Provided all documents to CAG, will continue to cooperate:BSES

BSES today said it was "surprised" by the CAG's stand that it was not cooperating with the auditing body as per a Delhi High Court order, claiming that it had provided over 10,000 pages of documents.
"We are extremely surprised by the stand taken by CAG's counsel in front of the Delhi High Court. BSES discoms had made a detailed entry level presentation to senior CAG officials on February 13, 2014," a BSES spokesperson said.
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) and Delhi Government had yesterday told the Delhi High Court that three discoms -- Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd (TPDDL), and Anil Ambani promoted distribution utilities BSES Rajdhani and BSES Yamuna -- were violating its order by not cooperating with the auditing body.

They submitted before a bench of Acting Chief Justice B D Ahmed and Justice S Mridul that the discoms have not been providing documents sought by the CAG since they sought that their appeal against the single-judge order directing them to cooperate with the auditor be heard on March 7.
According to the BSES spokesperson, the in-depth presentation provided by them, besides describing the journey since 2002, dwelt on various measures to reduce AT&C losses, improve power supply, network upgradation, consumer satisfaction and major activities in their operational areas.
"They (CAG) were also informed about the savings in subsidy burden to the Delhi government due to additional revenue accrued on account of reduction in losses.

"In their confirmation, CAG informed that objective-wise requisitions will be issued to help the management in speedy production of records. It was accepted that data compilation is a time taking process as audit period is long. Voluminous documents in excess of 10,000 pages and considerable data in soft format has been already shared with the CAG team relating to the past 11 years," the spokesperson said in a statement.

He said the discoms had also submitted complete information on 65 queries raised by the auditing body.
"Additionally, the CAG team have also been taken through presentations and review of a variety of BSES operations including entire billing processes, IT Processes, SCADA, and the auditors have also been provided viewing rights on our entire data base," the spokesperson said.

"We are having cordial and regular meetings with the auditors and there is a regular flow of information to them. We have been and will continue to co-operate in the audit process," the spokesperson added.
The discoms had initially moved the high court against the January 7 decision of the AAP-led government ordering CAG audit, saying the top auditor is not empowered to scrutinise accounts of private companies.
The three private firms had come into being in 2002 when the then Delhi government decided to privatise power distribution.
Delhi discoms are a 51:49 per cent joint venture between private companies and the Delhi government.