Commonwealth Youth Games expenditure not yet audited: state directorate

The state sports directorate has admitted that the audited report of expenditure for the Commonwealth Youth Games (CYG) held in Pune in October 2008, is not ready even after two years of the event.

Deputy director of sports, MN Thosare, in a letter to Right To Information (RTI) activist Vijay Kumbhar, has accepted that the audit report of the expenditure is not ready and added that the audit team of the comptroller and auditor general (CAG) is also auditing the expenditure for the youth games in the city.

The Pune bench state information commissioner (SIC), Vijay Kuvalekar, had on November 11 ordered the state sports directorate to publish all documents related to the expenditure of Rs425 crore for sports infrastructure of the CYG.

Kuvalekar had passed the order during a hearing of a petition filed by Kumbhar, who had complained against the sports directorate for not publishing all documents related to organisation of the CYG in Pune under section 4 of RTI Act, 2005.

During the hearing, Thosare had told the bench that the directorate was responsible for providing infrastructure for the CYG and it had received Rs425.5 crore for the purpose.

Thosare said that the directorate would furnish information about itself, list of beneficiaries of the directorate, details of expenditure and tenders for the third CYG under section 4 of RTI Act, 2005.

He said that as per Kuvalekar’s directive, the information will be available on http://www.mahasportal.gov.in.