Aizawl, Sept. 9 -- The Comptroller & Auditor General of India (CAG) has raised serious concerns over the Mizoram government's failure to uphold financial propriety, criticising the state for improper salary payments totalling Rs. 80.88 lakh to six employees of the Power & Electricity Department who were absent from duty without authorisation.
The employees had even arranged for proxies to carry out their duties in their place, circumventing official procedures.
An audit conducted between April and May 2023 revealed the irregularities in the records maintained by the Executive Engineer of the Power Project Division, Champhai. The CAG's scrutiny found that the six employees continued to receive full salaries from April 2016 to March 2021 an...