CAG Report 2012 Archives

Governance

Indira Nagar park site given to a private club

February 17, 2013 Navya P K

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.

Governance

How Manyata Tech Park got hundreds of acres

February 13, 2013 Navya P K

The CAG report explains how the developer got public land in chunks – of 99, 27 and 43 acres, much of it through illegal and improper actions of KIADB and BDA and various state governments.

Civic

CAG’s indictment of HDK and Yeddy is gory in detail

January 21, 2013 Shamala Kittane Subramanyan

You get a BDA site after years of waiting. You build a house. Then, suddenly, the chief minister takes sites away and returns land to the former owners who then sell it to get rich. Welcome to Karnataka, where Bengaluru is our politicians’real estate playground.

Governance

Bengaluru’s CA sites are ‘Crorepathi Amenities’

January 15, 2013 Navya P K

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.

Governance

Indicted by CAG, strangled by State, Bengaluru limps on

February 19, 2012 Subramaniam Vincent

It is a remarkable state of affairs for a city that led the global oursourcing revolution. CAG’s audit of Bengaluru corporation has exposed a shocking state of financial rot.