(a) whether as on 1.4.99 there were 47,911 cases of
adjudication in excise cases involving over Rs.8,060 crore
were pending in comparison to 47,911 cases on 1.4.1998;
(b) if so, the number of those cases and since been
adjudicated and the amount of excise duty recovered;
(c) the position of pending adjudication cases as on
April 1, 2000 and March 1,2001 and money involved therein;
(d) whether Chief Commissioners and Commissioners of
Central Excise were asked by the Government for time
bound disposal of the cases but those authorities have miserably failed in the execution of the orders; and
(e) if so, the concrete measures the Government propose
to take to liquidate the pending adjudicated excise cases
and to check the large scale evasion of excise duty all over the country?