Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), which is in the process of preparing its audit report for different departments of Odisha government, has detected discrepancies in land and plot allotment process of Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA).
In its draft report, the CAG had written to the BDA vice chairman about 98 cases, where the land allottee had sold the land for profit motive, while the agency remained mum.
The auditing agency found three patterns for selling land after allotment. First one was pre-possession land transfer, in which the allottee sold the land even before he took actual possession of the land.
In second pattern, which the CAG terms as post-possession land, the land allocated was sold after possession while in the third case, the allotted persons sold the land at much higher price after taking permission from BDA.
The CAG found out that the government lost at least a couple of crore rupees for not taking action against those people, who have been allotted land in different schemes. The BDA has allotted 1487 land and plots between 2002 and 2012.
