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Tamil Nadu’s Own Tax Revenue grew marginally to ₹34,311.23 crore in April-June 2023 from ₹33,923.04 crore in the same period last year, according to the provisional figures from the Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG).

TNSCZMA plans to set up 5 regional units to monitor CRZ violations & increase scrutiny fee to fund resources. Units to cover 14 districts & submit periodical reports. Proposal follows AG & CAG reports on lack of monitoring & enforcement actions.

Kharge said the latest audit report of CAG makes a special mention of how between 2017-18 and 2020-21, about seven out of 10 train accidents happened due to derailment. Read further on Dynamite News:

Mallikarjun Kharge accused the Centre of not implementing the suggestions for track renewals as reason for Odisha train accident.

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The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), in its 2022 report on “Derailments in Indian Railways”, had flagged multiple shortcomings and made several recommendations, which included the suggestion to ensure strict adherence to the scheduled timelines for conducting and finalising accident inquiries.

The State is scrambling to raise resources to ensure uninterrupted implementation of the spree of welfare and developmental programmes such as Rythu Bandhu (farmers’ investment support scheme) and Dalit Bandhu (one-time grant of 10 lakh each to Dalit families) as funds are hard to come by.

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Tamil Nadu ended fiscal 2022-23 with gross market borrowings of ₹87,000 crore and was the top borrowing State. However, analysts pointed out that the quality of borrowing improved as it was channelised towards capital assets.