This Report for the year ended March 2015 has been prepared for submission to the Governor of Nagaland under Article 151(2) of the Constitution of India. The Report contains significant results of the performance audit and compliance audit of the Departments of the Government of Nagaland under the Social, Economic, Revenue and General Sectors including the Departments of Youth Resources and Sports, School Education, Labour and Employment, Social Welfare, Rural Development, Public Works, Forest, Ecology, Environment and Wildlife, Agriculture and Allied Departments and National Highways.
The cases mentioned in this Report are those which came to notice in the course of test audit during the year 2014-15 as well as those which came to notice in earlier years, but could not be reported in the previous Reports; instances relating to the period subsequent to 2014-15 have also been included, wherever necessary. The audits have been conducted in conformity with the Auditing Standards issued by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
This Report is arranged in six chapters and contains three Performance Audits under Social Sector (Chapter I) viz., 'Functioning of Youth Resource and Sports Department', 'Implementation of ‘Mid-Day Meal Scheme', ‘Functioning of Industrial Training Institute’ and five Performance Audits under Economic Sector (Chapter II) 'Implementation of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadhak Yojana (PMGSY)', 'Functioning of State Pollution Control Board', 'Working of Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency', 'Special Accelerated Road Development Programme (SARDP)' and 'Backward Regions Grant Fund (BRGF)'. There are eleven compliance audit paragraphs. According to the existing arrangements, copies of the draft audit paragraphs and draft performance audits were sent to the Secretary of the departments concerned by the Accountant General (Audit) with a request to furnish replies within six weeks. Replies were not received from the Secretaries of the Departments concerned in respect of five audit paragraphs.