Audit Reports

13 Short Payment of Gujarat, Rajasthan, 11 319.01 Rule 74 of SEZ Short/non Payment of Duty on Debonding West Bengal and Rules Duties on de-bonding Tamilnadu 14 Short Payment of Gujarat, Madhya 6 units 451.46 Rule 74 (1) Entry Tax and VAT short Entry Tax and VAT Pradesh and paid on de-bonding...........................

Report No. 21 of 2014 (Performance Audit) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Background 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...

3 Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Gujarat. 6 Report No. 21 of 2014 (Performance Audit) To verify whether: a) There exists adequate statutory provisions/rules, regulations, instructions/ notifications with regard to approval, creation, functioning and monitoring of SEZs; b)...........................

evaluation are tabulated below: State Name of the SEZ Deficiencies in monitoring Rajasthan RIICO Failure to file HPRs/QPRs, a mandatory requirement Tamilnadu J Matadee FTWZ Failure to file Chartered Engineer's Certificate on utilisation of Duty Free Goods, a mandatory requirement Diamond and...........................

Andhra Pradesh 22 1408.13 12/2006 Gujarat 13 925.92 09/2007 Karnataka 6 378.334 08/2006 Maharastra 88 8987.90 04/2007 Rajasthan 2 61.943 09/2003 Tamilnadu 23 1239.861 04/2007 West Bengal 13 953.629 08/2007 Total 167 13955.717 DoC in their reply stated (June 2014) that land in SEZs is to be...........................

(Para 5.1) Out of 20 transmission projects selected for Audit, only one project was completed within scheduled time and delay was above 20 months in nine projects. Main reasons for delays in execution of the above projects were delay in acquisition of land, delay in handing over site and...........................

(Para 5.1) Out of 20 transmission projects selected for Audit, only one project was completed within scheduled time and delay was above 20 months in nine projects. Main reasons for delays in execution of the above projects were delay in acquisition of land, delay in handing over site and...........................

as a weak link in the initial few years, as PGCIL was required to commission twenty elements in WR and SR before import of power by SR could be scheduled across the new Raichur-Sholapur link. Further, synchronous interconnection was achieved by PGCIL through a single circuit while the second...........................

Out of 20 projects selected for Audit, only one was completed within scheduled time and delay was above 20 months in nine projects. Time taken in acquisition of land, handing over site and providing approved drawings to contractors, release of advance to contractors and forest clearance...........................

” Further, to ensure completion of works as per schedule, each contract had a scheduled date of completion and a clause for levy of Liquidated Damages (LD) was incorporated in contracts. Besides contractual obligation, this also ensures that the intended benefits are made available to...........................

25 March 2007 26 December 2006 / January 2007 27 April/May 2007 28 Revised cost estimate was sanctioned in May 2010 but PIA claimed in January 2011 Performance Audit Report on Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana Box 5: Inconsistency in release of funds Case 1 - Early release REC,...........................

Out of 576 projects under implementation during X and XI Plans, 169 projects were test-checked covering the period from 2004-05 to 2011-12. Records were scrutinized at MOP, REC, State Governments, CPSEs, Districts, besides conducting a limited survey of villages and BPL beneficiary...........................

By then, the scheduled period of implementation, reckoning two years from the date of award, in respect of 151 projects had expired. Thus, the benefits of an integrated MIS for the scheme were available only after the expiry of X Plan. Deficiencies in capturing and updation of data in the MIS...........................

Further it is also stated, that the requirement of release of fund for DDG had arisen in 2011-12. ” MOP added (April 2013) that “DDG guidelines were issued on 12 January 2009 and amended guidelines issued on 5 January 2011, 17 March 2011 and 18 March 2011. In the guidelines there is no...........................

1,046.85 12.54 2009-10 13,292.46 5,201.30 2,405.18 7,606.48 57.22 1,680.70 12.64 2010-11 13,465.73 4,947.12 2,435.03 7,382.15 54.82 1,692.20 12.57 2011-12 12,926.33 4,306.30 2,464.60 6,770.90 52.38 1,545.94 11.96 2012-13 12,206.83 4,154.54 2,268.24 6,422.78 52.62 1,617.76 13.25 Total 60,239.69...........................

Further, a Socio-Economic Caste Census was conducted during the year 2011, which was yet to be finalized. Thus, the Ministry's reply indicated that the data on housing shortage utilized by it was outdated and was, thus not realistic. 3.2 Procedure for preparation of Permanent Waitlists and Annual...........................

Names of beneficiaries not found in waitlist- 687 cases, allotment against BPL numbers of other family - 158 cases, allotment of houses against other caste and category - 101 cases, duplicate allotment of houses - 16 cases, allotment of houses to government employee - 2 cases, allotment of house...........................

The beneficiaries under the IAY are scheduled castes/scheduled tribes, freed bonded labourers, minorities in the Below Poverty Line (BPL) category and other below poverty line non- scheduled castes/scheduled tribes rural households, widows and next-of-kin to defence personnel/paramilitary forces...........................

in five selected districts, out of 55,468 cases, only 1,639 cases (three per cent) were forwarded to banks for loan under DRI scheme during 2011-13. Out of these, loans were sanctioned in 552 cases only (one per cent). Overall percentage of the cases forwarded by JPs to banks for...........................

incentive was available to all BPL beneficiaries, however, audit noted that the state government chose to provide assistance to only members of scheduled tribe and other traditional forest dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006. State government did not explore the possibility of...........................