Chennai;
The
Minjur desalination plant was built without detailed project report (DPR) and
the comparative cost benefit of implementing the project by other public
private partnership mode was not worked out before deciding to set up the plant
under design, build, own operate and transfer (DBOOT) basis, according to a
Comptroller and Auditor General of India report.
The
report released by principal accountant
generals Suhasini Srinivasan and S Murugiah at the office of The Principal
Accountant General here on Wednesday said that due to non-revision of water
charges by Metro Water, the entire cost of purchase of the desalinated water at
Rs 48.66 per kilo litre had to be borne by the government resulting in
additional annual financial burden of Rs 180 crore to the government.
The report stated an
avoidable expenditure of Rs 6.95 crore was incurred by Metro Water on
electricity charges due to delay in getting the tariff changed from industrial
tariff to the tariff applicable for the high tension electricity connection for
municipal water supply scheme.
Metro Water surrendered 44.56
acres of surplus land to Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation in 2009
but neither the value of the land (Rs 96 lakh) was received back nor equal area
of alternate land was obtained from TIDCO, the report added.
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