage treatment plant at the residential colonies of the collieries, thereby contaminating the ground water.
 "Due to absence of mechanical brooming/industrial cleaner in Piparwar OCM of CCL, the spillage from overloaded truck/dumpers accumulated along the sides of the bridge of Safi river, was not cleaned periodically," it said.
 These eventually drained into the river, thereby contaminating the water. Further, the rejects of Kathara washery of CCL were found to be contaminating the Damodar river. SID ABM

Six CIL arms did not formulate policy as mandated by environment ministry: CAG

The government had made verification of all <keyword id="117983" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="SIM-card">SIM card</keyword> subscribers mandatory in 2008. But a <keyword id="6356851" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="CAG">CAG</keyword> report tabled in Parliament, said the identities of at least 4.59 crore subscribers were still unknown. 
 "Our examination of the records revealed that the seven major service providers failed to adhere to <keyword id="16054" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="DoT">DoT</keyword>'s instructions regarding 100% verification of identity of subscribers before sale of SIM cards," CAG said. 
 
"It indicated ineffective and poor control of DoT over telecom service providers to ensure 100% subscriber verification essential for national security even after seven years," the CAG said after its verification of defective CAFs. 
 
The mobile subscriber base of service providers increased from 26 crore in 2007-08 to 92 crore in 2011-12. Revenue of these companies shot up from Rs 1.29 lakh crore to Rs 1.95 lakh crore during this period, but they "failed to comply with the instructions of DoT regarding subscriber verification", the auditor said. 
 
Raising security concern, the federal auditor said despite the fact that these unverified subscribers posed grave threat to national security, the department of telecom was ineffective in bringing the violators to book.

Identities Of 4.59 Crore Mobile Users Not Verified: CAG

The Comptroller and <keyword id="2088691" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Auditor-General-of-India">Auditor General of India</keyword> (<keyword id="6356851" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="CAG">CAG</keyword>) plans to audit the impact of note ban and the affect it has had on government tax revenues, said <keyword id="1925426" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="CAG-Shashi-Kant-Sharma">CAG Shashi Kant Sharma</keyword>, according to <keyword id="6367495" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="PTI">PTI</keyword>. 
 In an interview to PTI, he said the auditor is gearing up to audit tax revenues under the new Goods and <keyword id="645517" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="services-tax">Services Tax</keyword> (GST) regime and has started capacity building and reorienting its audit methodology and procedures. 
 Among the special audits, CAG has already completed audit of agricultural crop insurance scheme and flood control and flood forecasting and is now engaged in several important audits like Right to Education, National Rural Health Mission, defence pensions and <keyword id="2259162" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ganga-rejuvenation">Ganga Rejuvenation</keyword>, he said. "These reports should be ready by the end of the current year." 
 <keyword id="445" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sharma">Sharma</keyword> asserted that CAG has audit jurisdiction over any body or authority which has any relation to government revenues and expenditure and resistance by some like city development bodies, DISCOMs and metro corporations will wither away. 
 
"We plan to audit certain issues related to fiscal impact of demonetisation, largely its impact on tax revenues," he said. 
 
The government had withdrawn old 500 and 1,000 rupee notes from circulation on November 8 last year, and announced a new tax amnesty scheme for those holding unaccounted junked currency. 
 
CAG audit may look into expenditure on printing of notes, RBI dividend payout and banking transaction data. 
 The auditor has also conveyed to the government its stand on the recent move of the <keyword id="6355040" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="GST-Council">GST Council</keyword> to delete section 65 of the preliminary draft that authorised CAG to audit GST. 
 
"Our mandate covers GST just like the earlier taxation regimes were covered. We have already started work on restructuring of our revenue audit arrangements to methis likely challenge when GST is introduced. 
 
"This exercise would include issues of capacity building, data access and analysis, reorientation of audit methodology and procedures and developing end-to-end IT solutions," he said. 
 
Sharma said executive, legislature, judiciary and audit have clearly demarcated roles and responsibilities. 
 
"The framers of our Constitution were fully aware of the concept of checks and balances and hence you find the mention of Judiciary and CAG in the fifth part of the Constitution along with legislature and executive," he said. "The CAG's DPC Act of 1971 provides the details of the mandate and scope of audit available to us." 
 
