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As per report in three years of audit 22 Meetings were to be held, but Meetings were held only. 2018 Place of Meetings of the Executive Committee 100 ) meetings were held only. Chartered Accountant for the year 2018-21 Also did not audit DMO. Expansion Due to the negligence of the responsible in nine district mineral establishments of Madhya Pradesh -19 from 2020-21 among 206 .21 Government has suffered a loss of crores. This has been revealed in the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG). For this, the report has asked to fix the responsibility of the officers.

REPORT OF THE COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL OF INDIA GOVERNMENT OF MADHYA PRADESH YEAR 2023’s report was presented in the Vidhan Sabha on Monday. It has been told in the report that the main mineral is available in districts of the state. Out of which nine districts with high realizations of District Mineral Foundations (DMFs) were screened. Administrative provision regarding regular conduct of meetings of Mandal and Executive Committees was not followed in these districts. List of mine affected areas and affected people and due payments made. Records of register of DMF funds were not maintained. Audit of accounts of DMF was not done regularly by Chartered Accountant. Apart from this, many errors were found. Such as less contribution to DFF fund by the lessees, non-recovery of interest on delayed payment. Funds lying idle in DMF, disproportionate expenditure on eligible activities and unutilized advance amount were also not recovered from the executing agencies.

As per the report, 100 meetings were to be held during the three years of the audit, but 18 Only meetings were held. 2018 Place of Meetings of the Executive Committee 100 ) meetings were held only. Chartered Accountant for the year 2018-21 has Also did not audit DMO. The register of dues and payments was not made in seven districts. During test check of records of nine District Mineral Offices and Directorate of Geology and Mining, Bhopal, it was revealed that the website developed as per rules was not created. Ignoring the archaeological heritage in the state
Comptroller and Auditor General of India has stated that the Directorate has not formulated any detailed policy or guidelines for enhancing the conservation of monuments. . The research and exploration activities of the Archaeological Department of Madhya Pradesh are decreasing. Monuments of Jabalpur, Gwalior and Indore regions were declared protected monuments but from No conservation work was done even once even after the notifications were issued. The directorate bought sign boards in August 2018 to be installed at the memorial in Jabalpur, which have not been installed till date. According to the report 100 notification to preserve 8 monuments which are more than 10 years old was not issued. People had encroached on 7 monuments. Those who continued their occupation even after the notification was issued, which the department could not remove, on the contrary, it de-notified them to be converted into heritage hotels without mentioning the justification for their conservation and after that they were not even converted into heritage hotels. ,