GURUGRAM: An audit by the Principal Accountant General (PAG), Haryana has revealed that MCG spent a whopping Rs 1.71 crore on purchase of over two lakh plants that were planted outside its jurisdiction between December 2013 and August 2014. And if this wasn’t enough, it was further revealed in the audit that MCG spent an additional amount of Rs 59.57 lakh to plant these trees.According to the audit report, the Gurgaon divisional commissioner has conducted an enquiry into this, while a vigilance report is still pending.According to sources, a team of MCG officials had gone to places like Kadiyam in Andhra Pradesh to purchase these plants.“There is a lot of scope of corruption in plantation drives as it is quite easy to claim that the plants did not survive due to the extreme weather conditions here. Also it is very hard to keep a count of all the trees that have been planted. The PAG audit has revealed that most of the trees were planted outside the MCG area, which in itself is very surprising as other departments like Huda also do plantation drive in their own jurisdiction and there was no need for MCG to plant trees outside its territory. The vigilance report against the MCG officials is still awaited,” said a MCG official.S K Sharma, who got the audit report through RTI said strict action needs to be taken against those responsible for this expenditure.“Only public money has been wasted and all those involved should be held responsible,” said Sharma.