New Delhi [India], October 10 (ANI): A new auditorium was unveiled in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research at Hindu College in the national capital, according to an official statement on Sunday.

Kohima Mar 23 PTI Despite being a resource-crunch state misappropriation of Rs 207 crore was found in various departments of Nagaland government in financial year 2019-20 a report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India CAG has said The report tabled in the assembly by Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio on Tuesday said that 26 cases of misappropriation of funds were found It said that Rs 20065 crore was siphoned off in 12 departments and Rs 66 crore in other departments A total of Rs 8279 crore was embezzled in the Department of School Education in two cases with Rs 70 crore awaiting departmental and criminal investigation An amount of Rs 2528 crore siphoned off in the Power Department awaits departmental and criminal investigation The CAG report said that three misappropriation cases amounting to Rs 2379 crore were found in the Public Works Department Road Bridges Department Other departments that reported major misappropriation are Planning and Coordination Rs 2023 crore Tourism Rs 1420 crore and Health Family Welfare Rs 1370 crore The CAG asked the departments concerned to furnish a suo motu explanatory note on the audit reports within one month of placing of the report in the assembly It asked the government without waiting for any notice or call from the Public Accounts Committee to submit a suo motu explanatory note indicating the action taken or proposed to be taken within a period of three months from the date of tabling of the audit report PTI NBS ACD ACD

New Delhi Nov 21 PTI The National Green Tribunal has directed the Railway to ensure that tracks are not used for defecation and waste water disposal from habitation nearby A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said private agencies hired for catering or for sanitary management should not dispose waste other than at designated placesIt needs to be ensured that Railway tracks are not abused for defecation and waste water disposal from habitation nearby the bench saidIn the interest of hygiene public health and clean environment it is necessary that the Railway Board ensures development of a model design planSoP to enable individual stations to evolve a suitable Environment Management plan covering all aspects of waste management the bench said in its November 18 orderThe NGT said the locomotive maintenance working area generating hazardous waste oils scrap etc may have waste processing or treatment facility duly authorised by state pollution control board under waste management rules The green panel noted that out of the 720 major railway stations across the country only 11 have applied for consent in terms of the Water Act and Air Act and only three have applied for authorisation under statutory rules under the Environment Protection ActThe NGT had earlier directed the Railways to identify and develop at least 36 stations as eco-smart stations and to submit an action plan for maintaining cleanliness on platforms and tracksThe green panel had asked the Comptroller and Auditor General to conduct a performance audit at regular intervalsThe NGT had said there was an urgent need for the railways to put in place an effective implementation and monitoring mechanism with provisions of fixing accountability of individuals in respect of solid waste disposal littering of solid and plastic wastes defecation etcThe NGT was hearing a petition filed by lawyers Saloni Singh and Arush Pathania seeking steps to check pollution on railway properties particularly on tracks PTI PKS DV DV

New Delhi [India], November 16 (ANI): Pointing out the lapses during previous regimes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the audit was earlier viewed with scepticism while it is now being considered as an important part of value addition.

Kohima Oct 29 PTI The Committee on Public Undertakings COPU of the Nagaland assembly on Friday expressed grave concern over the huge financial loss Rs 192 crore incurred by state-owned Nagaland Hotels Ltd NHLTaking serious cognisance of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India CAG report on the financial loss faced by NHL the COPU headed by MLA Mhathung Yanthan along with other members inspected the two government-run hotels in the state on FridayTalking to the press after inspecting Hotel Japfu here Yanthan said that the committee is of the view that there is room for improvement to overcome the lossesNHL has two functional hotels Hotel Japfu in Kohima and Hotel Saramati in DimapurIn its report laid during the February session of the assembly the committee observed that in spite of making many constructive recommendations to the department concerned by the successive committees over the years to initiate austerity measures to redress the overall losses incurred by NHL no concrete result-oriented strategies were attemptedEven in regard to the implementation of the Voluntary Retirement Scheme VRS proposal or the business plan of revival of the two hotels no tangible steps have been taken by the concerned department it saidYanthan said that Fridays inspection was a follow-up of the committees report to understand the functioning of the hotelsHaving inspected the rooms and surroundings of Hotel Japfu he said the hotel constructed in the late 1980s is quite old but is maintained well and to run such an old hotel is a challenge in itselfThere is still room for improvement and we advised the hotel management to run it efficiently and profitably he saidFurther measures to improve the functioning to attain a certain level of profit would be recommended in the next report which will be tabled in the assembly he saidWe are delving into all the issues and taking up with the departments concerned to address those he addedThe grant-in-aid of Rs 192 crore given by the state government to NHL is a loss incurred by the state Yanthan saidCOPU member MLA Bongkhao Konyak Commissioner and Secretary Nagaland assembly PJ Antony Commissioner and Secretary Industries and Commerce Kekhrievor Kevichusa accompanied the COPU chairman while NHL Managing Director H Pienyu and General Manager Shurhovol Naleo were present PTI NBS SOM SOM

New Delhi The Delhi High Court Tuesday sought response of the Delhi government and Delhi Jal Board on a plea seeking direction to Comptroller and Auditor General to audit the accounts of DJB whose financial audit has allegedly not been carried out for last six yearsA bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh issued notice to the Delhi government DJB and CAG on the petition and listed thematter for further hearing on October 4The petition by Delhi BJP leader Harish Khurana sought direction to DJB to maintain proper accounts and other relevant records and prepare an annual statement of the profit and loss with proper the balance sheets from 2015 onwards as prescribed under the law and to direct CAG to conduct audit of the boardThe petition through advocate Samridhi Arora said that in response to the RTIs of May 11 May 24 and July 22 this year it has been clearly stated that the copy of balance sheet for the year 2015-16 and onward is under preparation