Nagaland's Tourism Department paid contractors ₹1.36 crore for completed projects. A joint physical verification found zero actual works. The measurement books, however, were immaculate.
The CAG report tabled in the Nagaland Legislature on March 26, 2026 reveals a state government operating in a parallel universe where infrastructure exists only on paper. A Tourism Sub-Divisional Officer recorded "fictitious execution of works" in measurement books and paid ₹1.36 crore to contractors — a joint inspection by auditors and departmental officials confirmed none of the work was actually done. The PWD (Roads & Bridges) in Phek pulled the same trick at larger scale: ₹5.86 crore for short-executed works based on fabricated measurements. Meanwhile, a ₹48.63 crore compost facility in Kohima has never processed a single kilogram of waste, and not one Urban Local Body in the state owns a weighbridge — meaning Nagaland literally does not know how much garbage it produces. The state processed just 6.5% of collected waste. When your tourism department is better at creating fictional attractions than real ones, you might actually have an avant-garde performance art scene nobody asked for.