Implement CAG recommendations against guilty PWD officers: HC

The Allahabad High Court has asked the Uttar Pradesh government to implement CAG recommendations in respect of irregularities in PWD projects of construction, repairing and widening of roads in 17 districts of the state.
Passing this order on a PIL filed by Bhupendra Singh of Sambhal, the bench of Chief Justice D B Bhosale and Justice M K Gupta also directed the state chief secretary to take appropriate action against all those persons, responsible for causing huge financial loss to the state exchequer. The court disposed of the petition with these observations.
According to the petitioner, the CAG had submitted a report of the road construction, repairing and widening work in 17 districts including the state capital done by the Public Works Department from 2011 to 2016.

The counsel, appearing for the petitioner, told the bench that the CAG had audited contracts worth Rs 4857.60 crore but it was found that about 40,000 villages of the 17 districts were not connected with the main roads.
It was said that officers of the PWD had embezzled more than Rs 1,000 crore in awarding the contracts.
The CAG had also made recommendations to take action against the guilty officers and others involved in the case.