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In this editorial episode, Mr. Sujit Nair discusses the recent reports presented by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) that highlight various instances of irregularities within the central government. The CAG's findings reveal discrepancies in the implementation of the Ayushman Bharat scheme, including the use of dummy numbers and Aadhaar-related issues. Notably, the CAG uncovered that in Madhya Pradesh, a sum of ₹1.1 crore was disbursed to 403 'deceased' patients under the scheme. Similar irregularities were found under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY), with a total of Rs 6.9 crore paid for the treatment of patients who were already deceased.
Furthermore, the CAG's scrutiny exposed irregularities in the construction of the Dwarka Expressway, with costs exceeding the estimated amount by 14 times. The Centre's Bharatmala Pariyojana also drew concern from the CAG, as it highlighted the selection of ineligible bidders for the highways project. The CAG's report also pointed out undue benefits provided to contractors in the Ayodhya development project.
The CAG report raised red flags regarding the violation of toll rules, with the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) reportedly collecting Rs 154 crore from commuters in violation of the established regulations. The report further criticized the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for significant design flaws in an engine, leading to a loss of ₹159 crore.
Lastly, the CAG report unveiled that the central government diverted Rs 2.83 crore originally allocated for pension schemes to promote other initiatives.
#CAG #PMModi #BJP #AmitShah #Corruption #Congress #RahulGandhi #SoniaGandhi #NirmalaSitharaman #AnuragThakur #NitinGadkari #Election2024 #HWNews
https://linktr.ee/sujitnair
In this editorial episode, Mr. Sujit Nair discusses the recent reports presented by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) that highlight various instances of irregularities within the central government. The CAG's findings reveal discrepancies in the implementation of the Ayushman Bharat scheme, including the use of dummy numbers and Aadhaar-related issues. Notably, the CAG uncovered that in Madhya Pradesh, a sum of ₹1.1 crore was disbursed to 403 'deceased' patients under the scheme. Similar irregularities were found under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY), with a total of Rs 6.9 crore paid for the treatment of patients who were already deceased.
Furthermore, the CAG's scrutiny exposed irregularities in the construction of the Dwarka Expressway, with costs exceeding the estimated amount by 14 times. The Centre's Bharatmala Pariyojana also drew concern from the CAG, as it highlighted the selection of ineligible bidders for the highways project. The CAG's report also pointed out undue benefits provided to contractors in the Ayodhya development project.
The CAG report raised red flags regarding the violation of toll rules, with the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) reportedly collecting Rs 154 crore from commuters in violation of the established regulations. The report further criticized the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for significant design flaws in an engine, leading to a loss of ₹159 crore.
Lastly, the CAG report unveiled that the central government diverted Rs 2.83 crore originally allocated for pension schemes to promote other initiatives.
#CAG #PMModi #BJP #AmitShah #Corruption #Congress #RahulGandhi #SoniaGandhi #NirmalaSitharaman #AnuragThakur #NitinGadkari #Election2024 #HWNews
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00:00 Namaskar, welcome to another episode of editorial.
00:08 The CAG that is Comptroller Auditor General of India exposes dummy numbers and Aadhaar
00:15 irregularities.
00:16 The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has flagged off a lot of irregularities, not
00:24 just with Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana which I am going to talk to you about.
00:31 The CAG has flagged off a lot of irregularities.
00:36 Now the point is this was the same government where the Prime Minister said na kaunga na
00:41 khaane dunga which means neither will I be corrupt nor will I allow anybody to be corrupt.
00:48 Now all that seems to be going away.
00:53 The difference is possibly before 2014 every channel during the prime time would sit in
01:00 their studios and shout about corruption, shout about scams.
01:06 Those channels are quiet.
01:08 But does that mean that scam is over from this country?
01:13 Let's talk about that.
01:14 Let's get right into the show.
01:15 You know a frog does not feel the temperature.
01:25 It cannot feel temperature.
01:27 What I mean by that, you take a frog, put him into a pot and put some ice into that
01:33 water, the frog will still be comfortable because it doesn't feel the cold.
01:38 Take that same frog and boil that pot and boil the water.
01:43 The frog may boil in that boiling water but the frog will not try to jump out or try to
01:49 save his life or something because it doesn't feel the temperature.
01:52 It doesn't feel the heat.
01:54 But it boils to death.
01:57 You see somewhere down the line the condition we are living in today is somehow similar.
02:04 And I will tell you what I mean by that.
02:07 You see somehow at one point in time before 2014, you switch on any channel and that channel
02:15 man, that anchor in that channel would be shouting and howling about scams and 1 lakh
02:23 crore scam and 2 lakh crore scam and all of that.
