Audit Reports

Freight is a profit making business segment of Indian Railways and is the backbone of railway revenues. Over the years the market share of Indian Railways has been consistently shrinking and railways was losing out to road sector. Achievement of...

Parliamentary Standing Committee (1997-98) in their Fourteenth Report on Modernisation and Capacity Utilisation of workshops in Indian Railways obsen'ed that working conditions in workshops posed hazards to the health of workers. The Committee...

Indian Railways (IR) is a prime mover in the transport sector of the nation. It is one of the largest railway systems in the world under a single management and is the single largest mover of freight in the country. Despite improvement in growth...

We conducted a performance audit in 40 selected Commissionerates, including examination of records relating to 239 assessees manufacturing automobiles or parts thereof, to seek assurance that the indirect tax administration is adequately placed to...

Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) had set a target for widening and up gradation of National Highways (NH) at 20 km per day. It was, however, noticed that NHAI's achievement during 2009-10 to 2012-13 ranged between 3.06 km and 17.81 km ...

Prosecution is the commencement of a criminal proceeding, where the Government exhibits before a Court of Law the formal charges against a person accused of an offense and seeks to impose on such person a suitable punishment and penalty. Thus, in...

A Special Economic Zone is a geographical region within a Nation-State in which a distinct legal frame work provides for more liberal economic policies and governance arrangements than prevail in the country at large. The geographical areas thus...

Inter state and intra state power transmission systems are inter connected and together constitute the grid. In 1984, a working group constituted by Government of India (GOI) for development of 'National Grid' recommended formation of a separate...

Airports Authority of India (AAI) had been the sole air traffic service provider in the country. Unprecedented increase in passenger and cargo traffic led to congestion in airports, particularly airports in metropolitan cities. Government decided to ...

At present, there are three regulated products, viz., High Speed Diesel (HSD), Superior Kerosene Oil (SKO) for Public Distribution System (PDS] and Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) for Domestic use. Motor Spirit (MS] or Petrol has been de-regulated...