India, Aug. 5 -- Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta on Monday tabled the Comptroller and Auditor General's (CAG) performance audit report on the welfare of construction workers in the city, highlighting significant irregularities in cess collection, data maintenance, and welfare implementation by the Delhi Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board.

The report, titled Performance Audit on Welfare of Building and Other Construction Workers for the year ended March 31, 2023, revealed that while the board had collected Rs.3,579.05 crore in construction cess as of March 2023, there was an unaccounted gap of Rs.204.95 crore between the cess figures recorded by district authorities and those maintained by the board over the last four ...