The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has said that the budgetary assumptions of the government were not realistic during 2019-20 and control over the execution of monitoring of budget was inadequate.
The CAG, in its report tabled in the Assembly on Tuesday, said supplementary grants/appropriations were obtained without adequate justification and in some cases, despite the legislature not approving supplementary provision, expenditure was incurred. Savings were neither surrendered on time nor were explanations provided to the Accountant General for variations in expenditure.
“The State government has been persistently incurring excess expenditure over authorisation during the last few years which is a cause of concern,” the CAG said. While excess expenditure of ₹84,650 crore incurred during the last five years was yet to be regularised by the legislature, ₹ 2,084.03 crore was incurred during 2019-20 without budgetary provision “which undermines the authority of the State Legislature”.