02:27 So every countrymen, all of us started thinking that you know the whole country is about scams
02:32 baba, everything that we do is scam, every decision taken is corrupt.
02:39 That's what we started thinking.
02:41 And then came 2014 and a Prime Minister who said na khaunga na khaane dunga, I will not
02:48 be corrupt nor will I make people corrupt and then that man who used to shout in the
02:52 television started, he kept quiet, nothing.
02:55 He didn't open his mouth after that and a lot of people like him.
03:01 So all of a sudden we started believing, oh everything is gone, corruption is over, finish,
03:06 katham.
03:07 Our country is the most cleanest in the world.
03:09 No corruption, no irregularities whatsoever.
03:12 And if there is corruption, it's all Nehru's fault, all UPA's fault and all opposition
03:18 whatever parties fault.
03:21 Opposition party who have not joined Bharatiya Janata Party, all their fault.
03:24 But technically speaking, otherwise there is no corruption and there is no irregularities.
03:29 And we are all so happy about it.
03:31 Now you switch on the television and you don't find all these scams and all that.
03:35 All that is over.
03:36 Now everything is about how good things are and how beautiful things are and how progressive
03:40 they are and so on and so forth.
03:43 Now I am going to tell you about few things that has happened, few irregularities that
03:49 has happened and that has been put forward by the CAG, Comptroller Auditor General of
03:53 India.
03:54 And let me start with Ayushaman Bharat Scheme.
03:58 Ayushaman Bharat Scheme in a report by Quint, it reveals that around 7,50,000 beneficiaries
04:06 were associated with invalid mobile number, specifically the mobile number of 7,50,000
04:14 beneficiaries who got benefited by Ayushaman Bharat as one number, 7,50,000 people.
04:20 And you know what that number is?
04:21 That number is 9999999999999.
04:22 That's the number.
04:23 Wow.
04:24 And we say that na khaunga na khaane dunga.
04:33 Let us go next.
04:34 The CAG identified 4,761 registrations that were linked to only 7 Aadhar numbers indicating
04:44 potential irregularities.
04:46 4,761 registrations were between 7 Aadhar numbers.
04:54 And they took the benefit out of it.
04:56 Na khaunga na khaane dunga.
04:58 Anyway, additionally, the audit found instances of hospitals that were absent from the list
05:03 of facilities registered under the Public Health Insurance Scheme.
05:06 Hospital hi nahi tha.
05:08 The hospital didn't exist.
05:10 This is as far as Ayushaman Bharat Scheme is concerned.
05:14 I have got a lot to tell you today.
05:16 So I am going to go fast because most of these things are there on the net.
05:19 You can search for it.
05:20 I am going to go fast.
05:21 But I want to show you the numbers of irregularities that we are talking about.
05:25 Now let us talk about, according to CAG, it finds irregularities in Ayushaman Bharat Scheme
05:31 in MP says 1.1 crore paid to 403 dead people.
05:40 This was as recent as 10th August 2023.
05:45 So 1.1 crore rupees was given to 403 dead people.
05:49 Here people who are alive don't get medicines, but 403 dead people were given 1.1 crores.
05:56 According to the report, in the report, CAG named 24 state hospitals, including government
06:01 hospitals, which surprisingly showed much higher occupancy than the actual breadth cent.
06:08 Bed strength was X.
06:09 Occupancy was X plus 10.
06:12 This is what the CAG showed.
06:13 So, according to the report, in the report, the CM's Jan Aarogya Yojana, flagging irregularities
06:18 in the audit of Ayushaman Bharat, Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana, Health Insurance
06:23 Scheme, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India has said that 6.97 crores were paid
06:31 for the treatment of 3,446 patients who had previously been declared dead in the database.
06:39 Another story.
06:41 These people were dead in the database.
06:42 I am going to go fast because like I told you, I have got a lot of stories to tell you.
06:47 Okay, let's talk about CAG highlighting irregularities in construction of Dwarka Expressway, cost
06:55 exceeded 14 times.
06:58 The story is as latest as 14th August 2023, day before yesterday ka story hai.
07:03 Okay, I will tell you what the CAG said.
07:06 The Comptroller and Auditor General on Monday flagged the exceeding cost of Dwarka Express,
07:12 a project under the Centre's Bharat Mata Pariyojana Phase 1.
07:17 The top auditor of the government pointed out that the amount spent on the project has
07:22 exceeded the amount allocated by 14 times.
07:27 You see, this is nothing less than a scam and I tell you why.
07:32 A project, when it is designed, when it is planned, the project is planned by experts.
07:41 It is not planned by MHOs or management trainees who just come out of college and start planning
07:46 project.
07:47 It doesn't work that way.
