Audit Reports

Background The Ratna and R Series (R&RS) medium sized hydrocarbon fields are located in the Western Offshore area (at an average water depth of 45 metres) 130 kilometres southwest of Mumbai city. These fields were discovered and partially...

Introduction National Skill Development Fund (NSDF) and National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) were created after approval of the Union Cabinet to stimulate and coordinate private sector initiative in the skill development sector. NSDC was...

Drilling activities are key to hydrocarbon production and reserve accretion and constitute the single most significant operation of an upstream oil exploration company, both financially and operationally. A performance audit of utilisation of rigs...

Introduction Private sector participation in hydrocarbon exploration and production (E&P) in India dates back to the Government of India’s decision of 1991 to invite foreign and domestic private sector companies to participate in the...

Why did we select this subject for audit? India supports around 17 per cent of the world’s population but its energy and electricity consumption is only around five per cent of the world’s consumption. Its per capita consumption of energy and...

A performance audit was conducted to assess the extent of clarity in the policy guidelines for land management in major ports and whether these were consistently and uniformly applied across the ports. The manner of implementation of the guidelines...

In India, the Railways are the most preferred mode of transport both for the movement of people and goods consignments in bulk. Indian Railways aimed at zero tolerance to accidents through implementation of Corporate Safety Plan (CSP) (2003-13) and...

We conducted the Performance Audit on assessees providing Works Contract Services, to seek an assurance that the indirect tax administration is adequately placed to safeguard the interests of revenue. We examined that, the Rules and extant...

There are seven Union Territories (UTs) specified under Part II of the First Schedule to the Constitution of India, viz., Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu, Lakshadweep, National Capital Territory...

The total expenditure of the Defence Services during the year 2013-14 was Rs. 2,09,789 crore. Of this, the Navy spent Rs.33,831 crore, which constituted approximately 16.13 per cent of the total Defence Expenditure. The major portion of the...