Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India report pointed out that Nagaland has 373 incomplete projects in 36 departments with a total estimated cost of Rs. 3004.76 crore out of which Rs 2100.61 crore had already been incurred as expenditure for the projects.
The C&AG report presented by the chief minister Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsu at the ongoing budget session stated that out of the total incomplete projects, 211 projects at an estimated cost of Rs 2110.91 crore and an actual expenditure of Rs 1091.36 crore were due to be completed by March 2016.
However, it stated that projects remained incomplete even by October 2016 while 2 projects with an estimated cost of Rs 10.93 crore and actual expenditure of Rs 10.47 crore were abandoned.
The reports stated that owing to the delay in completion of the projects, the intended benefits from those projects did not reach the beneficiaries in the state.
Moreover the date of completion in respect of 57 projects could not be furnished by the concerned departments stated the report.
Department of Under Developed Area (DUDA) topped the list of incompletion of projects with a record 75 incomplete projects at an estimated cost of Rs 83.69 crore and a cumulative expenditure of Rs 23.83 crore. Next was Veterinary and Animal Husbandry with 60 incomplete projects at an estimated cost of Rs 48.71 crore and a cumulative expenditure of Rs 20.60 crore.
Police Engineering Project had 53 incomplete projects at a staggering estimated cost of Rs 701.71 crore and a cumulative expenditure of Rs 181.35 crore.
Public Works Department (Roads and Bridges) had 34 incomplete projects at an estimated cost of Rs 642.85 crore and a cumulative expenditure of Rs 502.77 crore while Deputy Commissioner (HQ) had 26 incomplete projects at an estimated cost or Rs 9 crore but zero cumulative expenditure.
PWD (Housing) has 19 incomplete projects at the cost of Rs 346.71 crore and a cumulative expenditure of Rs 203. 64 crore, Urban Development had 14 incomplete projects at an estimated cost of Rs 378.75 crore and a cumulative expenditure of Rs 149.08 crore.
Public health Engineering Department had 13 incomplete projects with an estimated cost of Rs 246.77 crore and a cumulative expenditure of Rs 110.37 crore while Transport Commissioner and Department of Higher Education each had 10 projects at estimated costs of Rs 83.10 crore and Rs 24.22 crore and cumulative expenditures of Rs 52.74 crore and Rs 8.85 crore respectively.
Technical Education, Youth Resources and Sports, Public Works Department (National Highways), Home Guard Department, Women Resources Department and treasury and Accounts Department had 4 incomplete projects each.
Geology and Mining, Land Record and Survey, Legal Metrology and Consumer Protection had 3 incomplete projects each while SCERT, Medical Engineering Division, Civil Administrative Works Division, Directorate of Evaluation, Economics and Statistic, Social Welfare, Irrigation and Flood Control, Employment and Craftsmen Training and Commissioner of Excise had 2 incomplete projects each.
Power, Directorate of School Education, Addl. Chief Conservator of Forest (Development and Planning), Border Affairs, Department of Prison, Directorate of Agriculture, Printing and Stationery Department and Sericulture Department had one incomplete project each.
Four incomplete projects in Youth Resource and Sports with an estimated cost of Rs 174.59 crore and an average cost of Rs 43.64 crore had the most expensive projects.
The two abandoned projects estimated at a cost of Rs 10.93 crore and an actual expenditure of Rs 10.47 crore were taken up under PWD (R&B).
The cumulative expenditure as of March 31, 2016 has exceeded initial budget and revised cost in projects taken up by Technical Education Department, Land Record & Survey Department and PWD (National Highways).
The cost of six incomplete projects taken up by PWD (R&B) was Rs 38.56 crore, Geology and Mining-Rs 26.54 crore, SCERT-Rs 4.28 crore, Veterinary and Animal Husbandry-Rs. 0.30 crore and Youth Resources and Sports-Rs3.50 crore had been revised and increased by Rs 62.30 crore, an increase in 85.13 percent.
The initial estimated cost of the six projects was Rs 73.18 crore which was later revised to Rs 135.48 crore.
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