07:48 People who have 30, 40, 50 years of experience sit and plan a project.
07:52 Now, if the project cost exceeds, either there has been flaw in executing the project or
08:00 there has been a situation created where the people who are to charge x has charged x plus
08:06 y.
08:09 That is how the cost of the projects go up.
08:12 Now, one time, one and a half time, two time, three time, bad, very bad.
08:18 But theek hai, you can still justify it by saying that inflation, cement prices went
08:23 up, there was a shortage of cement or shortage of that or shortage of this and so on and
08:28 so forth.
08:29 You can still try and justify it.
08:31 While I as a person, as a professional would never buy it, but theek hai, you can still
08:35 try and justify it.
08:37 Because normally when you project, you project taking all these into consideration, therefore
08:41 you keep a buffer always.
08:43 A professional does that.
08:44 But theek hai, chalo, let us assume, one, one and a half time, two times, you understand.
08:48 But 14 times, a project cost of Dwarkha Expressway exceeded by 14 times and nobody is even questioning
08:57 about it.
08:59 That man sitting in that prime time who shouts otherwise, doesn't even talk about this.
09:04 How fair is that?
09:07 And since we don't talk about it, everything is fine, isn't it?
09:11 Remember the frog, the well, the water boiling?
09:14 One doesn't feel it.
09:15 Humko kaha samastha hai?
09:18 That's the point I wanted to make.
09:19 Let me go further.
09:20 Okay, CAG, Red Flag Centre's Bharat Mata Pariyojana says that ineligible bidders selected
09:28 for highway project.
09:30 Controller and Auditor General has found fault with the implementation of phase one of the
09:36 centre's flagship Bharat Mata Pariyojana project, the highway development program, while reviewing
09:42 several projects awarded under the scheme.
09:45 This is exactly what I told you.
09:49 If the cost is going by 14 times, which means there is some irregularity as far as the vendor
09:55 management is concerned, there is some irregularities as far as the purchase is concerned.
10:00 This is how normally it is.
10:02 This is how normally it is.
10:04 And that is what the CAG has flagged.
10:08 Let's go further.
10:09 Let's talk more.
10:10 Okay, CAG says undue benefits given to contractors in Ayodhya development project.
10:17 News, 11th August, 2023.
10:19 This is all latest.
10:21 I am not talking about something which is old.
10:22 I am talking about latest.
10:23 Let us start with the first one.
10:25 The Controller and Auditor General of India has found irregularities, including undue
10:30 benefits to contractors in the implementation of Ayodhya development project in Uttar Pradesh
10:35 under the centre's Swadeshi Darshan scheme.
10:39 So here again, they have found in Ayodhya, they have found that there has been undue
10:47 benefits given to contractors.
10:49 The CAG has conducted a performance audit of the Swadeshi Darshan scheme from its inception,
10:55 that is, in January 2015 to March 2022.
10:59 It is from January 2015 to March 2022.
11:04 So unfortunately, this government cannot blame Nehru, neither can it blame UPA for this.
11:10 So this time around, they may have to answer this.
11:13 Of course, that is assuming somebody questions it.
11:15 And of course, that is assuming if somebody comes to answer it.
11:18 But coming back, according to the performance audit, which was tabled in Lok Sabha on Wednesday,
11:25 undue benefits of Rs 19.73 crores were made to contractors in six projects, circuits across
11:33 six states.
11:34 Now, let us go further.
11:35 Let us go, like I told you, I have got a lot of stories.
11:38 So I am going to go fast on this because I don't want to keep you waiting.
11:43 So let us go now.
11:44 Now let us go to another one.
11:46 Toll rules violated by NHAI, National Highway Authority of India, collected Rs 154 crores
11:53 from commuters, says CAG.
11:55 This is again story August 11, 2023.
11:59 The story goes as follows.
12:00 The federal auditors have revealed how non-implementation of toll rules by the National Highway Authority
12:07 of India not only caused losses to the highway authority, but in some cases, it has cost
12:13 the commuters dear.
12:14 In two instances, NHAI collected Rs 154 crores from the commuters in violation of toll rules,
12:21 the Comptroller and Auditor General of India said in a report tabled in Parliament on Thursday.
12:28 Rs 154 crores collected from people where they were not supposed to pay it.
12:35 You are the government.
12:36 You can break somebody's houses if you feel that you don't like their faces.
12:40 So you collect toll.
12:41 Bada kya hai?
12:42 Who is going to question?
12:44 Na khaunga, na khaane dunga baba.
12:46 Ok, now let me go further.
12:48 Like I said, lot of story to say.
12:50 CAG pulls up HAL.
12:51 Remember HAL?
