SHILLONG: Unfruitful expenditure of Rs 2 crore was incurred in a project executed by MeECL to augment fisheries pond and hatcheries under a scheme called the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY).
The Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly, Charles Pyngrope said that the MeECL is yet to hand over the project to the Fisheries Department asserting that the work executed by them was not up to the standard as desired by the Fisheries Department.
He said that the scheme aimed at augmenting production from the existing 30 lakh fingerlings per annum to 50 lakhs.
Pyngrope said, “It appears that although project was intended to enhance the fish production in the state, the expenditure resulted in the contrary. So we felt it was necessary to call the respective departments to find out what could be done and salvage to ensure that unfruitful expenditure would eventually be fruitful.”
Interestingly, member of the PAC committee, HM Shangpliang said that the Fisheries Department was not aware that the work was done by the MeECL and came to know only when 98 per cent of the work was almost done when they inspected the site.