The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) report for the year ended March 2020, which was presented in State Legislature on Wednesday flagged several discrepancies in Bihar’s health and other departments.
The report also said that the total revenue receipts of the Government of Bihar for the year 2019-20 amounted to ₹1,24,232.53 crore of which revenue raised by the State government from its own sources was ₹33,857.58 crore (27.25 %) and the share of receipts from the Government of India amounting to ₹90,374.95 crore (72.75%).
“There was a persistent shortage of doctors, nurses, paramedical staffs, and technicians in Bihar from 2014 till 2020 but the department did not publish the total vacancies to get them filled,” said the latest CAG report on Bihar.