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  • ICAI And CAG Launched Specialized Courses For 12th Pass Panchayat And Municipal Accountants, Here Are The Details |

    New Delhi: The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) have forged a collaborative initiative aimed at launching a comprehensive certificate course tailored for accountants engaged in the financial management of panchayats and municipalities. This joint endeavor introduces four specialized courses focusing on advanced accounting practices, each meticulously crafted to address the specific requirements of diverse governmental entities.

    Enrollment for these courses is facilitated through an exclusive platform hosted at lba.icaiarf.org.in, ensuring accessibility for interested candidates year-round. The courses, meticulously structured to accommodate professional commitments, are delivered entirely online, affording participants the flexibility to engage with course materials at their convenience, irrespective of geographical constraints.

    So, what exactly do these courses entail?

    The curriculum encompasses two distinct certificate programs, meticulously designed to cater to the unique operational dynamics prevalent across various tiers of governmental bodies. The first set of certificate courses caters to accountants operating within panchayats, bifurcated into Level 1 tailored for gram panchayats and Level 2 targeting district and block panchayats. Additionally, specialized certificate courses are available for municipal entities, with Level 1 catering to Nagar Panchayats and Level 2 focusing on municipal corporations and municipalities. The overarching goal of these meticulously curated programs is to equip accountants with the requisite skills and expertise essential for effective financial management within their respective administrative spheres.

    But what awaits candidates upon successful completion of these courses?

    Graduates are conferred their certificates digitally, streamlining the certification process and facilitating instantaneous access to their credentials. Furthermore, the consortium maintains a publicly accessible registry of certificate holders on its website, fostering transparency and enabling seamless verification and acknowledgment of accomplishments.

    And there’s more – comprehensive study materials are provided to aid candidates in their preparatory endeavors. These resources include an array of e-study materials accessible online, prerecorded revisionary lectures for thorough review, and MCQ-based tests to facilitate practice and evaluation. Moreover, dedicated live virtual revisionary sessions, tailored specifically for the main examination, offer interactive platforms for enhanced comprehension and preparation. Currently available in 10 languages, including English, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Oriya, Gujarati, Kannada, Bengali, and Punjabi, the study material is poised for expansion to encompass additional languages in the near future.

  • CAG flays Centre’s ‘Swadesh Darshan’ scheme, says tourism ministry has ‘no long-term imaginative and prescient’

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    NEW DELHI:  The Comptroller and Auditor Common (CAG), the rustic’s best auditing frame, has published that the much-talked-about Swadesh Darshan Scheme (SDS) was once introduced in by way of the Ministry of Tourism with out an efficient mechanism for analysis or approval of tasks despatched by way of the state govt or Union Territories (UTs) inside a “particular period of time.”

    The audit has discovered that the ministry had taken 1-6 years to study and go back the proposals of 202 tasks. The record states {that a} overall of 71 mission proposals touching on 2015-2019 have been returned by way of the ministry in August-October 2019 with the request to put up the proposal consistent with the scheme tips of October 2017. 

    “Additional, 131 mission proposals have been returned (in November 2021) at the floor that the scheme was once underneath overview. From the ten to be had main points of 96 mission proposals out of 202, it was once spotted that the ministry took as much as six years to study and go back the proposals of states,” reads the CAG audit report submitted all over the lately concluded Parliament consultation.

    The ministry stored 43 proposals pending for 3 years or extra with out taking any motion, and 9 of those proposals have been returned after 5-6 years of submission,” it famous. The federal auditor decided on 14 tasks similar to ten vacationer circuits from 13 states out of 76 tasks (15 circuits) licensed underneath the scheme for overview.

    The ministry didn’t have any long-term imaginative and prescient or coverage for enforcing the scheme, the CAG additionally famous.  “Whilst 18-36 months were given to the state governments/UTs to finish the tasks, the ministry itself stored the mission proposals pending for as much as six years in a couple of circumstances with none motion because it didn’t have an outlined timeline for approval or rejection of mission proposals,” the CAG remarked.

