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Environmental impact of quarrying include alteration of terrain, soil erosion, loss of habitat for some species and decrease in ground water recharge.

The audit report highlights issues like shortage of pilots and Emergency Medical Technicians and use of ambulances for non-emergency purposes.

Audit reports help understand governments’ performance and delivery, so you as a citizen can then hold your elected reps and officials accountable!

Bengaluru’s stormwater drains are designed badly, violating all guidelines. Desilting and maintenance are rarely done. That the city floods is no surprise!

Covered, encroached, remodelled or just plain missing – Bengaluru’s stormwater drain network has been so badly mismanaged, finds the accounting watchdog.

CAG audit exposes the reasons behind continued inefficiency of government health care institutions in providing quality services to citizens.

BDA portioned out a public site meant for a park, to the Indira Nagar Club and the Indira Nagar Sangeeth Sabha. In another case, BDA has also donated money to a trust, quite against the rules.

The scale of the Karnataka government’s wrongful allocation game with capital’s land chunks is mindboggling. Hundreds of crores of rupees were lost to the exchequer in recent times.

BBMP’s discredited financial state of affairs and lack of internal audit since 1964 is not news to anyone. However, even after CAG’s scathing findings of 2011, there is still no clarity on a return to timely and comprehensive audits.

Bangalore has a population of nearly 9 million. These contractors managed to take one rupee from every Bangalorean for the work that was not even completed. BBMP officials connived to make extra payments on rajakaluve works that CAG says was never done.