Question : UNACCOUNTED FUNDS WITH AIIMS



(a) whether the Audit Report 2004-05 prepared by the Director General of Audit, Central Revenue shows that funds worth crores are lying unaccounted with the AIIMS;

(b) if so, the details thereof;

(c) whether according to the report during the last five years there was excess of income over expenditure;

(d) if so, whether the Government has examined this report;

(e) whether a number of members submitted a memorandum to the PM for scrapping the user charges at AIIMS;

(f) if so, the action taken thereon;

(g) whether a demand has also been made to investigate into an unauthorized fund of over Rs. 30 crores being maintained in the AIIMS; and

(h) if so, the details thereof and the action taken/proposed to be taken by the Government in this regard?

Answer given by the minister

THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH & FAMILY WELFARE (SMT. PANABAKA LAKSHMI)

(a) to (h): The details are being collected and the same will be laid on the Table of the House.