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Bhubaneswar, Jan 8: The Accountant General of Orissa (AG), Amar Patnaik, has taken serious exception to the delay by the state government in furnishing it with details of the Action Taken Report (ATR) on issues relating to acquisition, development and allotment of land for residential and industrial purposes in the last four years.
In a letter to the state chief secretary, GC Pati, dated December 3, and copies of which were available Thursday, the AG said, “We have not received compliances and action taken notes in respect of the Paragraphs at serial No 4 and 6 of the CAG’s reports so far, though they are long overdue.”
“As per the instruction issued by the finance department dated December 14, 1993, to secretaries of all departments, detailed and full compliance to these reports was to be received by November 22, 2011, June 28, 2012, July 5, 2013 and September 22, 2014 respectively,” the AG said.
Patnaik said that in respect of allotment of government land by General Administration department in Bhubaneswar city for various purposes, featured in the CAG’s audit reports (C&SS) for the year 2011-12, only the status of the land in respect of 68 cases mentioned in the audit report was received from the director of estates and ex-officio additional secretary July 1, 2014. It requested therein to treat the same as compliance to the findings and recommendations in the CAG’s report, instead of submitting a full-fledged sub-para wise (C&AG’s observation) compliance note indicating the action taken on C&AG’s observations and recommendations.
“The action taken and compliance note on initiation of necessary remedial measures on those recommendations was extremely inadequate or has not even been mentioned in the aforementioned letter of the director of estate” the AG said in its letter.
