Gujarat: RO plants where water is scarce, hostel 35 km from school, irregularities CAG found in border areas programme
Gujarat: RO plants where water is scarce, hostel 35 km from school, irregularities CAG found in border areas programme In its audit of the BADP for the period 2016-17 to 2021-22, CAG found that not a single village out of 185 border villages were saturated with basic amenities (archive) Constructing a 1.5 km road between villages that are 3.5 km apart, setting up RO plants where there is scarcity of water, approving tube wells where ground water is saline, building a hostel on private land 35 km away from the nearest school, and conducting public outreach programmes without allocation of specific funding: These are some of the major examples of irregularities in the Border Areas Development Programme (BADP) unearthed by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India whose report was tabled in the Gujarat Assembly Friday. In Gujarat, the BADP is implemented in seven border blocks of three districts — Banaskantha, Kutch and Patan. Overall, 328 works out of 958 works in 35 villages in...