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Report No. 1 of the year 2023:- Compliance Audit Report-2 for the year ended 31 March 2021

Date on which Report Tabled:
Wed 22 Mar, 2023
Date of sending the report to Government
Thu 16 Feb, 2023
Government Type
State
Sector Social Welfare

Overview

OVERVIEW

The Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) on the Compliance Audit Report-2 of the Government of Haryana for the year ended 31 March 2021 contains three Subject Specific Compliance Audit of District Plan Scheme, Transfer of Municipal Duty levied as part of Stamp Duty to the Municipal Bodies, Implementation of Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) Scheme and 17 paragraphs relating to excess, irregular, unfruitful expenditure, avoidable payments, losses to State Government, shortcomings in implementation of rules and programmes, etc.

Subject Specific Compliance Audit of District Plan Audit

There has been a significant decline in the allocation amount in the progressive years from 2018-19 to 2020-21 i.e. from ₹ 700 crore in 2018-19 to ₹ 200 crore in 2020-21. District Plans were prepared and sent to HQ with considerable delay which delayed start of work and consequential lapse of funds. Funds were allocated to various Chief Planning and Development Officers (CPDOs) in lump sum and on a discretionary basis without assessing their actual requirement and identifying the underlying purpose for which funds were required to be utilised.

Subject Specific Compliance Audit of transfer of Municipal Duty levied as part of Stamp Duty to the Municipal Bodies

The outstanding Municipal Levy at the end of year due to Municipal Bodies ranged between ₹ 663.35 crore (at the end of March 2018) to ₹ 2,178.98 crore (at end of March 2021) during 2016-17 to 2020-21. There were delays in transfer of funds to Municipal Bodies and deficiencies/absence of internal controls in the entire processes adopted by the various functionalities of State Government were observed.

Subject Specific Compliance Audit of Implementation of Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) Scheme

Due to improper identification, non-verification and lapses in monitoring of PM-KISAN scheme, benefits amounting to ₹ 131.40 lakh were disbursed to State Government Pensioners. Besides, there was non-recovery of amount disbursed to ineligible beneficiaries, non-receipt of administrative expenses amounting ₹ 420.38 lakh, non-setting up of Project Monitoring Unit and non-achieving of target of physical verification.

Compliance Audit Paragraphs include instances of suspected embezzlement, unfruitful and recovery of liquidated damages, irregularities in tender assessments, irregular payments to contractors on account of development works, Irregularities in payment of pensioners/family pensioners, loss due to less claim and delay in submission of claims, loss of revenue alongwith avoidable extra expenditure thereof, were noticed.

 

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