The affidavit was filed in response to a BJP leader's plea seeking directions to the Centre and state governments to identify, detain and deport all illegal immigrants and infiltrators, including Bangladeshis and the Rohingya, within one year.
Courts, CAG and the Process of Conducting an Audit
When the courts ask the CAG to conduct an audit, and even give the national auditor a deadline, a can of legal worms are opened.
The CAG of India is the sole authority to carry out compliance, financial and performance audits. Photo: rupixen.com/Unsplash, (CC BY-SA)
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On December 1, 2020, the Calcutta high court issued an order directing the Comptroller and Auditor General of India to initiate an audit of Cyclone Amphan-related relief distribution.
This order by a division bench of Chief Justice Thottahil B. Radhakrishnan and Justice Arijit Banerjee was issued on five separate writ petitions making allegations about the discrepancies in the relief distribution.
PMC directs to limit credit boards to one
PMC directs to limit credit boards to one
ByVijay ChavanVijay Chavan / Updated: Jan 8, 2021, 06:00 IST
Random boards will be taken down by PMC’s anti-encroachment department (FILE PHOTO)
Legislators from all parties will have to put their names related to civic works on a single hoarding.
Following massive public outrage and the ensuing
signature campaign undertaken by
civic corporators to claim credit of
public works and private housing projects across the city, Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has finally taken cognisance of the complaints raised over the issue.
In a formal meeting held with the assistant commissioners of all 15 ward offices across the city, the additional municipal chief of PMC instructed them to allow only a single signboard at a place, adding that local corporators would be allowed to use their names, but all four names of the representatives must be placed on the same signboard. The official has barred leg
Citizens irked over politicos claiming credit of civic work
Citizens irked over politicos claiming credit of civic work
ByVijay ChavanVijay Chavan / Updated: Jan 6, 2021, 06:00 IST
Alleging that the signboards put up by
PMC corporators are misleading and total waste of
public funds, civil groups launch signature drives to oppose the trend.
With the municipal elections in Pune round the corner, aspiring candidates and sitting corporators seem to be wasting no time in wooing voters through
publicity campaigns in all possible manners. Fierce competition to put up ‘concept’ boards across the city is part of the drive. Thousands of such hoardings have come up, with politicos taking credit for both