    Flagship scheme for tourism building

    The Swadesh Darshan Scheme, introduced in 2015 with an outlay of Rs 500 crore, is a Central sector flagship scheme for the improvement of tourism infrastructure within the nation.

    A complete of 76 tasks comprising 910 websites and six,898 elements in 243 districts have been sanctioned underneath it all over 2015-2019. Consistent with the tourism ministry, 63 tasks are whole.

    The scheme has been made over as ‘Swadesh Darshan 2.0’ with the target of creating sustainable and accountable tourism locations. The ministry has recognized 55 locations for building for which it has already began appointing experts.

    NEW DELHI:  The Comptroller and Auditor Common (CAG), the rustic’s best auditing frame, has published that the much-talked-about Swadesh Darshan Scheme (SDS) was once introduced in by way of the Ministry of Tourism with out an efficient mechanism for analysis or approval of tasks despatched by way of the state govt or Union Territories (UTs) inside a “particular period of time.”

    The audit has discovered that the ministry had taken 1-6 years to study and go back the proposals of 202 tasks. The record states {that a} overall of 71 mission proposals touching on 2015-2019 have been returned by way of the ministry in August-October 2019 with the request to put up the proposal consistent with the scheme tips of October 2017. 

    “Additional, 131 mission proposals have been returned (in November 2021) at the floor that the scheme was once underneath overview. From the ten to be had main points of 96 mission proposals out of 202, it was once spotted that the ministry took as much as six years to study and go back the proposals of states,” reads the CAG audit report submitted all over the lately concluded Parliament consultation.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    The ministry stored 43 proposals pending for 3 years or extra with out taking any motion, and 9 of those proposals have been returned after 5-6 years of submission,” it famous. The federal auditor decided on 14 tasks similar to ten vacationer circuits from 13 states out of 76 tasks (15 circuits) licensed underneath the scheme for overview.

    The ministry didn’t have any long-term imaginative and prescient or coverage for enforcing the scheme, the CAG additionally famous.  “Whilst 18-36 months were given to the state governments/UTs to finish the tasks, the ministry itself stored the mission proposals pending for as much as six years in a couple of circumstances with none motion because it didn’t have an outlined timeline for approval or rejection of mission proposals,” the CAG remarked.

    Flagship scheme for tourism building

    The Swadesh Darshan Scheme, introduced in 2015 with an outlay of Rs 500 crore, is a Central sector flagship scheme for the improvement of tourism infrastructure within the nation.

    A complete of 76 tasks comprising 910 websites and six,898 elements in 243 districts have been sanctioned underneath it all over 2015-2019. Consistent with the tourism ministry, 63 tasks are whole.

    The scheme has been made over as ‘Swadesh Darshan 2.0’ with the target of creating sustainable and accountable tourism locations. The ministry has recognized 55 locations for building for which it has already began appointing experts.

  • Anti-encroachment pressure in Jammu and Kashmir now not halted, will proceed relentlessly

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    SRINAGAR: However the protests from folks and political events, the Lt Governor management in Jammu and Kashmir has now not halted the anti-encroachment pressure and the pressure is occurring relentlessly to retrieve the state, grazed and Roshni Act land from the encroachers.

    A best govt respectable informed this newspaper that the anti-encroachment pressure in J&Ok has now not been stopped or halted.

    “The anti-encroachment pressure is being performed on instructions of the Courtroom. It’s going consistent with the right kind and systematic means. Numerous development has been accomplished within the anti-encroachment pressure to this point. Now we’re consolidating and securing it. After consolidation, the pressure will additional select up momentum,” he stated.

    The respectable, alternatively, asserted that the pressure is occurring and the anti-encroachment pressure can most effective be stopped if court docket orders its halt.  

    70 % of goals had been accomplished all through the anti-encroachment pressure to this point, he stated.

    In October 2020, J&Ok Prime Courtroom had declared unconstitutional, unlawful and unsustainable the 2001 Roshni Act, which gave possession rights to the unauthorised occupants of state land in opposition to fee of a top class, and ordered a CBI probe to research the allotment of the land.

