The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has identified irregularities in the allocation of projects for highway development funded by the central government. In its assessment of the first phase of the Bharatmala Pariyojana, the auditor has also uncovered deficiencies in the evaluation and approval processes submitted to the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA). Moreover, the report has highlighted substantial cost overruns in several high-cost Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) projects, such as the construction of the Dwarka Expressway and Delhi-Vadodara Expressway.
Of particular concern is the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI)'s decision to opt for an elevated carriageway for the Haryana section of the expressway. This choice has resulted in a significant increase in construction costs, raising them from the originally sanctioned Rs 18.2 crore per kilometer to a staggering Rs 251 crore per kilometer, as indicated in the report.
It's worth noting that the NHAI is responsible for constructing the mentioned expressway as part of the Bharatmala program, and the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) had initially approved an average construction cost of Rs 18.2 crore per kilometer for the overall Bharatmala program.
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Of particular concern is the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI)'s decision to opt for an elevated carriageway for the Haryana section of the expressway. This choice has resulted in a significant increase in construction costs, raising them from the originally sanctioned Rs 18.2 crore per kilometer to a staggering Rs 251 crore per kilometer, as indicated in the report.
It's worth noting that the NHAI is responsible for constructing the mentioned expressway as part of the Bharatmala program, and the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) had initially approved an average construction cost of Rs 18.2 crore per kilometer for the overall Bharatmala program.
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00:00 Namaskar, friends.
00:02 Navratri festival is going on.
00:06 It is the holy week.
00:09 And the season of Ramlila is also going on.
00:13 Ramlila Maidan is a little far from here.
00:17 Ten years ago,
00:20 in Ramlila Maidan,
00:25 a lot of thugs gathered on the stage.
00:30 And,
00:34 they made the whole country
00:37 a puppet
00:39 and trapped them.
00:42 The media
00:46 gave them coverage for 24 hours.
00:51 Nation with Anna, I remember the headlines were very big.
00:55 Like a big people's movement was formed.
01:00 A movement for freedom was formed.
01:02 And what was the basis of that?
01:04 The basis of that was CAG reports.
01:07 Tathakathit, 2G, coal.
01:12 All those allegations,
01:17 were proved baseless in the last 10 years.
01:21 But,
01:23 the thugs who gathered in Ramlila Maidan,
01:29 some of them were not thugs,
01:31 who regret going to Ramlila Maidan.
01:34 Their motive was one.
01:37 Their motive was to somehow
01:42 defame the clean image of Manmohan Singh,
01:46 to defame the UPA government,
01:50 and the biggest thug named Vinod Rai,
01:54 whom I call,
01:56 based on the reports written by him,
02:00 this whole drama took place.
02:02 Now, come to October 2023.
02:11 This same CAG,
02:13 is able to get out some reports with great difficulty.
02:18 In 2015,
02:22 55 reports were released.
02:25 In 2020, 14 reports were released.
02:29 See, what is the condition of CAG.
02:32 In 2023, some shocking reports were revealed.
02:41 Bharat Mala Project,
02:43 Ayushmaan Yojana Project,
02:48 their lies were revealed.
02:51 And,
02:54 we thought that the media also,
02:57 whatever happened in the last 10 years,
03:01 in the last 6 months,
03:03 like it happens,
03:05 that in the 12th exam,
03:08 we thought that in the last 6 months,
03:10 the media will run for 24 hours,
03:12 whatever CAG said.
03:14 Anyway, that didn't happen.
03:16 Maybe it was our foolishness to expect this.
03:19 After that, we thought that
03:22 maybe something new will happen in Ramlila Maidan this time.
03:26 People will gather.
03:28 Someone will wear a Gandhi cap and come out as a fake Gandhi.
03:32 Nothing happened.
03:36 Such a report,
03:38 that in Ayushmaan Bharat Yojana,
03:41 lakhs of non-Indians are connected with one phone number.
03:45 Like the missed call number of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
03:48 In one number, 200 people,
03:50 in a family, 200 people,
03:52 are connected with one number.
03:55 43,000 crores were looted on those numbers.
04:03 This is what the CAG report says, I am not saying.
04:06 Now, come to the Bharat Mala project.
04:12 In the Bharat Mala project,
04:14 the work of a single rupee road,
04:19 was done in 14 rupees.
04:21 You see the figure.
04:27 The work of a single rupee is done in 14 rupees.
04:31 And, a single rupee road,
04:33 is measured in 4 different ways,
04:36 and is shown as 4 kilometers.
04:38 You see, even the rice is being done with so much shame.
04:45 The CAG report did its work with difficulty.
04:50 Leave everything else, leave the road.
04:56 Leave the Ayushmaan Bharat Yojana as well.
05:00 What did the people who voted in the name of Bhagwan Ram do?
05:04 They did not leave Bhagwan Ram's house.
05:07 In the Ayodhya Development Programme,
05:09 along with the contractors,
05:11 the fraud of crores of rupees was done.
05:13 I am telling you one by one,
05:16 what was in the CAG report.
05:18 Udaan, big schemes,
05:23 which the Prime Minister takes the name of and promotes all day.
05:26 Udaan, railway,
05:29 the Khadi Gramodiyog,
05:30 rural development,
05:34 was not left anywhere.
05:36 I will eat, I will feed,
05:40 if you tell me, I will make you shut up.
05:43 Now, what did they do with the CAG? I will tell you.
05:46 Three officials,
05:49 within a few days,
05:53 as soon as this report comes out,
05:56 all three officials were transferred.
