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UP housing dept refuses CAG to audit GDA accounts


Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh’s housing and urban planning department has refused permission to the state unit of the Comptroller and Auditor General to audit the accounts of Ghaziabad Development Authority and other development authorities. The housing department and GDA bosses reportedly told the CAG team that it did not have any right to conduct its audit and it was capable of doing it. The matter has now reached the Raj Bhawan for a solution.
Principal Secretary, Housing, Sadakant, and GDA Vice-Chairman refused permission to Auditor general Vinita Mishra, CAG’s state head when she sought details of the GDA’s expenditures.
The housing department and the GDA argued that the CAG can audit only consolidated funds of the state. Since the funds that the development authorities receive from the state Government don’t fall under this category, so the CAG can’t audit GDA accounts, the housing department reportedly told the CAG team.
Refuting this claim Mishra contented that all kinds of receipts worth Rs 1 crore and above fall under the category of consolidated funds. CAG had full right to audit GDA accounts as the fund received by it was much more than Rs 1 crore, she said
The AG then approached Governor Ram Naik for a solution. Naik has sought legal opinion on the issue.
According to media reports quoting sources, the Governor after going through the correspondence between the state government and the AG UP, has concluded that the UP Government’s stand was ‘untenable’ and it must allow audit of the development authorities including, the GDA.
Naik has also written to UP CM Akhilesh Yadav and also spoke to him regarding the matter. On not receiving any response, media reports quoting Governor House sources, said “now, he has written to President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union home minister Rajnath Singh and Union finance minister Arun Jaitley.”
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