Cultural ministry takes on CAG's missing monuments report

September 10, 2013 20:19

From a correspondent in Delhi: After Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal, who took on the Comptroller and Auditor General in the 2G case, now it seems to be the turn of Union Minister for Culture Chandresh Kumari Katoch, to rebut the CAG's report on missing monuments.

In a stunning blow to the findings of the CAG, the ministry of culture issued an official statement on Tuesday saying that the auditor was wrong in saying that 92 monuments/sites were missing or untraceable.The ministry said that 39 monuments listed by the missing category do exist.

The ministry claimed that 65 of the 92 monuments cannot be treated in the missing category.

The ministry said that it ordered a detailed verification by its field officers after the CAG's report that was tabled in Parliament on August 23.

The CAG claimed that it did so after undertaking the performance audit of the Archaeological Survey of India, Katoch stated that necessary information has been received from the field offices of the ASI and it is revealed that out of 92 monuments, 65 monuments cannot be treated as missing or untraceable.

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