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  CAG flags Rs 195 crore liquor revenue loss in Rajasthan excise department, calls for strict recovery

  Rajasthan | September 22, 2025 11:20 IST

  The CAG's findings reveal large-scale irregularities in Rajasthan's excise department with revenue losses mounting to Rs 195 crore. The report strongly recommends strict recovery measures and tighter compliance with excise laws to prevent such lapses in the future.

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  Where did Bihar government spend Rs 70,000 crore? CAG flags irregularities, cites embezzlement risk

  India | July 25, 2025 16:13 IST

  The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has flagged serious financial irregularities in Bihar, revealing that the state government has not submitted utilisation certificates (UCs) for Rs 70,877.61 crore as of March 31, 2024.

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  CAG report says new Delhi liquor policy led to the revenue loss of over Rs 2,000 crore: Highlights

  Delhi | February 25, 2025 13:16 IST

  The CAG report also flagged violations in the process of issuing licences and pointed out that recommendations of an expert panel, formed to suggest changes for the formation of the now scrapped policy, were ignored by then deputy chief minister and excise minister Manish Sisodia.

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  Delhi Assembly's 1st session to begin today, 14 pending CAG reports to be tabled | Here are details

  Delhi | February 24, 2025 7:00 IST

  Delhi Assembly session 2024: The new members of the House will take oath before the pro-tem speaker. Each member of the House has been provisionally allotted a seat under Rule 5 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Assembly said the bulletin.

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  K Sanjay Murthy to be next Comptroller and Auditor General of India, who is he?

  India | November 18, 2024 23:01 IST

  President Droupadi Murmu, exercising her power under Article 148 of the Constitution, appointed K Sanjay Murthi as the new CAG. Murthy will succeed Girish Chandra Murmu, who had assumed charge of the office in 2020.

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  Mizoram govt incurred Rs 4.88 crore wasteful expenditure due to negligence: CAG

  Mizoram | August 31, 2023 10:11 IST

  Chief Minister Zoramthanga tabled the CAG report in the recently concluded Assembly, in which it said that the construction of the Darlak-Sihthiang road was undertaken under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) despite the village being already connected.

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  CM residence reconstruction cost: CAG investigation against Arvind Kejriwal ordered

  Delhi | June 28, 2023 6:23 IST

  On March 24, the LG wrote a letter to the Union Home Ministry in this regard. On the basis of this letter, the Ministry of Home Affairs gave instructions for CAG audit.

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  Parliamentary panel calls CAG officials over delay in tabling audited accounts of departments in LS

  India | April 03, 2022 19:20 IST

  The Parliamentary Committee on Papers Laid on the Table of Lok Sabha, chaired by BSP Ritesh Pandey, is convening a briefing session with the representatives of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on Monday, according to a notice issued by the Lok Sabha Secretariat.

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  Centre 'betrayed' states by transferring compensation cess to CFI, alleges Siddaramaiah

  India | September 26, 2020 14:22 IST

  Citing the Comptroller and Auditor General's recent report, Siddaramaiah in a tweet charged the central government with betraying the states' trust on federalism and asked Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa to initiate legal proceedings for the violation.

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  Dysfunctional CCTV cameras, outdated radio communication among CAG red flags on Delhi Police

  India | September 24, 2020 7:58 IST

  The report also flagged the sharp rise of 275 per cent in the crimes registered in Delhi under the Indian Penal Code in 2019 as compared to 2013. It, however, said the Delhi Police attributed this sharp increase to comprehensive reporting of crimes and the facility to lodge e-FIRs.

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  GC Murmu takes oath as Comptroller and Auditor general of India

  India | August 08, 2020 11:55 IST

  Girish Chandra Murmu took oath as the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India on Saturday. President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others. 

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  Girish Chandra Murmu appointed new CAG of India

  India | August 06, 2020 23:13 IST

  Girish Chandra Murmu, who resigned as the Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor yesterday, has been appointed as the new Comptroller and Auditor General of India.

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  Wheat worth Rs 607 crore damaged in Punjab: CAG

  India | March 02, 2020 13:34 IST

  Inadequate and improper wheat storage and stocking fresh one with the infested in Punjab resulted in loss of wheat of Rs 607.57 crore in four years,the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has said

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  Army received banned anti-aircraft ammunition worth Rs 39 crore from OFB in Aug 2015: CAG

  India | February 11, 2020 23:55 IST

  Indian Army "received" banned anti-aircraft ammunition worth around Rs 39 crore from the Ordinance Factory Board (OFB) in August 2015, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) said in its latest report that was tabled in Lok Sabha. 

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  Budgetary constraints affected Siachen troop clothing procurements: CAG

  India | February 04, 2020 23:04 IST

  Budgetary constraints have been blamed for the failure to procure high-altitude clothing required by soldiers posted in Siachen, according to a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report tabled in the Lok Sabha.

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  Delay in setting up defence varsity raises cost by 914 per cent: CAG

  India | December 13, 2019 17:34 IST

  There delay in setting up of Indian National Defence University (INDU) in Haryana's Gurugram will cost the exchequer an increase of 914 per cent in cost, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) finds in its report on Union Government (Defence Services)-Army, sources in Rajya Sabha said on Friday.

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  Kejriwal spent Rs 1,000 crore in 30 days: CAG raises questions over Delhi CM's sudden spending spree

  India | December 03, 2019 20:52 IST

  The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has raised questions over the Arvind Kejriwal government in Delhi spending more than Rs 1,000 crore in a gap of 30 days. It said the spending money was against the financial rules. The CAG has pulled up the government for dumping funds meant for several items into an account for the entire year and then spending suddenly while approaching the end of the financial year.

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  PM Modi asks CAG to develop innovative methods to check frauds in government departments

  India | November 21, 2019 20:26 IST

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday asked auditor CAG to develop technical tools to check frauds in government departments and play a role in making India a USD 5 trillion economy.  

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  Man held for duping CAG official of Rs 2 lakh by fraudulent banking

  Crime | September 13, 2019 22:54 IST

  A 24-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly duping a CAG official of Rs two lakh by making fraudulent transactions from his bank account, police said on Friday. Accused Pradeep Mandal, a Jharkhand native, was nabbed by the police from Shastri Park metro station, they said.  

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  CAG flags irregularities in UP excise department

  India | July 21, 2019 11:37 IST

  Among the major findings, the report points out are irregular creation of special zones (Meerut) as per the excise policy 2009-2010 to check to smuggle of liquor into the state from neighbouring states which despite not having the desired impact continued over next nine years. The report said licences for retail shops were renewed continuously for nine years (2009-2018) without resorting to any form of open tendering on an annual basis eliminating any possibility of competition in production and sale of liquor at reasonable rates.