    Whilst J&Ok govt anticipated to grasp over Rs 25,000 crores as earnings from regularization of the land beneath the Roshni Act, a 2014 CAG document famous that most effective Rs 76 crores have been realised from switch of encroached land between 2007 and 2013.

    J&Ok Leader Secretary A Ok Mehta all through a evaluation assembly not too long ago had requested officers to move for geo-referencing and digitization of all retrieved land from the encroachers.

    The officers have been directed to add main points of the land retrieved throughout J&Ok at the portal for inside scrutiny.

    Saying that the pressure is occurring easily barring a couple of minor incidents, the respectable stated, “The pressure has were given public beef up. No not unusual individual is being careworn all through the pressure. Most effective worry was once created that not unusual folks will probably be careworn however no not unusual individual was once careworn or impacted by way of the pressure”.

     “There have been most effective two incidents in Kashmir – one in town centre Lal Chowk and some other at Mehjoor Nagar – and those have been corrected,” he stated.  

    A large stone pelting had taken position within the Jammu house when a showroom was once demolished. Government later deployed further forces within the house to limit public motion whilst demolishing the showroom. There have additionally been protests in different portions of the UT additionally.

    The respectable stated the ant-encroachment pressure is occurring easily and folks have by way of and big supported it. “With out public beef up, this pressure in opposition to the land grabbers may just now not had been a hit”.

    The political events have antagonistic the anti-encroachment pressure and use of bulldozers to demolish the buildings.

    After the release of the anti-encroachment pressure closing month, Lt Governor Manoj Sinha had stated most effective influential folks, who misused their place to encroach the state land, could be focused whilst the average and deficient males gained’t be touched.

    On the other hand, folks need the officers to admire the phrase of Lt Governor at the floor.

    In January this 12 months, the federal government had directed all 20 Deputy Commissioners of J&Ok to make sure that all encroachments on State land, grazing and Roshni Act land are got rid of by way of January 31, 2023. On the other hand, the cut-off date has been prolonged now.

    SRINAGAR: However the protests from folks and political events, the Lt Governor management in Jammu and Kashmir has now not halted the anti-encroachment pressure and the pressure is occurring relentlessly to retrieve the state, grazed and Roshni Act land from the encroachers.

    A best govt respectable informed this newspaper that the anti-encroachment pressure in J&Ok has now not been stopped or halted.

    “The anti-encroachment pressure is being performed on instructions of the Courtroom. It’s going consistent with the right kind and systematic means. Numerous development has been accomplished within the anti-encroachment pressure to this point. Now we’re consolidating and securing it. After consolidation, the pressure will additional select up momentum,” he stated.

    The respectable, alternatively, asserted that the pressure is occurring and the anti-encroachment pressure can most effective be stopped if court docket orders its halt.  

    70 % of goals had been accomplished all through the anti-encroachment pressure to this point, he stated.

    In October 2020, J&Ok Prime Courtroom had declared unconstitutional, unlawful and unsustainable the 2001 Roshni Act, which gave possession rights to the unauthorised occupants of state land in opposition to fee of a top class, and ordered a CBI probe to research the allotment of the land.

    Whilst J&Ok govt anticipated to grasp over Rs 25,000 crores as earnings from regularization of the land beneath the Roshni Act, a 2014 CAG document famous that most effective Rs 76 crores have been realised from switch of encroached land between 2007 and 2013.

    J&Ok Leader Secretary A Ok Mehta all through a evaluation assembly not too long ago had requested officers to move for geo-referencing and digitization of all retrieved land from the encroachers.

    The officers have been directed to add main points of the land retrieved throughout J&Ok at the portal for inside scrutiny.

    Saying that the pressure is occurring easily barring a couple of minor incidents, the respectable stated, “The pressure has were given public beef up. No not unusual individual is being careworn all through the pressure. Most effective worry was once created that not unusual folks will probably be careworn however no not unusual individual was once careworn or impacted by way of the pressure”.

     “There have been most effective two incidents in Kashmir – one in town centre Lal Chowk and some other at Mehjoor Nagar – and those have been corrected,” he stated.  