12:52 HAL was the same that our honourable Prime Minister had spoken in the Parliament.
12:58 Amare Dibhansh ke helicopter banaliwali Sarkari company HAL. Ye HAL ko lekar ke kitni bhali buri bate inone kari thi?
13:17 Kya kuch nahi kaha gaya tha HAL ke liye aur iska duniya pe bahut mukshan karnewali bansa ka prayog kiya gaya tha?
13:26 Aur HAL tabaah ho gaya hai.
13:33 HAL khatam ho gaya hai.
13:36 Bharatiya Defence Industry khatam ho chukki hai.
13:42 Aisa na jaane kya kya kaha gaya tha HAL ke liye.
13:46 Wahan ke kamdaaron ko, wahan ke karmachariyon ko, uksane ki barpoor kosis ke bawujud bhi.
13:55 Aaj HAL desh ki aan baan shaan banke uthra ho.
14:02 HAL see how good, how fabulously they are doing.
14:07 HAL you know everybody criticise but see how HAL is doing.
14:09 This is the same HAL I will tell you the story.
14:11 CAG pulls up HAL for serious design lapses in engine that led to a loss of 159 crores.
14:19 The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has castigated leading state-owned Hindustan
14:25 Aeronautical Limited for serious lapses in design and development of aircraft engines
14:31 including absence of feasibility study and project report, ignoring technical review
14:36 by domain experts, use of substitute and non-original material and manufacturing that led to production
14:46 delay and a loss of 159.23 crores as on March 2022.
14:53 Why was the losses happened?
14:56 Losses happened because you didn't hire experts.
14:58 Losses happened because you used substandard products.
15:00 Losses happened because of delay.
15:02 So it was losses happened because you caused it.
15:06 That's what the CAG says.
15:08 This was the HAL that the Prime Minister spoke about.
15:11 And why does all this happen?
15:13 Why do you have bad vendors?
15:15 Why do you have substandard vendors?
15:17 Why do you have substandard materials?
15:19 Because somebody was happy using substandard material.
15:24 And that substandard material supplier made that somebody who purchased that substandard material happy.
15:29 This is the best way I can put it.
15:31 So, na khaunga, na khaane dunga.
15:35 So that's the story.
15:36 Let's go further.
15:37 Let's go further.
15:38 I've got lots.
15:39 I've got lots.
15:40 Centre diverted Rs 2.83 crores meant for pension schemes to publicise other initiatives.
15:48 Hear this carefully.
15:50 The Centre has diverted funds worth 2.83 crores allocated for several pension schemes to publicise their initiatives.
15:56 The Comptroller and Auditor General of India were found in his audit.
16:02 So, they used pension money and advertised our good Prime Minister, maybe some minister, all their faces, and they advertised those programmes.
16:15 And the pensioners, the pensioners, their money.
16:19 The pensioners who served our country all their lives, 60, 70 years, and those people's pension money was utilised.
16:27 So this is na khaunga, na khaane dunga.
16:30 This is the story.
16:31 Now, you see, the point that I want to make out of this editorial, there was corruption before 2014.
16:40 There is corruption today.
16:43 There was growth before 2014.
16:46 There is growth today.
16:49 Our GDP was growing before 2014.
16:52 Our GDP is growing today.
16:54 As we say, an individual's life, an Indian's life, didn't make much of a difference even with previous GDP growth, and it is not making much difference even with current GDP growth.
17:05 That also remains the same.
17:08 What we miss is, we miss Anna Hazare, who sat there in that Delhi Ramlila Maidan and was doing book artal and maun vrat and all that.
17:26 We heard what that maun vrat was.
17:28 Do watch that interview of mine.
17:30 I am attaching that interview below with Raju Parulekar, who was his political advisor.
17:36 So we will know what is book artal and what is maun vrat and all was.
17:40 So we miss that Anna Hazare.
17:43 Today, Anna Hazare is quiet.
17:45 He is sitting at home.
17:46 Nothing.
17:47 Everything is fine now.
17:48 Sab changa seat.
17:50 What we miss, like I told you right from the starting of my program, is that man sitting in that studio and shouting and howling and saying, this corruption, that scam, this scam, the other scam.
18:01 What we miss are bureaucrats who realize that possibly the UPA government's term is over.
18:08 So it is better that you go against UPA government in the final stages of their term and kind of project them as a villain so that they get better positions with the next government coming in and which a lot of people also got.
18:21 That we miss.
18:25 We miss journalists who have the guts to ask questions and we miss a government who are bothered to answer a journalist's question without raiding him for asking that question.
18:39 We miss that.
18:41 Other than that, everything is the same.
18:47 This is the point I wanted to make.
18:49 Till I see you next time, namaskar.
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