PREFATORY REMARKSThis Report for the year ended March 2001 has been prepared for submission to the President of India under Article 151(1) of the Constitution. It relates to matters arising from test-audit of financial transactions of the Ministry of Communications. So far as the Department of Telecommunications is concerned, the transactions have been checked up to 30 September 2000. This was because Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited was incorporated on 15 September 2000 as a company with limited liability by shares under the Companies Act, 1956 with its registered and corporate office in New Delhi, and the business of providing telecommunications services in the country, entrusted to the Department of Telecom Services (DTS) and Department of Telecom Operations (DTO), was transferred to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited with effect from 1 October 2000. The Report contains 65 paragraphs including five comprehensive performance reviews. The section pertaining to the Department of Telecommunications contains:
14 Paragraphs and two comprehensive performance reviews on Speed Post Services and working of Postal Accounts offices are included in the section pertaining to the Department of Posts. The Draft Audit Paragraphs (DAPs) and draft comprehensive performance reviews were forwarded to the Secretary Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and the Secretary Department of Posts (DoP) for furnishing their replies within six weeks. While Secretary DoP did not furnish replies to two DAPs and to one comprehensive performance review issued to him, Secretary DoT did not furnish replies to 60 DAPs including three comprehensive performance reviews, out of 119 DAPs including three comprehensive performance reviews issued to him. The cases mentioned in the Report are among those, which came to notice in the course of audit conducted during the year 2000-01 and early part of the 2001-02. It also includes cases noticed during earlier years wherever relevant. |