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Assam still to submit 179 UCs of Rs 188 crore to Ministry of DoNER
Assam is yet to submit 179 UCs (Utilization Certificates) amounting to Rs 188.19 crore to the Ministry of DoNER (Development of North Eastern Region) in various projects.
DoNER PROJECTS
STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: Assam is yet to submit 179 UCs (Utilization Certificates) amounting to Rs 188.19 crore to the Ministry of DoNER (Development of North Eastern Region) in various projects.
DoNER funds infrastructure projects in the north-eastern region. After successful execution of the projects, the nodal departments of the States concerned submit utilization certificates to the DoNER.
In Assam the nodal department for DoNER projects is Transformation and Development (T&D) which was earlier known as P&D (Planning and Development). However, the T&D department doesn t execute the DoNER-funded projects itself. Departments like PWD (Public Welfare Department), Power Department, Health and Family Welfare Department etc
High pendency of Utilization Certificates
High pendency of Utilization Certificates
The purpose and the end use of money sanctioned and released by the Government for any project or work must not only be in the manner and intent for which sanctioned and released but the same needs to be certified and submitted too in a standard format to the concerned authorities. Known as ”Utilization Certificate” (UC) in accounting parlance and even ”end – use certificate” in Banking parlance , may also be countersigned or verified by Chartered Accountants but definitely perused by the auditors. In those projects where stage wise funds are released commensurate with the design and the pattern of project work , the second or the next instalment can ordinarily be released only when it was known whether the first or the last dose or instalment released was actually utilised for which it was sanctioned. In other words, it denotes that the next instalment of funds cannot be released unless
Edu, H&UD, Health deptts among major defaulters
Mohinder Verma
JAMMU, Apr 4: Expressing serious concern over non-submission of Utilization Certificates (UCs) within specified time-frame, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has asked the Jammu and Kashmir Government to consider ‘discontinuing’ grants to those departments and autonomous bodies which have high pendency of vital certificates as this grave violation of Financial Rules is fraught with the risk of misappropriation of funds and fraud.
The autonomous bodies/authorities not having sufficient resources of their own are assisted financially by the Government through release of Grant-in-Aid (GIA) to be spent on specific purposes.
Lackadaisical approach towards tourism projects
Lackadaisical approach towards tourism projects
The report on the development of tourism in Jammu and Kashmir submitted by the concerned Parliamentary Standing Committee must provide an opportunity of an insight into how and why delays are accepted as routine matters in completion of vital projects sanctioned under the centrally sponsored schemes. When schemes are tailored and designed as also funded by the Central Government, why should implementing part not be attended to with all the seriousness it deserved for which the Parliamentary Panel has virtually grilled the system in the Government of the Union Territory. Referring to the most vital sector of the economy – the tourism sector which if developed in time and projects completed in normal course had the potential of giving a fillip to vast opportunities of employment to the people and deserved , therefore, to be properly taken care of. Does it not look astonishing that even