CAG to submit Youth Games audit to govt

Dec 13, 2010 - Syed Asim Ali |

New Delhi

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) will now also submit its audit report in the Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) held in 2008 to the government. Sources in CAG have pointed out that the investigation has revealed financial irregularities in CYG too.
However, the CAG officials have maintained that it would submit CWG report, which is expected to be completed by this month end, before handing over the report.
Sources have pointed out that the submission of CYG audit has only take its pace after the state sports directorate admitted that the audited report of expenditure for the CYG held in Pune in October 2008, was not ready even after two years of the event.
Deputy director of sports, M.N. Thosare, has earlier in a letter to Right to Information (RTI) activist Vijay Kumbhar accepted that the audit report of the expenditure is not ready and added that the audit team of the comptroller and auditor general (CAG is also auditing the expenditure for the Youth Games in Pune.
The Pune bench state information commissioner (SIC), Vijay Kuvalekar, had on November 11 ordered the state sports directorate to publish all documents related to the expenditure of `425 crore for sports infrastructure of the CYG. Mr Kuvalekar had passed the order during a hearing of a petition filed by Mr Kumbhar, who had complained against the sports directorate for not publishing all documents related to organisation of the CYG in Pune under Section 4 of RTI Act, 2005.
During the hearing, Mr M.N. Thosare had told the bench that the directorate was responsible for providing infrastructure for the CYG and it had received `425.5 crores for the purpose.
The officials added that the audit report is likely to be completed in December.

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