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Bhubaneswar: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) annual report, which was tabled in the Odisha Assembly on Saturday, pointed out that 76% of anganwadi centres in the state had no toilet facilities.
“76% of the Anganawadi Centres had no toilet facilities. Infrastructure facilities at the Anganwadi Centres were not adequate even after four decades of implementation of the scheme. Monitoring and Supervision of the implementation of the scheme was also not adequate,” the CAG report said.
Despite the fact that the neonatal mortality rate (37 per thousand) of the state was the highest in the country, the GMCH had not conducted any death review to identify the reason behind the death of the infants during 2013-16. There were 16,651 deaths of neonatal and paediatric patients in the test-checked government medical colleges and hospitals and district headquarter hospitals during 2013-16, the report said.
The performance audit on ‘Special interventions for development of Left Wing Extremism (LWE) affected districts in the State’ showed that special intervention programmes in the areas of development, security and rights recognition were not implemented properly. Besides, there was mismatch in reporting the progress of distribution of titles as well as implementation of Forest Rights Act (FRA).
On modernisation of judicial infrastructure in the State, the CAG report observed, “Adequate quarters for judicial officers were not available while citizen-centric infrastructure remained absent in existing courts.”
The CAG report has also pointed out “Idle expenditure on incomplete jail building and also idle investment in drinking water project.”
The CAG report underlined the shortage of fire stations in the state pointing to the fact that there were only 660 of them as against a requirement of 840.
In the follow-up audit on ‘Micro Projects for development of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups’ (PTG), the CAG observed, “Though Government had accepted all the recommendations, none of the recommendations have been fully implemented, even after lapse of seven years. Shortage of manpower still persisted, which affected implementation of projects. Supervision and monitoring was not adequate to address the bottlenecks in implementation of various projects. Targeted number of projects under Income Generation Scheme, were not completed. Facilities like provision of road connectivity, drinking water, electricity, etc, were not created adequately. Besides, there were deficiencies in addressing malnutrition, healthcare services, education, etc.”
However, the CAG stated that the State’s Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) has risen 15.6% from Rs 3, 09,807 crore in 2014-15 to Rs 3, 32,329 crore in 2015-16.
The CAG report tabled in the House also highlighted that the revenue receipts of state government increased by 71% during 2011-16 period from Rs 40,267crore to Rs 68,941 crore in 2015-16.
Ms Kalinga