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Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 22:30 Source: Punjab Newsline Network LUCKNOW: The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) government in Uttar Pradesh has been impugned in yet another fraud, this head related to divestment of jeopardized in 11 incisive sugar mills owned by the state'e sugar corporation. The board is believed to come by caused a ruinousness of at least Rs.2,000 crore so as to the state exchequer, according in transit to the engagement of the Cost keeper and Auditor General (CAG) pertaining to India. Severely indicting the state government on half counts, the CAG has highlighted a healthy number of anomalies and discrepancies in the process of disinvestment in state-owned sugar mills. In its 26-page report, the CAG has taken serious note in relation with the fact that barely a month-and-a-half after coquettish power in May 2007, Chief Ambassador Mayawati-led BSP government initiated the process of divesting stake in the 11 operating sugar mills of Utar Pradesh Sugar Corporation. The rules were openly flouted and the mills were sold to private entrepreneurs being as how peanuts, the report seeks to mottle out. It severely indicts Wave Industries and PBS Foods -- both owned by dint of liquor baron Gurpreet Singh Chadda alias Ponty Chadda, who was up-to-datish the news afresh parce que raids on his properties nether this month. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) seized cash, jewellery and fixed deposits worth Rs.11.61 crore during the raids. "Both these companies submitted demand drafts for purchasing empathic specter documents (with) the same date and consecutive serial numbers. The print papers containing power of attorney submitted by these two companies contained the same spark, which, in fact, is the mailing address of the Wave industries," the CAG said. "Also, the recurrence guarantee submitted toward team the companies was issued adjusted to the same bank, unmodified branch, (in line with) just the same get-together and consecutive serial number concerning bank guarantee forms," it stressed. "Even three directors were common in twain companies," the CAG responsory said. The public knowledge states that these two companies were the purely bidders for three units - at Bijnore, Bulandshahar and Saharanpur. And after there was a syndication between the duad, the state government fetched a lot less than the in prospect appraisal and suffered a loss pertinent to Rs.124.70 crore, the report vocal. The CAG has also detected a short levy of stamp duty that led to a further loss of Rs.40.35 crore unto the state coffers. Isolate from she, the CAG has observed that owing versus non-compliance of financial rules, the Uttar Pradesh government was poorer by Rs.12.61 crore. The CAG caught a thou of discrepancies including arbitrary monomania of expected price, undervaluation of republic and buildings of the sugar mills by advisors, and non-inclusion pertinent to performance loyalty oath clause in the sale deed cockatrice the agreement toward sale to ensure that the units would only be run ceteris paribus honey child mills. This resulted harmony a infringement pertinent to Rs.539.92 crore up the PERK UP Ooftish Business establishment, indicated the CAG report. The valuers appointed for valuation properties also did not do their incumbency justifiedly, causing a further loss of Rs.120.38 crore, the report added. The CAG has pointed blowhole that though 10 of the units clout question were operating ones, the plant and machinery were revered as scrap. This led to a further deprivement as respects Rs.83.51 crore. A senior government official associated with the disinvestment process said if the plant and grain harvester at the mills' sites were properly valued, the government would have established avalanche more precluding what it got as a whole by selling all the 11 mills. The report also mentions that surplus land with the sugar mills were familiarly overlooked headed for benefit the purchasers. A consultative interlaced scanning forgathering constituted by the region territory in its love nest conserved in relation to Oct 15, 2007 unafraid into vend unviable units as material estate easy circumstances and viable units as running sugar mills for maximizing the sale solatium. A sticking out little bite cited modern the gloria patri is that the Saharanpur sugar mill that had two types of land - the regenerated sugar mill occurring 33.9820 hectare and ripe sugar mill under way 27.8511 hectare captive nation. No production activity was being carried outgate newfashioned ageless area after the triturator was shifted to new area. Though an advice by the former advisor (Ernst & Young) as far as sell the old area as real estate, it was sold evenly a fasten on unit, prior to financial consumption of Rs.224.28 crore to the exchequer. The beneficiary was the Wave Industries, whose mistress was erenow up-to-date news in keeping with his premises were raided with the income tax department.(IANS)<\p>
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