Audit Reports
Haryana
Report No.5 of 2017 – Social,General and Economic SectorsGovernment of Haryana
Overview
The Report contains two Performance Audits (PAs) and 23 paragraphs relating to excess, unfruitful expenditure, avoidable payment and shortcomings in implementation of rules and programmes involving money value of `681.26crore. An amount of `5.60 crore was recovered in 45 cases during 2016-17 by various departments after being pointed out by the Audit through Inspection Reports.
PA on Working of Maharshi Dayanand University brought out lack of planning, deficiencies in financial management, non-enforcement of infrastructure and academic standards in affiliated colleges, manpower and infrastructure deficiencies in the classes which impaired the ability of the University to achieve its overall objectives. A performance audit of management of jails in Haryana brought out deficiencies in planning, financial management, providing safety, security, facilities and privileges to prisoners and their rehabilitation which undermined the objectives of the Department.
There were instances of non-realisation of claims from Food Corporation of India and extra burden of interest, unfruitful expenditure on water harvesting structure and construction of community centre, irregular expenditure on publicity and advertisement, non-utilisation of funds on welfare schemes for construction workers, idle expenditure on incomplete work, irregularities in procurement of chlorination plants and construction and maintenance of State Highways, irregularities in Rejuvenation of River Ganga, irregularities in development of infrastructure in technical institutes for Skill Development, failure to recover Government dues from a defaulter developer, idle expenditure, incomplete recycled sewerage water distribution pipeline, irregular grant of Commercial Colony License, excess purchase of pipes,undue favour to agency, irregularities in construction of toilets under Swachh Bharat Mission and suspected fraudulent payment of scholarships.