Irregularities of Rs1.28bn found in cultivation dept
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LAHORE: The auditor ubiquitous of Pakistan has unclosed misappropriation of supports value some-more than Rs1.28 billion in a Punjab Agriculture Department.
The find was done as authorities audited a news for FY2015-16. A duplicate of a report, accessible with The Express Tribune, showed that a dialect had also unsuccessful to contention Rs12.8 billion of resources in a timely manner.
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The news patrician ‘Audit Report on a Accounts of Government of a Punjab: Audit Year 2015-16′, showed that auditors wrote 1,343 paragraphs of irregularities, inapt use of funds, bad record supervision and miss of transparency. However, a dialect frequency complied with 62% of these objections.
Despite a high claims of a Punjab supervision of integrity and consequence in institutions, a news suggested that no record/vouched volume of Rs276.27 million was produced. According to a report, a review could not substantiate a output as a current assign to a exchequer due to a disaster to furnish records.
During a review of cultivation department, it was celebrated that an volume of Rs.230.93 million was spent on a squeeze of rural machine and gangling parts, though there was no announcement on a Punjab Procurement Regulatory Authority website or in a imitation media.
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It was also celebrated that daily work was hired during a cost of Rs16.72million though an capitulation of a financial dialect and though advertisement, that was in defilement of a above-stated rules. A remuneration of Rs2.79million was done by sketch income and distributing it to officers instead of a cheque.
The AGP news also showed that cultivatable land was not utilized scrupulously that resulted in a detriment to a balance of Rs15.49 in a figure of mislaid income. A H2O fountainhead was assembled during Koont Farm though watching specifications and it cost Rs20.50 million.
It also suggested that some expertise members of several universities were sent for PhD studies abroad. However, they possibly did not lapse or were incompetent to finish their. programmes that caused a Rs8.70 million loss. During a duration of 2008-15, it was celebrated that 2,676 acres of land was assigned by bootleg contractors (pattadars) and a people are than them assigned 68 acres of land. An volume of Rs628.49 million was recoverable from these bootleg occupants.
The review of a University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, for a year 2014-15, suggested that one techer of university sub-campus Toba Tek Singh supposing a feign MSc grade for appointment as a lecturer. As a outcome of a inquiry, his services were consummated by a associate on Sep 7, 2013. The associate motionless to redeem an volume of Rs1.62million from him, though a income is nonetheless to be returned..
The review of a cultivation dialect showed that a series of vehicles, bulldozers, and other store equipment value Rs48.98million were unserviceable or unusable. In a deficiency of suitable action, a condition on this machine was serve deteriorating.
Weak inner controls on supervision of resources and loosening in holding suitable movement could outcome in serve decrease and detriment to a open exchequer. The matter was forked out to a formations during a review conducted from Mar 2014 to Sep 2015.
The matter was reported to a executive department, though eventually delayed. The review endorsed that a auction routine be expedited and sale deduction deposited into a supervision treasury.
Published in The Express Tribune, Sep 21st, 2017.
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