The comptroller and auditor general has taken the Union health ministry to task for having invested Rs 21 crore on installing nearly 22,000 condom vending machines (CVMs), out of which 10,000 were found missing and another 1,100 weren’t working. 
Even the sale of condoms after the installation of CVMs, under a National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) project, was found to be way below projections, thus defeating the purpose for which the government had invested such a large sum on the machines, the CAG report said. 
“The CVM scheme by NACO was characterized by poor planning and implementation. The ministry did not undertake a comprehensive feasibility study … Consequently, the project was discontinued by NACO,” the report said.  (more…)