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Eighteen government departments, both central and state, owe the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) a staggering Rs 63,019 crore in unpaid water bills, government officials said on Friday. Mounting dues have contributed to a severe financial crisis at the city's water utility. Water Minister Parvesh Verma had earlier raised the matter of the financial crisis faced by the board due to pending payments up to Rs 1.42 lakh crore which includes commercial and domestic category consumers. Among the highest defaulters is the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) which owes Rs 26,147 crore, followed by the Railways which has a pending water bills amounting of Rs 21,530 crores. "The state health department owes Rs 6,684 crore and the Delhi Police has a pending bill of Rs 6,097 crore to DJB," a government document read. In total, state departments owe around Rs 33,295 crore and the central government departments have a pending bill of around Rs 29,723 crore, bringing the total to Rs 63,019 crore in water

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"The departments whose revenue receipt is less as per the target, the reasons for this should be studied deeply, where there is a need for improvement in the policy, that should be done," he added

All the states, union territories and 32 central government departments will integrate with the National Single Window System (NSWS) by December this year, through which companies can seek all approvals and clearances for their businesses, a top official said on Thursday. So far 19 states/UTs and 27 central government departments are already onboarded, including Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, and Karnataka, the Secretary in the department for promotion of industry and internal trade (DPIIT) Anurag Jain said here. He was speaking at a joint meeting of the India-Japan business cooperation committee meeting. The system is aimed at reducing duplicity of information submission to different ministries, reduce compliance burden, cut gestation period of projects, and promote ease of starting and doing business. NSWS enables the identification, applying and subsequent tracking of approvals for all integrated states and central departments. "Going ..

The Central Vigilance Commission has asked public sector banks, insurance companies and central government departments not to engage retired employees in investigating corruption cases. The assertion comes after it was noticed that some organisations were appointing retired employees as investigating officers, contrary to its existing nearly two-decade-old directive in this regard. Moreover, it is also important that the vigilance functionaries are made accountable and subjected to disciplinary action if they are found to have compromised confidentiality, objectivity or integrity, in the discharge of duties assigned to them, the commission said. The same is not possible in the case of retired officials as conduct and disciplinary rules do not apply to them for any post-retirement misconduct, it said in the latest order. The commission had in August 2000 directed that vigilance functionaries in any organisation shall be full-time employees and that a retired staffer should not be ..

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Union minister Jitendra Singh wrote to ministers of all the departments concerned