the Government just to examine a report of the Judicial Inquiry Commission on the financial mismanagement in the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council in 2009-10.
The report of the one-man Judicial Inquiry Commission headed by Justice (retd) PG Agarwal Commission was submitted to the Government on December 29 last year, but the Government is yet to make it public even after getting the opportunity to table the report during the March and October Assembly sessions.
Though the deadline to complete the probe report was three months, it took two years for the Commission to complete the report after the Commission was notified on October 19, 2010.
With the district council elections due early next year, the State Government has hushed up the report of the Commission on the anomalies in the functioning of Garo Hills Autonomous District Council when Congress leader Purno K Sangma was the Chief Executive Member.
Recently, the District Council Affairs Minister HDR Lyngdoh said that the report is still being examined which means that the Government is taking 10 months to go through the report.
The expenditure incurred for the inquiry was Rs 22,41,206, but the report is still gathering dust with the District Council Affairs department.
The probe report relates to the financial irregularities and illegal appointments in the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council (GHADC).
Earlier, the Government delayed the release of the report due to the Assembly elections fearing that this will affect the poll prospects of the party.
It was after the then Deputy Commissioner of West Garo Hills, Sanjay Goyal, carried out an audit report and found out financial irregularities including illegal appointments in the Council in 2009-10 that the Government decided to hand over the probe into the GHADC scam to the Judicial Inquiry Commission.
The Deputy Commissioner in his investigation had found that the officials and elected members of the GHADC had misused government funds worth several crores of rupees meant for implementation of various schemes.
The terms of reference for the Judicial Inquiry Commission were to probe the facts and circumstances leading to the financial instability in GHADC and also to examine financial irregularities and misappropriation of funds committed by GHADC.
The task of the Commission was also to examine the administration of laws, rules and regulation made by GHADC with special reference to the alleged cancellation of appointment in respect of Laskars and village court staff without reasons and illegal appointment made in various departments of the GHADC.
The ways and means to revamp the GHADC administration was another area of focus of the Commission.