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CAG flags gross lapses in OMBADC funds use

The New Indian Express Sambalpur

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April 08, 2025

THE Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has pointed out serious deficiencies in selection of need-based projects in priority sectors for tribal welfare leading to overlapping of schemes and unfruitful expenditure from Odisha Mineral Bearing Areas Development Corporation (OMBADC) funds.

- EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Bhubaneswar

The OMBADC, the special purpose vehicle (SPC) created for planning, selection and financial management of new water supply projects, did not assess the actual requirement when large amounts of central and state governments funds for rural water supply remained unutilised.

The OMBADC Board of Directors (BoD) in its February 2016 meeting approved ₹350.45 crore for drinking water supply in the 469 mining-affected villages without finalisation of the number of projects to be executed. The subsequent meetings of the BoD kept on changing the number of projects from 244 to 215 till August 2022, and project cost was revised from ₹350.45 crore to ₹626.76 crore.

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Taliban to build dam to limit water to Pak

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India on alert as polio cases rise in Pak, Afghan

DESPITE being officially certified as polio-free in 2014, India remains at risk of polio reinfection due to vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV), its proximity to endemic countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and potential gaps in immunity, experts said here on the occasion of World Polio Day on Friday.

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