Government auditor CAG has pulled up the Directorate of Estates for "perpetual" shortage of accommodation for government employees in Delhi and said the department did not have an accurate record of the available housing stock.
It also pointed out that allottees unauthorisedly occupied over 1,000 houses of Type 1 to 4 for more than two years.
In 2014, there was a shortage of 36,577 houses as against the demand of 97,984. The augmentation of housing stock in various pools has been done in an "inequitable manner", the Comptroller and Auditor General of India said in its report.
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The auditor also found discrepancies in the housing stock figures. It said that according to DoE's website -- www.Estates.Nic.In -- there were 64,239 houses on May 8, 2013, whereas eawas.Nic.In showed a housing stock of 63,975 on May 10, 2013.
"There has been a perpetual shortage of accommodation for government servants in Delhi. DoE did not have an accurate record of the housing stock available with it.
"It was seen that as of October 2015, 1,032 houses of type 1 to type 4 had been unauthorisedly occupied by allotees of which 107 of Type 1, 111 of Type 2, 44 of Type 3 and 67 of Type 4 had been unauthorisedly occupied for more than two years," CAG said.
It found that licence fee collection and monitoring system was not fully functional resulting in DoE not being able to monitor the receipt of the licence fee.
Databases of DoE and CPWD are not interlinked, leading to delays in the reflection of vacancy positions of houses which are declared as unsafe or dangerous, it said.
"The quality of data in the Government Accommodation Management System database was also found to be poor," CAG said.
