CAG: Irregularity in tech body working
The Comptroller-and-Auditor-General of India has found gross irregularities in recruitment and plundering of public money by the top bosses of the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO). The CAG officials have stated that they have noticed misdeeds of NTRO top officials, the CAG further pointed out that even after getting its
own building for its headquarters in October 2007, the senior NTRO officials maintained the old rented office as their guesthouse for around two years. Meanwhile, the CAG in a letter dispatched to the NTRO has asked for an explanation on the CAG’s observations.
The recent CAG report further stated, “The organisation established in 2004 was working from a rented bungalow at Hauz Khaz at a rent of `6.70 lakhs per month. Though the headquarters was shifted to its own building near the JNU campus, top officials maintained the old bungalow as their guesthouses till May 2009, though they have separate accommodation facility in the capital.” Indicting former NTRO chairman K.V.S.S. Prasad Rao and adviser M.S. Vijayaraghavan for misdeeds, the CAG found that the former had transferred around `45 lakhs to a Chennai-based PPP agency, where the latter is holding the post of executive director simultaneously.
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