First Information Report (FIR) has been lodged against six principals of government schools, 13 principals/directors of private schools and one Assistant Commissioner of Tribal Development at Janjgir-Champa for fraudulent payment of pre-matric scholarship worth Rs 1.40 crore to students of 21 non-functional private schools, said Bijay Kumar Mohanty, Chief Accountant General (Audit), Raipur, Chhattisgarh on Thursday.
Releasing three reports of Comptroller and Auditor General of India on Thursday at a press conference here, Mohanty said that it was for the first time impact of audit is being released.
Similarly, recovery of water usage charges valued at Rs 20.94 crore was made. Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University also recovered the excess payments of transport allowance from employees, he said.
Proposal for disciplinary action against the then Executive Engineer, Ramanujganj was made for making fraudulent payment of Rs 17.24 lakh to a firm for supply of solar lights, Mohanty said.
“Investigation from Vigilance angle has also been recommended against non-production of records of appointments and promotions of staff of Chhattisgarh Vidhan Sabha Secretariat by the Deputy Secretary (Accounts),” he pointed out.
On National Rural Health Mission implementation, Mohanty said, “Shortage of staff mainly specialist doctors, medical officers, staff nurses, paramedics had affected delivery of health services by District Hospitals, Community Health Centres and Primary Health Centres.
If doctors are present, then shortages of medical equipment, drugs and consumables, laboratory services were hampered. Cases were referred to Medical colleges.”
“20 CHCs, 88 PHCs and 768 SHCs are running in private buildings which lacked basic infrastructure of hospital leading to deficiencies in services. In last five years within 48 hours of delivery, the women were being discharged,” Mohanty pointed out.
“Due to this, in last five years there has been no significant improvement in infant and maternal mortality rates and were far short of the NRHM goals,” he said.
On performance audit of implementation of National Food Security Mission (NFSM), Mohanty stated that Chhattisgarh government in last five years failed to implement the scheme in 13 districts and audit found that even after intervention, the production of farmers could not be raised and it was much lower than when compared to other districts. Farmers could not purchase hybrid/high yield variety seeds due to higher cost, he said.