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HARYANA VIDHAN SABHA PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE (2015–20116) (SEVENTY SECOND REPORT) REPORT ON THE REPORTS OF THE Comptroller and Auditor General of India For the year ended 31st March, 2010 (Civil) 31st March, 2011 (Civil and Revenue Receipts) (Presented to the House on 31st March, 2016) HARYANA VIDHAN SABHA SECRETARIAT, CHANDIGARH 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS Paragraphs Page(s) Composition of Public Accounts Committee (iii) Introduction (v) Report on the Reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India for the year ended (i) 31st March, 2010 (Civil) (ii) 31st March, 2011 (Civil) (iii) 31st March, 2011 (Revenue Receipts) Part-1 2009-2010 (Civil) 1. Health (Red Crose) 3-4 5-6 Part-1I 2010-2011 (Civil) 1. Higher Education 5-13 9-23 2. Forest 14-18 24-29 3. Commissioner Hisar Division 19-35 30-48 4. Irrigation 36-38 49-58 5. PWD (B&R) 39-40 59-63 6. Agriculture 41 64-66 7. Public Health Engineering 42-43 67-71 8. Town & Country Planning 44-46 72-77 9. Food and Supplies 47 78-80 10. Labour and Employment 48 81-86 11. Animal Husbandary and Dairying 49-62 87-106 Part-III 2010-2011 (Revenue Receipts) 1. Excise &Taxation 63-82 109-169 2. Transport 83-109 170-190 3. Revenue 110-115 191-198 4. Industries 116-119 199-206 5. Power 120 207-209 6. Mines & Geology 121 210 Appendix showing outstanding 211-254 Observations/recommendations of the Public Accounts Committee on which the Government is yet to take final decision. —————— (ii) (iii) COMPOSITION OF THE PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE CHAIPERSON 1. Shri Gian Chand Gupta, MLA. Chairperson MEMBERS 2. Shri Abhay Singh Chautala MLA Member 3. Shri Ranbir Singh Gangwa, MLA Member 4. Smt. Kiran Choudhry, MLA Member 5. Smt. Shakuntla Khatak, MLA Member 6. Shri Subhash Barala, MLA Member *7. Dr. Kamal Gupta, MLA Member 8. Shri Harvinder Kalyan, MLA Member 9. Shri Umesh Aggarwal, MLA Member **10. Dr. Pawan Saini, MLA Member SECRETARIAT 1. Shri Sumit Kumar, Principal Secretary 2. Dr. Purushottam Dutt, Under Secretary * Dr. Kamal Gupta, MLA, resigned from the membership of the Public Accounts Committee of Haryana Vidhan Sabha w.e.f. 24th July, 2015 vide this Secretariat notification No. PAC-1/2015/ 50, dated 27th July, 2015 on being appointed as the Chief Parliamentary Secretary. ** Dr. Pawan Saini, MLA, nominated as Member of the Public Accounts Committee in place of Dr. Kamal Gupta, MLA w.e.f. 4th August, 2015 vide this Office notification No. PAC-1/2015/63, dated 4th August, 2015. (iv) INTRODUCTION 1. I, the Chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee, having been authorized by the Committee in this behalf, present this Seventy second Report on the Reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India for the year ended 31st March, 2010 (Civil) & Reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India for the year ended 31st March, 2011 (Civil & Revenue Receipts) 2. The Reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India for the years ended 31st March, 2010 (Civil) were laid on the Table of the House on 4th March, 2011 and The Reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India for the years ended 31st March, 2011 (Civil & Revenue Receipts) were laid on the Table of the House on 23rd February, 2012 3. The Committee examined the Reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India for the year ended 31st March, 2010 (Civil) and Report for the year ended 31st March, 2011(Civil & Revenue Receipts) and also conducted the oral examination of the representatives of the concerned departments. 4. The Committee considered and approved this Report in its sitting held on 10th March, 2016. 5. A brief record of the proceedings of the meetings of the Committee has been kept in the Haryana Vidhan Sabha Secretariat. 6. I as Chairperson of the Committee place on record the appreciation for the Members of the Committee for their cooperation and valuable suggestions for the consideration of CAG Paras. 7. The Committee place on record their appreciation of the assistance rendered to them by the Principal Accountant General (Audit), Haryana and his officers. The Committee would like to express its thanks to the Principal Secretary to Government, Haryana, Finance Department and other officers of Finance Department and the representatives of the various departments who appeared for oral evidence before them for the co-operation in giving information to the Committee. 