Auditor Finds Financial Mismanagement Worth Rs 108 Crore In Assam NRC

Lending more teeth to the Assam BJP's claims of alleged financial mismanagement in the ongoing process to update the National Register of Citizens or NRC by the former coordinator Prateek Hajela, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) in an interim report has found financial irregularities to the tune of Rs 108 crore.
The report comes after the Assam Public Works (APW), one of the original petitioners of the NRC in Assam, filed an FIR with the CBI against former Assam state NRC coordinator Prateek Hajela for alleged misappropriation of the NRC fund.
According to the copy of the interim report accessed by NDTV, around Rs 905.72 crore was released between 2013-14 and 2017-18. "An amount of Rs 52,07,99,238 was released as Mobilisation Advance (MA) to the System Integrator (SI), Wipro Ltd which led to the loss of interest amounting to Rs.9,49,36,632.
Non recovery of penalty led to undue benefit to Wipro and consequence loss to government exchequer amount to Rs 2.91 crore," the report observes.
"The sole bidder WIPRO was selected as System Integrator for development and maintenance of NRC Software Solution and setting up of 1500 NRC sewa kendras (NSKs). Increasing the NRC sewa Kendras from 1500 to 2500 after selection of the sole bidder was unjustified. The original offered bid value of Rs 196.65 crore was increased to 232.10 crore.

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