The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has rapped the Haryana government for various breaches in land transactions.
Rules, for instance, were changed to facilitate the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust to lease five-odd acres in Ullahwas village of Gurgaon district Gurgaon for 33 years, to open an eye hospital.
The report say the gram panchayat allowed the lease after a takeover notification, a breach of the law. The government changed the relevant rules on November 8, 2010, less than a month of the trust applying. The department granted a change of land use in violation of the development plan, as the area had been demarcated a residential area. Nor, before leasing its land, did the gram panchayat give a proper advertisement for calling applications, a legal compulsion.
Omkar Nath, principal accountant general (Haryana), said the CAG studies are sample ones, as it is not feasible to study each action of the state government.
If the sample reflects glaring mismanagement, the actual episodes might well be in multiples.
The report also highlighted an undue favour to real estate giant DLF, by selling it land worth Rs 2,142 crore for Rs 1,703 crore, due to wrong valuation by a government-appointed consultant.
Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said the CAG findings would be discussed by the Public Accounts Committee of the state legislative assembly.
