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The CAG, which had held up its audit during the Games,
on Friday sent its inspection officials to the Central Public
Works Department (CPWD) office located inside S P Mukherjee
Stadium in the national capital to check the accounts related
to the CWG projects.
The audit work for CWG is related to work payments,
contracts and leasing of sports equipment among others.
The CAG audit would look into how the balance between the
cost and quality has been maintained and whether there has
been any cost overrun.
"We have started with the CPWD office inside the S P
Mukherjee Stadium today (Friday). Now that the athletes have
vacated the venues, we will gradually start sending our
inspection officers to all the stadia," an official with the
auditing watchdog said.
The CAG had begun assessing the Games' expenditure in
August, but had to stop the audit related works in the last
week of September as they could not access the premises of the
CPWD.
The official said the CAG had to suspend the audit works
for over a fortnight since most of the CPWD offices are
located inside the venues which had the athletes till
Thursday.
The official said the biggest venue, the Jawaharlal
Nehru Stadium, is yet to be inspected by the CAG and the
government auditor would soon send its inspectors there.
The statutory auditor expects to submit the final report
to the government by January-end, to be presented in the
Budget session of Indian Parliament in February.
In August last year, the CAG had submitted an evaluation
report to the Prime Minister's Office and the sports ministry
pointing out the slow pace of progress of all the projects
connected with the Games.
Against the backdrop of attack on him from various
quarters over delays and charges of corruption ranging from
favouritism in award of contracts to expensive hiring of
training equipment, Kalmadi had the ignominy of being ignored
for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's reception to the medal
winning sportsmen.
Sports Minister M S Gill was seen on the lawns of the
Race Course Residence of the Prime Minister when he met the
performers this evening. PMO sources said Kalmadi was not
invited, nor was any other OC official. PTI JD
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