Stating that there are no lacunae in CAG's empowerment but with advent of time, the governance models have undergone changes. 
 The September 2014 judgement of the <keyword id="6354977" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Supreme-Court">Supreme Court</keyword> in the telecom case "reinforced an important principle that wherever public resources are being used by private companies for revenue generation, CAG will have a duty to examine as to whether the government is getting due share of such revenue," he said. 
 
"So, I can say that the bodies and authorities which have any relation to government revenues and expenditure are under the audit jurisdiction of CAG," he said. 
 
City development bodies, electricity distribution companies and metro corporations "resist" CAG audit on the ground of being autonomous or on the ground of getting no support of the government although they perform the functions which were earlier being performed by the government departments, he said. 
 
"I believe the situation will settle down with passage of time and such resistance will wither away," he added.

Demonetization – profit or
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NEW DELHI: Dr Manmohan Singh’s legacy came under yet another round of intense attack with former <keyword id="6356851" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="CAG">CAG</keyword> Vinod Rai alleging that the former <keyword id="71" type="POSITION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Prime-Minister">prime minister</keyword> was aware of major scandals as they unfolded, refuting claims Singh was not fully aware of the machinations that resulted in humungous loss to the public exchequer and mauled the <keyword id="1575" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Congress">Congress</keyword> party’s electoral fortunes. 
 The former CAG’s revelations challenge the defence of Singh that the <keyword id="6446767" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="2G-scam">2G scam</keyword> was perpetuated by A Raja using the political necessity of Congress to humour DMK, thus fastening the mega swindle to the reformist PM. 
 
Rai, whose book “Not Just An Accountant” is set for release in the next few days, claimed that Dr Singh was alerted by his senior cabinet minister Kamal Nath about the brewing 2G scam. 
 
Adding credibility to Rai’s claim, Kamal Nath admitted that he had cautioned Dr Singh against 2G allocations. “I wrote to the Prime Minister that I am hearing all sorts of things are going on in 2G allocation. The PM chose to do nothing,” Nath told Times Now. The former commerce minister said he feels that had Dr Singh intervened “things would have been different for the Congress”. However, there was no point flogging a dead horse, said Nath even as he emphasized that “A Raja was prosecuted for what he did”, and that Rai should not resort to sensationalism to boost the sales of his book. 
 
 
 
The former CAG also claimed that he was under pressure to drop the name of the former civil aviation minister from the federal auditor’s report on the controversial purchase of aircraft for public carriers. He said the then minister, Praful Patel, had “nudged” the public carriers to go in for the large-scale purchase. 
 
“All hell broke loose when the draft report reached the ministry and bureaucrats of all hues tried to prompt the CAG to drop the word “nudge”. 
 
Patel denied the charge saying that he never met Rai. 
 Rai’s is only the latest book from those who have had a ringside view of Dr Singh’s prime ministership, and who later chose to record the unpleasant realities of the PMO under him and the <keyword id="26374" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="UPA-government">UPA government</keyword>. Dr Singh’s former media advisor Sanjaya Baru, former external affairs minister K Natwar Singh and former coal secretary PC Parakh have all recorded the makings of many scandals that have marked the UPA decade, portraying the former PM as the leader who was not in control or unwilling to intervene. 
 Elaborating on what he had told TOI exclusively on August 24, Rai on Thursday told Time Now that he was approached by three Congress MPs – former <keyword id="6356398" type="POSITION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Law-Minister">Law minister</keyword> Ashwani Kumar who had to resign for allegedly pressuring the CBI to dilute PMO’s role in the Coalgate scam, <keyword id="56431" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Sanjay-Nirupam">Sanjay Nirupam</keyword> and Sandeep Dikshit – to drop the name of the Prime Minister from the CAG report on 2G spectrum allocation. 
 
 
Manmohan Singh’s legacy as PM came under yet another round of intense attack with former CAG Vinod Rai alleging that the former prime minister was aware of major scandals as they unfolded. 
 
