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CAG slams Maharashtra government on land allotment
Tuesday April 17, 2012 11:25:45 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai: Several
Maharashtra politicians secured government land at throw away
prices for trusts linked to them and their relatives, said the
report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) tabled in the
state assembly Tuesday.
The report also lambasted the Maharashata government for favouring
the Lavasa Corporation stating that favouritism to Lavasa led to a
massive revenue loss running into crores.
The report, which did not name the politicians but only mentioned
the names of the trusts and organisations run by them, said that
land for educational purposes continued to be allotted in Mumbai
on basis of Government Resolutions which were 18 to 35 years old,
at cheap rates thereby jeopardising the revenue interests of the
government.
Land was also given on discounted prices to other educational
trusts run by top politicians and former chief ministers, the
report said.
The report said that the total receipts of the state during the
year 2010-11 were Rs.1,05,855.87 crore, of which the revenue
raised by the state government was Rs.83,240.19 crore and receipts
from the central government were Rs.22,615.68 crore.
"The revenue raised constituted 79 percent of the total net
receipts of the state," it said.
According to the CAG report, hill station type areas in the Pune
district were indentified without any transparency and the project
was driven by private interests rather than public interest.
The report also said that the Maharashtra Krishna Valley
Development Corporation Ltd.
(MKVDC) irregularly leased land in its possession admeasuring
141.15 hectare in Mulshi taluka to Lavasa Corporation Limited (LCL)
in August 2002 at a nominal lease rent of Rs 2.75 lakh per annum,
which they had acquired for irrigation purposes.
"Permission given to LCL for construction of bandharas on Mose
river valley was not only irregular but has adversely reduced
water availability to Pune City and adjoining areas at the cost of
public interest," the report said.
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