8. The Committee is also thankful to the Principal Secretary, Under Secretary and officials of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha for the whole hearted co-operation and assistance given by them to the Committee. CHANDIGARH GIAN CHAND GUPTA THE 10th March, 2016 CHAIRPERSON REPORT GENERAL 1. The Committee for the year 2015-2016 was nominated on 28th April, 2015 by the Hon’ble Speaker in pursuance of motion moved and passed by the Haryana Vidhan Sabha in its sitting held on 18th March, 2015, authorizing him to nominate the Members of the Committee on Public Accounts for the year 2015-2016. 2. The Committee held 61 meetings in all at Chandigarh and other places upto 10th March, 2016 till the finalization of the Report. ——————— 2 3 PART-I 2009-2010 (Civil) 4 5 HEALTH DEPARTMENT (Red Cross Socieity) [3] 2.5.1.3 Activities not covered under the objectives of Red Cross Society The Government decided (October 2000) to implement HARIS through the District Red Cross Societies (DRCS) with a view to streamline the system of registration and to provide facilities to the general public under one roof. Accordingly, the work of issue of registration certificates of vehicles and renewal of driving and conductor’s licences under the system was entrusted to DRCS and service charges for providing such services were fixed. It was noticed in audit that the work assigned to the DRCS was not provided in the constitution of the IRC and the service charges fixed were in addition to fees fixed by the Government for the same services through the Revenue Department. Thus, the decision of the Government to implement HARIS through the DRCS was not only against the aims and objections of the Red Cross Societies but also burdened the general public with extra charges. The department in its written reply stated as under :- As regards Para No. 2.5.1.3 regarding activities not under the objective of Red Cross Societies, the orders of the Hon’ble Punjab & Haryana High Court dated 02-09-2010 alongwith the inquiry report were forwarded vide this office letter No. Adm/Audit-180/ Common/2010/4965-85 dated 10-11-10 to all Deputy Commissioner-cum-President,, District Red Cross Branches in Haryana for compliance. The recommendations of the Inquiry Committee constituted by the Hon’ble High Court under CWP No. 18396 of 2007 are being complied with. Copy of as letter No. dated is enclosures. (Annexure “E”) The committee desired that the responsibility of the erring officers/officials involved in the remaining five districts be fixed and the action taken against them be intimated to the committee. The committee further desired the department to submit the detailed inquiry report about the amount spent on different items. The committee also desired that a detailed report about the sources of income, the total amount of income accrued as well as spent by the Red Cross Societies during the years 2013-2014 be submitted at the earliest. [4] 2.5.1.4 Outstanding loans and advances The Punjab Financial Rules, as applicable to Haryana, provide that loans and advances given to various institutions /projects and individuals should be recovered in a prescribed timeframe. It was noticed that 19 DRCSs advanced interest-free loans of ~ 2.97 crore (as detailed in Annexure 2.4) to various institutions/projects, schemes and individuals but no efforts to recover the - amounts were made although these were outstanding for periods ranging between one and 10 years. The payment of interest-free loans was against the provisions of the Financial Rules and non-recovery thereof would result in loss. Secretaries of five DRCS, (Rohtak, Bhiwani, Sirsa, Kamal and Faridabad), while admitting the facts stated (April-July 20 l0) that these loans and advances would be recovered shortly. Replies from the other DRCS were awaited (August 2010). The matter was referred to the Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary to Government of Haryana, Social Justice and Empowerment Department (District Red Cross Society, Haryana) in June 2010. Reply had not been received (August 2010). 6 The department in its written reply stated as under :- It was informed that as regards Para No. 2.5.1.4 regarding outstanding loan and advances, the District Red Cross Braches are complying with the recommendation of the Inquiry Committee constituted by the Hon’ble High Court under CWP No. 18396 of 2007 and the recovery is under process. The maximum loan and advances have been recovered. However, this office has also asked for present status report on the paras in question from the concerned. Dlstrict Red Cross Branches in Haryana vide this office letter No. Adm./2014/2106-47 dated 11-07-2014. Statements of 15 districts have been received. Total amount of advance was Rs. 2,86,80,123/- against which Rs. 1,65,48,956/- have been received and the balance amount Rs. 1,21,31,167/- is under process to be recovered. Amended and updated reply as under :- Now it is informed that the Statements of 19 districts have been received Total amount of advance given was Rs. 3,33,71,035.10 against which Rs. 2,01,10,526/- have been received and the balance amount Rs.