The CAG has pulled up Jammu and Kashmir's social welfare department for failing to successfully implement its flagship schemes in the state.

Financial mismanagement, non-adherence of eligibility criteria, lack of monitoring and proper planning resulted in failure in implementing the flagship programmes of the department, the report tabled in the state Assembly said.

The programmes largely failed to meet the expectations with one major scheme failing completely, said the recent CAG report for the year end March 31, 2009.

Unnecessary retention of huge undisbursed money in bank accounts and delays in finalising rate of contract in nutritive items under integrated child development scheme persisted, it said.

"The financial management was poor. The contributory factors attributable to failure of the schemes include lack of proper planning, non-release of funds, non-adherence of eligibility criteria and lack of supervision and monitoring."

It said the targets for the National Social Assistance Programme, a centrally sponsored scheme for old-age persons, were not achieved at all.

The department also failed to implement Contributory Social Security Scheme, aimed at benefiting marginal workers in 20-50 age group, the report said.

The CAG said there was extremely low percentage of achievement which indicated the dismal performance of the scheme in the state. As against the target of 53,300 marginal workers, the department could achieve a target of just 3427 workers with 94 per cent shortfall in achievement of targets in 2008-09.

Similarly, against a target of 13,300 workers, department could only implement scheme for just 1,889 persons with 86 per cent shortfall in achievement of targets in 2007-08 and 75 per cent and 86 per cent shortfall in targets in 2006-07 and 2005-06, respectively, it said.

District Social Welfare Officers retained assistance of Rs 78.15 crore for a period ranging from 7 to 366 days despite recommendations of the public accounts committee to evolve a mechanism for timely disbursement of assistance under the schemes, it said.

It also pulled up the department for its failure to submit utilisation certificates for an amount of Rs 27.67 crore under various schemes and pointed out huge unspent balance at the end of each financial year.

The supplementary nutrition under integrated child development scheme was not provided to all beneficiaries from 2005-09 and shortfall ranged between 7 to 40 per cent, it said adding the health check up and other referral services were not provided to Jammu division at all.