“I mentioned in the book that after the PAC meeting on the 2G, Congress MPs did tell me that keep the PM out of this,” Rai said. 
 
Reacting to Rai’s claim, Sanjay Nirupam said the former CAG was lying. “I have never spoken to him,” Nirupam said. 
 
Rai said the irregularities in allocation of 2G licences date back to the tenure of Raja’s predecessor and his DMK colleague Dayanidhi Maran in the telecom ministry. “And we had evidence of the licence being given out at particular prices not only from Raja's time but before also from the previous minister who was also from the DMK. We found that there was a track record that the previous minister had started in a particular way and Raja followed that way. But Raja kept informing the PM what he was planning to do,” he said. 
 
Rai said then PM Manmohan Singh’s own cabinet colleagues were advising him against the licence allocation in arbitrary manner. “Like his own cabinet colleagues were saying that lets discuss this in a GoM. The finance ministry was also saying that lets bring it to a group of ministers. The law ministry had also advised him to do that. But somehow it did not take place,” he said. 
 
 
 
<keyword id="204796" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Former-Union">Former Union</keyword> minister Kamal Nath (L) has claimed that he had cautioned Manmohan Singh against 2G allocations and slammed the former PM's inaction over the issue. 
 
The former CAG said former PM had enough time to stop the allocations. “It could have been stopped because between this letter of 26th December and 10th of January when the LOIs were actually issued, there was a fortnight’s time,” he said. 
 
“The buck stops at the PM's desk in any parliamentary democracy. He is the CEO of the country. He can stop, or he can initiate, both. I have written in the book that he probably chose not to stop,” Rai said.

Manmohan Singh Knew Of 2G Scam As It Unfolded, Ex-CAG Vinod Rai Says

Mumbai, Mar 4 () Power sector PSUs in Maharashtraincurred an overall net loss of Rs 3328.13 crorein 2017-18,according to a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG)reporttabled in the state legislature on Wednesday.During 2017-18, out of the eight working state PSUs,one earned profit of Rs 814.51 crore, five incurred loss of Rs4142.64 croreand the remaining two posted marginal profit/loss, said the CAG report on public sector undertakings.The profit-making PSU was Maharashtra StateElectricity Transmission Company(Rs 814.51 crore), where asmajor losses were incurred byMaharashtra State electricityDistribution Company (Rs 3176.49 crore) and Maharashtra StatePower Generation Company (Rs 929.71 crore), the report said.Overall, power sector PSUs incurred a combined netloss of Rs 3328.13 crore(Rs 4142.64 crore minus Rs 814.51crore) in the financial year under review, it said.The CAG noted that the balance of investment of thestate government in the share capital of the power sectorPSUsincreased to Rs 88,086.99 crorein 2017-18 from Rs 0.45crore in 1999-2000.The present value of state government investments inthese entities up to March 31, 2018, worked out to be Rs1,18,570.22 crore, the auditor said.The report said Maharashtra State ElectricityDistribution Company made an excess payment of Rs 1.94 crorefor purchase of power from a bagasse-based co-generationproject due to incorrect application of energy tariff. MRRSY RSY

Maha power PSUs post overall Rs 3,328 cr net loss in FY18: CAG

A day after the CAG released a report critical of the food served in stations and trains, the <keyword id="76223" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ministry-of-Railways">Ministry of Railways</keyword> today said the IRCTC has formed a new catering policy by unbundling the current services on trains, according to a PTI news report.In order to better the quality of food, the Indian <keyword id="6356740" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Railway">Railway</keyword> Catering and Tourism Corporation Ltd (IRCTC) will set up new kitchens and upgrade the existing ones, the ministry said in an official statement.The IRCTC has been mandated to carry out the unbundling by creating a distinction, primarily, between food preparation and its distribution, it said.The statement came after the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), in a report yesterday, had termed the food served at stations and in trains "unfit for human consumption".The ministry said as per the new catering policy of 2017, the IRCTC will manage the services on all mobile units and pantry car contracts will be reassigned to the railways' catering arm. Meals for all mobile units will be picked up from the nominated kitchens owned, operated and managed by the IRCTC, it said.

CAG report impact: Railway food to undergo policy change

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