Bhubaneswar, Dec. 13: Odisha has lost a central grant of Rs 182 crore as it failed to meet the conditions stipulated by the 13th Finance Commission.

The central grant is only released after various conditions of the finance commission are complied with.

It came to light during the tabling of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India report today in the Odisha Assembly by finance minister Prasanna Acharya.

Odisha has lost the grants under grants to local bodies (Rs 106 crore), incentives for using Unique Identification Display (Rs 35.70 crore), justice delivery (Rs 19.36 crore), capacity building (Rs 5 crore) and preservation of monuments and Buddhist heritage (Rs 16.25 crore).

The grants for capacity building, justice delivery and incentive for issue of Unique Identification Display had not been released for want of utilisation certificate by the state government in respect of grants released during 2010-11.

On the other hand, release of grants in respect of preservation of monuments and Buddhist heritage was delayed because the state government took a lot of time to submit the action plan.

In its report, the Comptroller and Auditor General pointed out that the Odisha government’s compliance with various rules, procedures and directives relating to utilisation of funds was unsatisfactory.

It was evident from delays in furnishing utilisation certificates against the grants from various institutions and issue of inaccurate utilisation certificates.

Information on financial assistance given to various institutions by different departments of the state government has not been furnished to the accountant general as required under the provisions of the Audit and Accounts Regulations 2007 and state government rules.

The Comptroller and Auditor General has also pointed out that 10 departments of the state government had failed to submit the utilisation certificate of different grants coming to them.

The panchayati raj department has topped in its failure to submit the utilisation certificates to the tune of Rs 8,304.50 crore during the past eight years.

The other major defaulters were the housing and urban development (Rs 3,264.78 crore), school and mass education (Rs 3,324.72 crore) and planning and coordination departments (Rs 3,264.78 crore).

The Comptroller and Auditor General also questioned the state government’s public-private partnership (PPP) programme.

The resources generated during 2007-2012 were negligible as most of these projects did not take off.

Only eight out of the 70 projects have been completed.

“Delay in completion of PPP projects ranging from one to three years affected the flow of intended benefits to the public through the utilities such as communications, transportation, housing and tourism as well as generation of resources,” a source said.