By Our Reporter
SHILLONG, Oct 1: Following the reporting of large-scale irregularities in various government departments by the CAG, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly is now gearing up to act on the observations.
PAC Chairman Charles Pyngrope said the Committee will take up the observations of the CAG with the various departments.
“We will start with an internal meeting of the PAC following which ample time would be given to the officers of the concerned departments to depose before the committee,” he said.
Even the Principal Accountant General will attend those meetings, he said.
According to Pyngrope, the departments would have to rectify the observations made by the CAG.
Recalling an instance in the past where the CAG had revealed that a project of the Fisheries department had been taken up by the Power department, he said the departments concerned had to rectify those errors.
He said that it is the duty of the PAC to inquire how the errors happened.
The CAG report, which was placed in the House during the autumn session, last month, revealed that the government wasted more than Rs 170 crore of public money in the last few years due to wrong planning and undue financial benefit to private companies.
The CAG also said that despite an advisory from the Union Cabinet Secretary, the decision of the MePDCL to award works under the Saubhagya scheme to contractors at their quoted rates resulted in an avoidable expenditure of Rs 156.14 crore.
