28,88,11,00,00,000
Public money KCR spent without authorisation
THIS COMES as yet another shock to people
who are still reeling from the humungous scam being unravelled in the The CAG said the excess expenditure vitiated the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation system of budgetary and scheme, possibly to the tune of over 1,00,000 crore, to the sheep scam to the metro scam, Dhar-ani scam, among others.
financial control and encouraged financial indiscipline in the management of public resources.
The former BRS government led by the then chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao did not get an excess expenditure of 2,88,811 crore, over and above allocation, pertaining to financial years 2014-15 to 2021-22, regularised, said India’s national auditor, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), in its recently released report.
Public money KCR spent without authorisation
This comes as yet another shock to people who are still reeling from the hum ungous scam being unravelled in the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation scheme, possibly to the tune of over 1,00,000 crore, to the sheep scam to the metro scam, Dharani scam, among others.
In a democracy, financial power vests in the House of Representatives – the Assembly of MLAs in the state and MPs at the Centre.
At the state level, the government has to get an approval from the majority of the MLAs assembled in the Legislative Assembly for the money it plans to spend.
This process is called Budget approval.
Public money KCR spent without authorisation
In its report, the CAG admonished the government under the BRS, saying, “The excess expensive ture is to be regularised after discussion in the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in the Legislature.
The Committee met five times May 2018, twice in August 2021, February 2022 and March 2022 to discuss 10 paragraphs per training to State Finance Audit Reports.
However, the issue of regularisation of expenditure incurred in excess of Legislative authorisa tion has not yet been taken up.
As per Appendix 3.2 of the CAG report on State
Finances Audit Report (Report 3 of 2023), the expenditure without legislative sanction was 303.65 crore in 2014-15, 5,880.79 crore in FY 2015-16, 21,161.59 crore in FY 2016-17, 28,171.27 crore in FY 2017-18, 29,133.69 crore in FY 2018- 19, 47,896.43 crore in FY 2019-20, 81,514.54 crore in FY 2020-21 and 75,053 crore in FY 2021-22.
The CAG has revealed data for the remaining term (FY 2022-23 and half of FY 2023-
24) of the Rao-led BRS regime.
Note : KCR spent less on welfare schemes
Public money KCR spent without authorisation
Originally Posted by Deccan Chronicle Paper