05:59 Aturav Sinha,
06:02 Aturav Sinha ji, Bharat Mala Pariyojana, step 1,
06:06 he was the influencer of the CAG report.
06:11 In which I told you,
06:14 one rupee thing was done in 14 rupees.
06:17 Now, Sinha sahib was immediately removed
06:21 and sent to Tiruvananthapuram from Delhi.
06:25 You have done a lot of work.
06:27 Number 2,
06:30 Dattprasad Suryakant Shirsath,
06:35 this Ayushman Bharat,
06:38 which the PM has made a big fuss about,
06:43 he was the influencer of that,
06:45 the influencer of the audit.
06:47 He has exposed corruption,
06:50 corruption of the PM's favourite scheme.
06:54 He was sent to the legal cell.
06:58 Go and see there, it is enough.
07:01 Within a few days,
07:03 after the CAG report came out,
07:05 neither did you say anything,
07:07 nor did any voice come from Ramlila Maidan,
07:09 nor were the Gandhi caps worn.
07:12 Modi ji did what he had to do.
07:15 Ashok Sinha, he is the third official.
07:19 He had started the audit of Ayushman Bharat Jan Aarogi Yojana.
07:25 Originally, he started the audit.
07:28 Where did he send him?
07:30 To Rajbhasha.
07:32 The Chief Executive, Rajbhasha.
07:34 Now you read Hindi, go.
07:36 This condition, the PM did of CAG.
07:42 Now, the most shocking matter,
07:46 I will tell you.
07:48 The most shocking thing is,
07:51 the change has already been made.
07:54 Now, an email has gone,
07:56 an email has gone,
07:58 to the office of the Chief Executive of Bombay,
08:02 that sir, an email has come,
08:06 all audit field reports should be stopped.
08:11 This is that email.
08:14 This is called strangulation.
08:19 This is called strangulation of an organization.
08:23 That no voice came out.
08:25 This is the condition of CAG.
08:28 We have questions from the PM.
08:32 We have heard a lot of your slogans.
08:35 On whose instructions was the order to stop all the field work?
08:42 We know the condition of Murmuji.
08:45 In J&K, Murmuji means this Murmuji, not that Murmuji.
08:51 He was the Chief Executive of J&K.
08:55 When he asked for an election, he was removed.
08:59 Now, he is CAG.
09:01 9 months of work is left.
09:04 What kind of pressure is there on him,
09:08 that he is not signing new reports.
09:11 Since these reports have come.
09:13 We want to know, PM,
09:16 on whose instructions is CAG being strangulated?
09:21 Is it your instructions,
09:23 or your younger brother's instructions?
09:27 The Home Minister, nowadays.
09:30 Whose instructions are these?
09:32 Whose pressure is there that the files are not being signed?
09:35 Our second question is,
09:39 why were the CAG officials changed,
09:42 who are the ones who spread these lies?
09:46 Answer this question to the country.
09:48 Is it because they were not signing where you were telling them to?
09:52 Is it because they showed you a mirror?
09:55 Is it because your facts, your truth,
09:58 your reality was exposed in front of the whole country?
10:01 On a self-reliant organization,
10:06 you will run a bulldozer like this,
10:09 and the country will quietly watch,
10:13 the opposition will quietly watch.
10:15 We will not tolerate this.
10:17 Some of these officials were only in CAG for a few months,
10:20 and they were removed.
10:22 The Modi government has become a criminal by habit.
10:28 It is a crime to destroy organizations.
10:32 Friends, we have in the past done some press conferences
10:38 on the startling CAG reports that came out this year.
10:44 Now CAG normally doesn't come out with reports under this regime.
10:49 We saw 55 reports in 2015,
10:54 that number went down to 14 reports in 2020.
11:01 Some very startling brazen corruption came out in the CAG reports this year.
11:07 On the Bharat Mala project,
11:10 on the Dwarka Expressway project,
11:12 on the Ayushman Bharat project.
11:14 We remember 10 years ago,
11:18 when a particular gentleman called Vinod Rai
11:24 used to leak draft reports to his friends in the media,
11:29 through his friends in the RSS.
11:31 Ramleela Maidan would see activity.
11:35 Prime time channels would show 24/7 what was happening in Ramleela Maidan.
11:41 Nothing. Total pin drop silence.
11:44 Not even in the entertainment section of the newspapers or the television channels.
11:50 Do you see any mention of CAG?
11:53 What has that resulted into?
11:57 It has resulted into more brazenness in the government.
12:03 Why do I say that this has made the government more brazen and more shameless?
12:08 Because within days of these damning CAG reports,
12:12 the officers who were in charge of auditing these projects
12:17 were transferred.
12:22 Summarily transferred.
12:25 Immediately transferred.
12:27 Not only that,
12:29 a mail was sent in Mumbai by the CAG
12:36 saying that all field work should stop.
12:39 Here is a copy of that.
12:41 Not only did they throttle the seemingly independent, autonomous institution,
12:49 they do it shamelessly because they are not afraid of the media anymore.
12:54 The fear of the media that should be in the government has been eliminated.
12:59 They are not afraid of the civil society anymore.
13:03 The fear of the Gandhi cap
13:07 which Anna Hazare wore and created a swan in the country and betrayed the country,
13:13 that fear is gone.
13:15 Therefore, we come to you again with folded hands.
13:22 Please let governments be afraid of the media.
13:25 Because only then will democracies rise.
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