February 2025

Second CAG report - Critical services missing in many hospitals

Hospitals lacks ICU, blood banks, oxygen supply, mortuary and ambulance services

Out of 27 hospitals in the city: 14 lack ICU facilities, 16 do not have blood banks, oxygen supply is absent in 8 hospitals, 15 hospitals do not have a mortuary, 12 hospitals are operating without ambulance services.

Lacks power backups, check up tables and toilets

Many Mohalla clinics and AYUSH dispensary lack essential facilities like toilets, power backup, and check-up tables.

Shortage of nurses, paramedics, doctors

There are 21% shortage of nurses, 38% shortage of paramedics, and 50-96% shortage of doctors and nurses in some hospitals.
A total of 8,194 posts remained vacant in various departments and hospitals.
Trauma centers lack specialist doctors for emergency care.

Unused ICU beds at Rajiv Gandhi Hospital

Operation theatres, ICU beds, and private rooms remain unused at Rajiv Gandhi and Janakpuri Super Speciality Hospitals.

Funds remained unspent

Only Rs 582.84 crore of the Rs 787.91 crore allocated for Covid-19 response was used.
A total of Rs 30.52 crore meant for healthcare workers remained unspent, while Rs 83.14 crore allocated for essential drugs and PPE kits went unused.

Poor utilisation of maternal health funds

Fund utilisation for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (RMNCH) fell from 58.9% in 2016-17 to just 6.97% in 2019-20.
Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram (JSSK): Only 30% of pregnant women received benefits.

Forcing patients to lie on floors

Out of the promised 32,000 new hospital beds, only 1,357 (4.24 per cent) were added.
Some hospitals reported occupancy rates of 101 - 189%, forcing patients to lie on floors.

Project delays and costs overrun

Major hospital projects faced delays of 3 to 6 years, with cost overruns amounting to Rs 382.52 crore.
Indira Gandhi Hospital was delayed by 5 years and its cost overrun by ₹314.9 crore.

Purchased lands weren't put to use

15 acres of land worth ₹648.05 lakh purchased for hospitals between 2007-2015 lay unused for 15 years.

Prolonged waiting period

Patients at Lok Nayak Hospital wait 2 to 3 months for general surgeries and 6 to 8 months for burn and plastic surgeries.
CNBC (Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya) Hospital has a 12-month waiting period for paediatric surgeries due to non functioning of equipment.
India Today

Irregularities in CM house renovation at 6, Flag Staff road

Big change in preliminary and final costs

🔹 Preliminary Estimate: ₹7.91 Cr 🔹 Awarded Cost: ₹8.62 Cr (+13.21%) 🔹 Final Cost: ₹33.66 Cr (+342.31%)

"Urgent work"

Public money overspent by over 300% under the guise of "urgent work".

Liquor scam details

Key Findings:

Revenue loss: ₹2,026 Cr due to manipulation & illegal waivers
Expert panel ignored: Manish Sisodia’s GoM bypassed recommendations
No scrutiny of bidders: Even loss-making firms got licenses
Violations in licensing: No penalties imposed on defaulters
Illegal exemptions: ₹941 Cr lost due to undue benefits to select vendors
License fee waivers: ₹144 Cr loss despite clear contract terms
Security deposit mismanagement: ₹27 Cr loss due to incorrect collection
Zonal licensees & wholesalers nexus: Cartelization at the cost of Delhiites
Labs & quality checks not set up: Public health put at risk

Public Accounts Committee to take ACTION on CAG report.

PAC is likely to SUMMON Arvind Kejriwal & other former AAP ministers.

March 2025

Functioning of Delhi Transport Corporation - CAG report

2 buses in 2011 - 2012 to 2021 - 2022

From financial year 2011-12 to 2021-22, the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) inducted only two buses in the national capital.

Added 298 buses in 2022

The Corporation then went on to add another 298 buses in the period between March and November 2022.

Shrank in bus fleet

Correspondingly, the bus fleet shrank from 4,344 (2015-16) to 3,937 buses (2022-23).

Budget left unspent

Audit observed that Rs 236.82 crore was available for procurement of buses in 2015 and Rs 233.06 crore was available for this purpose as of March 2022.

Delhi HC direction in 2009

The Delhi High Court in September 2007 had directed the Delhi government to increase the city bus fleet to 11,000 buses by the end of March 2009.

The Delhi government then decided to come up with a new scheme under which DTC and Delhi Integrated Multi-Modal Transit System (DIMTS), which operates the cluster buses, were to operate 5,500 buses each.
Instead, the CAG found that 7,001 buses (3,762 DTC buses and 3,239 DIMTS buses) were available in Delhi as on 31 March, 2022.

Highlights of report

Lack of planning, poor financial management, and delay in increasing fares among others that led to financial losses.

Rise in liability

The DTC’s financial liability rose from Rs 28,263 crore in FY16 to Rs 65,274.3 crore in FY22.

Registered losses

DTC’s accumulated losses surged by over Rs 35,000 crore in just 6 years, climbing from Rs 25,299.87 crore in 2015-16 to Rs 60,741.03 crore in 2021-22.

E-buses

Between 2021 and 2023, the CAG found, DTC procured only 300 e-buses.

Over age buses

The DTC had “merely a fleet of 3,937 buses”, which included 1,770 overage buses, by 31 March 2023. The low-floor CNG buses were being operated by DTC beyond the prescribed “12 years useful life”.
The number of overage low floor buses in the Corporation fleet during 2018-23 increased from 0.13 percent (five buses in 2018-19) to 44.96 per cent (1,770 buses in 2022-23).
This also impacted the operational efficiency.

Delay in finalising bids

The Corporation’s inordinate delay in finalising the bids for procurement of electric buses under the Centre’s Fast Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles (FAME) I and II schemes.

Failing in availing central assisstance

The Corporation lost the opportunity of availing Central assistance of ₹ 49 crore under FAME-I Scheme due to lack of clarity about specification of buses and indecision. Print