{"id":561164,"date":"2023-03-07T10:14:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T04:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=561164"},"modified":"2023-03-07T11:30:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T06:00:40","slug":"central-road-fund-misused-in-punjab-cag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/central-road-fund-misused-in-punjab-cag\/","title":{"rendered":"Central road fund misused in Punjab: CAG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has flagged the \u201cmisuse and uneven distribution\u201d of the Central Road and Infrastructure Fund (CRIF) in Punjab, claiming 60 per cent of the grant was spent in former PWD Minister Vijay Inder Singla\u2019s home district Sangrur.<\/p>\n<p>In its report for the 2020-21 financial year that is to be tabled in the Vidhan Sabha, the CAG said the Punjab Government failed to prepare a proposal covering the \u201ccore network\u201d of roads from across the state and instead included 60 per cent of the roads from Sangrur alone. One \u201cineligible\u201d road too was included, it said. The \u201ccore network\u201d comprises selected state highways and major district roads that have the potential to be upgraded as national highways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has flagged the \u201cmisuse and uneven distribution\u201d of the Central Road and Infrastructure Fund (CRIF) in Punjab, claiming 60 per cent of the grant was spent in former PWD Minister Vijay Inder Singla\u2019s home district Sangrur. In its report for the 2020-21 financial year that is to be tabled in the Vidhan Sabha, the CAG said the Punjab Government failed to prepare a proposal covering the \u201ccore network\u201d of roads from across the state and instead included 60 per cent of the roads from Sangrur alone. One \u201cineligible\u201d road too was included, it said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,225,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}