JAMMU: The Jammu and Kashmir government spent over Rs 77 crore towards collection of land revenue in 2013-14, but the amount realised during the year was just about one-fourth at Rs 16 crore, CAG has said.
Besides, the state government registered 83 percent decline in collection of land taxes, a Press Trust of India report said.
“It may be seen that cost of collection of land revenue during 2013-14 was Rs 77.47 crore, which is 485 percent the amount of land revenue realised (Rs 15.96 crore),” said the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on State Finances for the year ended March 31, 2014.
The report said that the reason for decline in collection of land revenue during 2013-14 was not intimated by the state government.
The report added that the J and K government has been spending exorbitantly to realise the land revenue in the past as well as the expenditure incurred is several times the actual amount
realised.
“The land revenue realised in 2011-12 was at Rs 32.99 crore whereas the amount spent on collection was Rs 56.24 crore, which is 170.48 per cent more than the amount realised,” it said.
In 2012-13, the amount realised as land taxes was Rs 95.45 crore and the money spent to collect this amount was Rs 63.84 crore, 66.88 percent of the amount recovered.
According to the CAG report, the land revenue recovered in 2011 to 2014 was Rs 144.4 crore and the total amount spent on the recovery of this amount was Rs 197.55 crore, 136.9 percent of the total amount realised.
The government has not only spent a huge amount to realise the land revenue but the CAG also pulled up the government for a steep decline in collection of land revenue.
“It is noticeable that the land revenue collection has decreased from around Rs 96 crore in 2012-13 to less than Rs 16 crore in 2013-14 a decrease of 83.33 per cent. The reason for the decline has not been intimated,” it added.
CAG pulls up JK police
Jammu and Kashmir police has been pulled up by the CAG for its failure to implement Crime and Criminal Tracking Networking and Systems (CCTNS) and Common Integrated Police Application (CIPA) projects, which was to be completed by 2011-12, in every police stations of the state.
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), in its report for the year ended on March 31, 2014 expressed its dissatisfaction over the delay of several years, saying it has defeated the aim of computerisation and bringing in greater efficiency and transparency in various processes and functions at the police station level and improve service delivery to the citizens.
“Audit noticed that implementation of CIPA and CCTNS programmes in police stations, which were to be completed by 2011-12, was not satisfactory at all”, the report said, adding only 79 police stations have been covered under either of these programmes and as on March 2014, 116 police stations were yet to be covered.
It said, 56 police stations of four districts — 22 in Jammu, five in Udhampur, 19 in Srinagar and 10 in Baramulla — were covered under CCTNS while 23 police stations under CIPA.
CIPA was conceptualised in year 2004 as a part of the scheme of modernisation of state police forces. It’s aim was computerisation and to bring in greater efficiency and transparency in various processes and functions at police station level and improve service delivery to the citizens.
Under the programme, hardware and software for the project were to be provided to police stations, the CAG report said.
The CCTNS project was for creating an integrated system for enhancing the efficiency and effective policing at all the levels, especially at police station level, through adoption of principles of e-governance and creation of nation-wide network infrastructure for evolution of IT enable state of art, tracking system. It was launched during 11th five year plan period 2007-12.
CAG has strongly recommended for taking effective steps to meet the basic infrastructure and day-to-day running needs of police stations for effective service delivery. Agencies
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