    A large stone pelting had taken position within the Jammu house when a showroom was once demolished. Government later deployed further forces within the house to limit public motion whilst demolishing the showroom. There have additionally been protests in different portions of the UT additionally.

    The respectable stated the ant-encroachment pressure is occurring easily and folks have by way of and big supported it. “With out public beef up, this pressure in opposition to the land grabbers may just now not had been a hit”.

    The political events have antagonistic the anti-encroachment pressure and use of bulldozers to demolish the buildings.

    After the release of the anti-encroachment pressure closing month, Lt Governor Manoj Sinha had stated most effective influential folks, who misused their place to encroach the state land, could be focused whilst the average and deficient males gained’t be touched.

    On the other hand, folks need the officers to admire the phrase of Lt Governor at the floor.

    In January this 12 months, the federal government had directed all 20 Deputy Commissioners of J&Ok to make sure that all encroachments on State land, grazing and Roshni Act land are got rid of by way of January 31, 2023. On the other hand, the cut-off date has been prolonged now.

  • Out of date knowledge used to transparent initiatives in disaster-prone coastal spaces: CAG file

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    NEW DELHI: Out of date baseline knowledge was once used for initiatives cleared in coastal spaces, non-evaluation of environmental affect of initiatives, initiatives licensed by way of the union atmosphere ministry in spite of a number of inadequacies within the mission proposals, those are one of the key problems flagged by way of the rustic’s auditor CAG in a file at the overview of mission clearances in disaster-prone coastal spaces.

    “The initiatives have been licensed in spite of inadequacies within the Surroundings Affect Evaluation Stories which integrated non-accreditation of the advisor concerned with the preparation of the EIA Document, utilization of old-fashioned baseline knowledge, non- analysis of environmental affects of the mission, non-addressal of screw ups which the mission space was once vulnerable to,” stated the file ‘Conservation of Coastal Ecosystem’ tables within the Parliament on Monday.

    The nationwide auditor famous that cases have been seen the place Professional Appraisal Committees (EAC) granted clearances, regardless that area mavens weren’t provide all through the mission deliberations.

    Additionally, circumstances have been famous the place the individuals of EAC have been lower than part of the overall energy all through the deliberations as there was once no mounted quorum for EAC individuals.

    The Govt has issued notifications below Phase 3 and 5 of Surroundings Coverage Act 1986 to control the actions in coastal area so to offer protection to the coastal atmosphere from more than a few anthropogenic actions. Coastal Law Zone Notification (CRZ) 2019 was once carried out by way of Union atmosphere ministry. 

    NEW DELHI: Out of date baseline knowledge was once used for initiatives cleared in coastal spaces, non-evaluation of environmental affect of initiatives, initiatives licensed by way of the union atmosphere ministry in spite of a number of inadequacies within the mission proposals, those are one of the key problems flagged by way of the rustic’s auditor CAG in a file at the overview of mission clearances in disaster-prone coastal spaces.

    “The initiatives have been licensed in spite of inadequacies within the Surroundings Affect Evaluation Stories which integrated non-accreditation of the advisor concerned with the preparation of the EIA Document, utilization of old-fashioned baseline knowledge, non- analysis of environmental affects of the mission, non-addressal of screw ups which the mission space was once vulnerable to,” stated the file ‘Conservation of Coastal Ecosystem’ tables within the Parliament on Monday.

    The nationwide auditor famous that cases have been seen the place Professional Appraisal Committees (EAC) granted clearances, regardless that area mavens weren’t provide all through the mission deliberations.

    Additionally, circumstances have been famous the place the individuals of EAC have been lower than part of the overall energy all through the deliberations as there was once no mounted quorum for EAC individuals.

    The Govt has issued notifications below Phase 3 and 5 of Surroundings Coverage Act 1986 to control the actions in coastal area so to offer protection to the coastal atmosphere from more than a few anthropogenic actions. Coastal Law Zone Notification (CRZ) 2019 was once carried out by way of Union atmosphere ministry.