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Report No. 13 of 2012 - Compliance Audit on Observations, Union Government(Civil)

Date on which Report Tabled:
Thu 30 Aug, 2012
Date of sending the report to Government:
Government Type:
Union
Union Department
Civil
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Sector General Sector Ministries and Constitutional Bodies

Overview

This Report contains significant audit findings which arose from the compliance audit of the financial transactions of Civil Ministries. It contains 12 chapters. Chapter I gives a brief introduction while Chapters II to XI present detailed audit observations. Chapter XII presents a summarised position of the Action Taken Notes furnished by the Ministries.

Disbursement of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) Wages through Post Offices With 4.90 crore NREGS accounts in operation, the Department of Posts provides a large network for disbursement of wages under NREGS. A significant amount of Rs.4284 crore was lying in workers accounts as on March 2011. Weak monitoring mechanisms, both at the Headquarters and Circle levels, along with non-observance of procedures in post offices,resulted in a shortfall to the tunc of Rs.1920 lakh as on 31 March 2011 in One Time Deposits required to be made by State Governments with Head Post Offices. Irregularities in the operation of NREGS accounts such as delays in disbursement of wages, opening of accounts without verification, incomplete data entry in ledgers, errors in data compilation, interest not credited and wages being disbursed without attestation of left hand thumb impressions of illiterate wage earners were also noticed.

The Department of Posts failed to follow the prescribed procedure for indenting and forecasting of cash certificates, stamps and postal stationery.This, coupled with a weak internal control mechanism, resulted in overstocking of cash certificates bearing face value of Rs.3840.66 crore and overstocking of stamps and postal stationery carrying face value of Rs.498.52 crore as on 31 March 2011, thereby exposing these valuables to the risk of misuse/pilferage and damage.Post offices in six circles failed to follow the provisions relating to the Public Provident Fund (PPF) Scheme, resulting in irregular payment of interest of Rs.2.26 crore to the subscribers.

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