Cong questions switch of CAG officers who did audit of Dwarka Expressway, Ayushman Bharat schemes
By PTI
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Wednesday accused the federal government of intimidating officers of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), who had uncovered “corruption” in varied schemes, and demanded that their switch orders be revoked.
Citing a media report on the switch of the officers, Congress basic secretary Jairam Ramesh charged that it’s the modus operandi of the Modi authorities to threaten and take away anybody who “exposes” them.
“We demand that these transfer orders should be cancelled immediately, the officers return to the CAG and action must be taken on these mega scams relating to Dwarka Expressway, Bharatmala and Ayushman Bharat,” he mentioned in a submit on X.
The Congress chief charged that “the Modi government operates mafia style under a cloak of silence and intimidation. If anyone exposes its modus operandi of corruption, they are threatened or removed”.
The newest victims are three officers of the CAG, who uncovered “massive scams” in authorities schemes in a report tabled in the course of the Monsoon Session of Parliament, he alleged.
The CAG report confirmed scams throughout infrastructure and social schemes.
It documented 1400 per cent price inflation and tendering irregularities within the Dwarka Expressway, along with a diversion of Rs 3,600 crore from highways tasks, defective bidding practices, and 60 per cent price inflation of the Bharatmala scheme, he claimed.
“Not only that, an audit of the Ayushman Bharat scheme showed lakhs of claims made to dead patients and at least 7.5 lakh beneficiaries linked to a single mobile number,” he additionally claimed.
Ramesh charged that the three CAG officers in control of reporting on the Ayushman Bharat and Dwarka Expressway scams have been transferred “to hide the blatant corruption in the Modi Government, despite the fact that the CAG is supposed to be an independent body”.
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Wednesday accused the federal government of intimidating officers of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), who had uncovered “corruption” in varied schemes, and demanded that their switch orders be revoked.
Citing a media report on the switch of the officers, Congress basic secretary Jairam Ramesh charged that it’s the modus operandi of the Modi authorities to threaten and take away anybody who “exposes” them.
“We demand that these transfer orders should be cancelled immediately, the officers return to the CAG and action must be taken on these mega scams relating to Dwarka Expressway, Bharatmala and Ayushman Bharat,” he mentioned in a submit on X.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
The Congress chief charged that “the Modi government operates mafia style under a cloak of silence and intimidation. If anyone exposes its modus operandi of corruption, they are threatened or removed”.
The newest victims are three officers of the CAG, who uncovered “massive scams” in authorities schemes in a report tabled in the course of the Monsoon Session of Parliament, he alleged.
The CAG report confirmed scams throughout infrastructure and social schemes.
It documented 1400 per cent price inflation and tendering irregularities within the Dwarka Expressway, along with a diversion of Rs 3,600 crore from highways tasks, defective bidding practices, and 60 per cent price inflation of the Bharatmala scheme, he claimed.
“Not only that, an audit of the Ayushman Bharat scheme showed lakhs of claims made to dead patients and at least 7.5 lakh beneficiaries linked to a single mobile number,” he additionally claimed.
Ramesh charged that the three CAG officers in control of reporting on the Ayushman Bharat and Dwarka Expressway scams have been transferred “to hide the blatant corruption in the Modi Government, despite the fact that the CAG is supposed to be an independent body”.
