The report claims that Sibal’s ministry
“overlooked rules and regulations” and “handpicked” M/s Phoenix Rose LLC,
Maryland for the job, in violation of the “General Finance Rules”. The
project’s cost was $1,20,000. But, three years after the initiation, the
company has dumped the networking site, completing just over 16% of the
targeted work. However, government sources said the said incident was happened
at the time when Uncle was Minister of science and technology and currently he
is Telecom Minister so he is nothing to do with the said controversy. The
government source added still Kapil Uncle will come in front of media with
detailed calculations and application of his Zero Loss Theory on the CAG claim.
One close associate of Kapil Uncle said that Uncle in private said same thing
which he told at the time of media conference about Prashant Bhushan. Uncle
said that CAG is misusing its role to tarnish the image of Ministers… CAG
should not use its rights to settle personal scores. It is a dishonest report…governments
cannot function in this manner.” When DCFC digged into matters, sources said
CAG was taking revenge on Uncle’s statement which he made last month. Kapil
Uncle will visit Madamji’s office and also visit Manmohanji and Rahul Baba to
prove his innocence and honesty towards Congress Party.
Uncle last month made a statement that the
time had come to debate the role of the CAG’s office. “What should be the CAG’s
role in the post-1990 economic scenario? There are two views - one that says
the CAG should comment on policy, and there is another classical view that it
should only deal with the expenditure incurred and whether it has moved away
from the intent of allocation. That it should not comment on the merits of a
transaction without understanding the circumstances in which the decision was
taken. Yes, there should be a debate.”
According to Report, most of the project
payment was “released” even before completion of the first phase. Payments were
made in “three installments of $25,000, $26,200 and $38,800, in February,
August and December, 2007 respectively”. The vendor, however, collected data of
“only 3,300 professionals” against the “targeted 20,000” for the first phase.
And profiles of “only eight associations” were included in the database,
against a list of “200 associations” identified. Despite the failures of the
firm in meeting its first phase targets, the CAG notes, the department of
science and technology sanctioned implementation of the second phase at a cost
of $30,000.
The principal director for audit at the India
embassy in Washington has noted in the report that “unfruitful expenditure and
undue favour was given to the vendor”.
To understand the reasons behind the
difficult occurrences in Kapil Uncle’s life these days we asked India’s well
known astrologer Mr. Anjan Copycatwalla. Mr. Anjan first attributed all his
success to Maa Durga and said Kapil is born in Leo sign and currently the
signals are not good. A soul mate connection is great, but at the same time it
brings a certain amount of anxiety which has to be faced and resolved. Focusing
on a goal with positive visualization helps manifest it very quickly.
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