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Money in the âpocketâ unspent for 10 years
Money in the âpocketâ unspent for 10 years
Looking unusual, out of the ordinary and even surprising that a whooping amount of Rs.44 crore is not spent (read utilized) for as long as 10 years by (the then state ) School Education Department in Jammu and Kashmir. Had it not been the austere audit conducted by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, the whooping amount of Rs. 44.13 crore purported to have been spent by the School Education Department for the specific noble purpose but not spent at all, it would have continued to remain undetected. When money spent is not rightly spent, that is one possibility but the competence and the authority to spend having been demonstrated even if not rightly but what about not knowing how to spend or choosing not to spend at all when the purpose, mode and the end use are distinctly and clearly spelt out. A flagship scheme of Union Ministry of Human Resources Development launc