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Government spent Rs 1,157 cr in 2017-18 without approval: CAG
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SME Times News Bureau | 12 Feb, 2019
The Centre spent Rs 1,150 crore more during the last fiscal across
various grants without Parliament's authorisation, the national auditor
said here on Tuesday.
"During 2017-18 in cases across 13 grants,
there was excess expenditure over total authorisation aggregating to Rs
1,156.80 crore without obtaining approval of Parliament," the
Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India said.
The CAG's
financial audit tabled in the Lok Sabha pointed to the Finance
Ministry's failure to devise an effective mechanism to impose financial
discipline on ministries and departments to avoid recurrence of "such
serious lapses", as had been recommended by the Public Accounts
Committee (PAC).
Under the government guidelines, the 13 cases
listed relate to expenditure arising out of a new policy decision not
brought to the notice of Parliament earlier, and to relatively large
expenditure arising out of major expansion of an existing activity.
"As
per the guidelines, any augmentation of provision by way of
re-appropriation to the object heads -- grants-in-aid, subsidies and
major works -- require prior approval of Parliament," the CAG said.
The
PAC in its report had noted "these serious lapses are a pointer towards
faulty budget estimation and deficient observances of financial rules
by the ministries/departments concerned".
The CAG report stated
that the PAC's earlier recommendation that "there is an imperative need
on the part of the Ministry of Finance to devise an effective mechanism
for imposing financial discipline on all the ministries/departments to
avoid recurrence of such serious lapses".
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