On July 24, the Comptroller and Auditor General tabled its report on Bihar’s finances for 2023-24. The report pointed to financial irregularities, including 49,649 pending utilisation certificates of Rs 70,877.61 crore as on March 31, 2024. https://thewire.in/government/irregularities-worth-rs-70877-61-crore-in-bihar-what-the-cag-report-says
The Report underlined: “These unadjusted amounts from departments such as Building Construction, Public Health Engineering, Irrigation, Road Construction (National Highway), Rural Works, Minor Irrigation, Local Area Engineering Organisation, and Road Construction were required to be adjusted and deposited to the treasury concerned.”
It identified the following as the top five defaulting departments: panchayati raj (Rs 28,154.10 crore), education (Rs 12,623.67 crore), urban development (Rs 11,065.50 crore), rural development (Rs 7,800.48 crore) and agriculture (Rs 2,107.63 crore). The amounts in the brackets are those they had failed to deposit to the treasury.
28/07/2025