New Delhi: Parliament`s Public Accounts Committee will begin examining from Monday the CAG report on the Adarsh housing society scam that had named two former Maharashtra Chief Ministers and top army officials for flouting norms. Officials from the Defence Ministry will brief the PAC, chaired by BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi, on the Adarsh Co-operative Housing Society in Mumbai.
The CAG, in its report tabled in Parliament on August 9, had found that rules were bent to benefit relatives of politicians, public servants and senior service officers, including former Army chiefs Gen Deepak Kapoor and N C Vij.
The government auditor had also named two former Chief Ministers Ashok Chavan and Sushilkumar Shinde as part of the process of giving clearances to the Society`s project. It came down heavily on concessions granted by the Maharashtra government.
The PAC will also begin examining the CAG report on the alleged irregularities in the conduct of the Commonwealth Games here in October last year. The CAG had dragged the PMO in the CWG mess by saying that Suresh Kalmadi, who is jail for alleged irregularities, was appointed as Organising Committee chief at its behest in 2004 despite "serious objections" from within government.
The auditor also blamed Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit`s "active involvement" for causing a loss of Rs 30 crore as it highlighted how wasteful expenditure worth several hundred crore of rupees was caused in conduct of the CWG through "irregularities", "favouritism" and "bias" in award of contracts for projects.
In its 743-page report, the CAG faulted the government for not setting up a "single point of authority and accountability."
PTI