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The government has appointed Girish Chandra Murmu as the new Comptroller and Auditor General of India with effect from August 8, 2020. He was the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, prior to joining this post. Murmu has been sworn-in by the President of India. He succeeds Rajiv Mehrishi in the office of CAG. Contents • • Who is Girish C Murmu? GC Murmu is a post-graduate in Political Science from Utkal University and he also holds an MBA Degree from the University of Birmingham. Born in 1959 in Mayurbhanj District in Odisha and has wide experience in administrative, economic and infrastructure fields. He has also served in important posts in Gujarat. Apart from that, he has been the Secretary of the Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance. What is CAG? It is an independent authority under the Constitution of India. The main objective of this department is to check if the government departments are following all the rules and regulations while making any expenditure. In the Indian Constitution, Article 148 deals with the office of CAG. The CAG is appointed for a period of 6 years or until attaining the age of 65 years, whichever is earlier. CAG cannot take up any other post after his retirement.

New Delhi: With the devastating train accident in Odisha earlier this month raising questions about the Narendra Modi government’s spending on the upkeep of existing Railways resources, an analysis of official documents shows that the percentage of money spent on signalling and communications has not changed in the past six years. The focus has been on new projects over upkeep. For example, the 2023-24 Union Budget had the highest-ever capital expenditure outlay for the Indian Railways at 2.4 lakh crore — more than nine times the amount earmarked in the financial year 2013-14. This is also almost four times from actual capital expenditure of Rs 45,231.63 crore in 2016-17, annual reports from the Railways show. But of this, the sum allotted to new work was nearly double the amount the amount the government planned to spend on the upkeep of existing infrastructure. These new projects include the laying of new tracks, whereas upkeep consists of work like track renewal. This is the process of upgrading the components of railway tracks, including sleepers and ballast. According to protocol, 4,500 km of India’s total track length of 1,14,907 km has to be replaced annually. The Railways’ annual reports from 2016-17 to 2022-23 show that the national transporter has missed the mandated target for track renewal nearly every year. Data also shows that the Railways has spent more on new tracks than on track renewal in the past six years. For example, the Railways spent Rs 80,740.0...

Criticising the govt for ignoring the Kharge recommendations, Kharge asked when CAG in its 2022 report pointed that almost seven out of 10 accidents between 2017-21 were due to train derailment, then why there was zero testing of Rail and Weld (Track Maintenance) for safety in the East Coast Railway Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Sunday said the "root cause" of the deadly train accident in Balasore of Odisha that claimed 275 lives and over 1,175 injured, has been identified and will be revealed very soon. The railway minister said the accident happened due to a change in "electronic interlocking". India's top auditing body, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), in a 2022 report on “Derailments in Indian Railways" held the engineering department of the Indian Railways responsible for the majority of derailments. The report attributed422 derailments, from April 2017 to March 2021, to thedepartment. The report had also flagged severe shortfalls in inspections, failure to submit or accept inquiry reports after accidents, not utilising a dedicated railway fund on priority tasks, declining trend in funding track renewal, and inadequate staffing in safety operations as serious concerns. The report pointed towards poor track maintenance, overspeeding, and mechanical failure as significant reasons for derailments "There were shortfalls ranging from 30-100 per cent in inspections by Track Recording Cars required to assess geometrical and structural conditions of railway trac...

CAG’s 2022 report on ‘Derailments in Indian Railways’ flagged multiple shortcomings The auditors found that there were shortfalls ranging from 30-100% in inspections by track recording cars and idling of track machines owing to various reasons June 04, 2023 01:22 am | Updated 12:02 pm IST - New Delhi The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), in its 2022 report on “Derailments in Indian Railways”, had flagged multiple shortcomings and made several recommendations, which included the suggestion to ensure strict adherence to the scheduled timelines for conducting and finalising accident inquiries. The instances mentioned in the report were those which came to the CAG’s attention in the course of the test audit for the period April 2017 to March 2021, as well as those, which had come to its notice in earlier years, but could not be reported in the previous audit reports. Odisha train accident | Probe to examine whether the Coromandel Express derailed or switched tracks Also Read | The focus of the audit was to ascertain whether measures to prevent derailments and collisions were clearly laid down and implemented by the Ministry of Railways. The auditors found that there were shortfalls ranging from 30-100% in inspections by track recording cars and idling of track machines owing to various reasons. Highlighting the significance of timely inquiries, the report said that its main objective was to ascertain the cause of an accident and to formulate proposals for prevent...

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