VIJAYAWADA, MONDAY, MAY 24, 2021; PAGES 12 `3 RNI No.APENG/2018/764698 Established 1864 Published From VIJAYAWADA DELHI LUCKNOW BHOPAL RAIPUR CHANDIGARH BHUBANESWAR RANCHI DEHRADUN HYDERABAD *LATE CITY VOL. 3 ISSUE 188 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable www.dailypioneer.com New research records 8 more P Markets to be guided P Cops stop Nikhil P species of NCT snakes from delivering essentials 5 by Corona developments, trends this week 8 amid lockdown 11 In brief CAG exposes irregularities in Man spots village on Govt: No objection to video call, reunites Commercial Taxes Department with kin after 13 yrs e was separated from his family ‘Krishnapatnam cure’ n Assessing authority ignored fraud, wilful negligence: CAG at the tender age of five, and H spent the next 13 years at a PNS n VIJAYAWADA SNV SUDHIR seven cases, there was under dec- children's home, some 1,700 km away n VIJAYAWADA laration of output tax either due to from his village here. Deepak Dehri, The Andhra Pradesh govern- fraud or wilful negligence. In one now 18, recently discovered that fate ment on Sunday said it prima A test check by the Comptroller case where under declaration was can also be kind, after images of facie has no objection to allow and Auditor General (CAG) of not wilful and tax due was more Massanjore Dam and its scenic Ayurvedic practitioner B India in Andhra Pradesh into VAT than 10 percent, penalty was pro- surroundings during a video call made Anandaiah to continue his tradi- assessment files of seven dealers posed at 10 percent instead of at 25 him instantly locate his long-lost place tional system, which people start- who had under declared output tax percent in the assessment order. of residence, and reunite with hisloved ed calling the 'Krishnapatnam and those claimed excess Input Tax “However, no penalty was levied by ones. A member of the Paharia medicine'. Credit (ITC), has established that the AA. Of the seven cases AAs primitive tribe of the state, Dehri lost However, the government will that it was done ‘wilfully’ with an have short levied penalty in three his father when he was just five and his mothersubsequently abandoned take a final call after the team of intent of fraud. not only do the irregularities per- cases and did not levy any penal- him, Officer-in-Charge of Massanjore experts from the state Ayush Intriguingly, despite the estab- sist; these also remain undetected ty in the remaining four cases. This police station Chandrashekhar department submit their report lishment of wilful negligence and until an audit is conducted again. had resulted in non-levy/ short levy Choubey told PTI. on it. fraud, the Assessing Authority There is a need for improvement of of penalty of Rs 3.18 crore over the "There doesn't seem to be any (AA) either short levied penalty or internal controls so that repetition of under-declared tax of Rs 3.81 objection to continuing the tradi- did not levy any penalty at all. such omissions can be avoided or detect- crore,” the report said. tional system that has been con- While this could be a tip of the ed and rectified in a timely manner”. Audit of commercial taxes Two years of Modi tinuing for the last many years. He iceberg regarding the happenings in Interestingly, after the expose by department was conducted Govt: Cong, NCP has been doing such traditional the state Commercial Taxes the CAG, AAs accepted the audit through a test check of the assess- systems for several years now. Department, the CAG also passed observation in six cases pertaining ment files, refund records and highlight failures There is no objection to contin- a stinging remark on the function- to five offices and issued penalty other related records in 37 out of he Congress and NCP in ue it without declaring it an Acute shortage in AP ing of the Department in its report orders and notices. 117 offices which is 31.62 percent Maharashtra on Sunday ayurvedic medicine," Principal on AP’s Revenue Sector for the year “During the test check of records of the department during 2018-19, T slammed the Narendra Secretary (Health) Anil Kumar ended March 2019 which was tabled of five Circles, Audit observed to gain assurance that the taxes Modi government as the latter gets set Singhal said. of Amphotericin-B in the state Legislature on May 20. from the VAT assessment files of were assessed, levied, collected to complete two years of its second He told a press conference India’s apex authority responsi- seven dealers that the AAs identi- and accounted for in accordance term on May 26. Senior Maharashtra here that there was a system to C PRADEEP KUMAR Black fungus patient. ble for external and internal audits fied cases of under declaration of with the relevant Acts, Codes and Congress leader Anant Gadgil said the validate it, through various tests, n VIJAYAWADA Dr Arja Srikanth, state nodal of the expenses of the national and output tax and excess claim of ITC Manuals, and the interests of the "Gujarat model of governance" on clinical trials and other proce- officer, says that the State gov- State governments — CAG of as per the assessment order,” government are safeguarded. which Modi came to power in 2014 dures, if it was a medicine. ‘Black fungus’ cases are on the ernment was yet to receive the India — said: “Such omissions are observed CAG in its report. 2 stood exposed amid the coronavirus "Without declaring it as an rise across the State during the medicine stocks from the pointed out in audit every year, but The report said that in six of the outbreak with even the High Court Ayurvedic medicine for Covid any past few days. Central government. “We are pulling up the BJP government on health supplement or traditional The spike in the Black fungus expecting the stocks to arrive on ineffectiveness of measures to tackle system depends on people's belief. cases is creating fear among the Monday. The patients are getting the outbreak. In Uttar Pradesh, There is no need to control or place patient and their relatives. The treatment at various Covid des- CYCLONE YAAS Petrol, diesel prices photographs of funerals on open restrictions if it has no harmful major concern among patients ignated hospitals,” Srikanth said. grounds and bodies being disposed of contents," Anil pointed out. is the acute shortage of He said that the Central gov- hiked again; petrol in rivers have made headlines. The so-called Krishnapatnam Amphotericin-B injection used ernment had allotted 1,650 vials Govt looks to avoid medicine being administered by to treat those suffering from to AP; the order has been placed inches closer to Anandaiah so far had no (nega- Black fungus infection. to purchase the same which tive) impact and all ingredients The State government has would be received on Monday. Rs 100/litre mark Haryana and Punjab being used in the preparation placed order with the Central He said that according to O2 supply disruption were certified to be safe. government; however the med- experts each patient needs 50 PNS n MUMBAI farmers to mark "Our teams are monitoring icine is yet to reach Andhra vials. Keeping this in view, the PNS n VIJAYAWADA icine, and other necessary infra- ‘Black Day’ In Delhi the persons and their contacts Pradesh for dispatch to various State government has included structure. The state-owned oil market- mid a statewide Covid lockdown, who used it to check if there are hospitals across the state. black fungus cases in the To mitigate the risk of any supply In this background ensuring ing companies (OMCs) on thousands of farmers today set any negative or positive effects. A Private hospitals are making Aarogyasri scheme. disruption of Liquid Medical uninterrupted LMO becomes crit- Sunday once again increased team from the Ayurvedic College attendants run from pillar to post The state government had Oxygen (LMO) in the wake of ical considering the fact that AP is fuel rates across the country, A off from Karnal, Haryana, for Delhi, where they plan to observe May in Tirupati, is also on the job. The to get Amphotericin-B injections decided to buy 15,000 vials Cyclone Yaas, the Andhra Pradesh largely dependent on supplies taking petrol and diesel at 26 as 'Black Day', marking six months data is being collected," the by giving a few documents per- from three companies as Black government has increased supplies from steel plants located in eastern new record highs. of their protest against three central Principal Secretary added. taining to the treatment. fungus cases are on the rise. from Odisha in the last two days India, in places like Angul, According to Indian Oil farm laws. Reports have also emerged It may be recalled that an The attendants coming from With the growing demand for using Oxygen Express trains to Kalinganagar and Rourkela. Any Corporation, petrol became of many from Sangrur, Punjab, leaving Ayurvedic practitioner B nearby towns are finding it an Amphotericin-B, the pharmacy maintain buffer stocks in all the disruption of supply from these costlier by up to 17 paise a for the national capital. Led by BKU Anandaiah has been distributing uphill task to get the life saving and the middle-men are secret- districts. places can cause severe distress in litre, and diesel soared by up leader Gurnam Singh Charuni, the his preparation to people for a injection in the grey market due ly selling the life saving injection Almost 100 metric tonnes (MT) AP. to 29 paise a litre.