Kohima, March 24 (MExN): The audit reports of the Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG) of India on Government of Nagaland for the year ended 31st March 2011 (Report No. 1 & 2) said that failure to exercise statutory checks envisaged in receipts and payments rules on the part of 8th Treasury Officers and 25 Drawing and Disbursing Officers resulted in fraudulent drawal of Rs. 21.58 lakhs.
Failure of the treasury officer in exercising prescribed checks before accepting the bill allowed the Deputy Inspector of Schools, Longleng to fraudulently draw Rs. 14 lakh by inflating the pay scales and the percentage of Additional Dearness Allowances in respect of 48 employees. The report said Deputy Inspector of Schools, Mongkolemba fraudulently drew Rs. 12.05 lakh by manipulating the pay bills of 92 employees.
Failure on the part of Drawing and Disbursing officer and the treasury officer in exercising the statutory checks as envisaged by Rules resulted in fraudulent drawal of Rs. 11.51 lakh by the executive engineer, Tseminyu for the period from April 2010 to August 2010. The Report also stated that Additional deputy Commissioner (HQ), Office of the Comsmsio0ner, Nagaland drew a double claim of Rs. 10.01 lakh towards Ration Allowance for the month of February.
2010 in respect of Village Guards of Kiphire based on a Non-drawal certificate furnished by the Sub-Treasury Officer, Kiphire. Development Commissioner, planning & coordination paid an amount of Rs. 51.20 lakh to a society for unexecuted work based on fictitious completion certificates.
The Director of health and family welfare department made an avoidable excess payment of Rs. 2.26 crore to a contractor by ignoring the recommendation of the technical and steering committee coupled with faulty estimation of cost escalation.
The Executive Engineer, Civil Administrative Works Division incurred extra expenditure of Rs. 1.08 crore due to award of work to the bidder other than the lowest bidder. Arbitrary increase in quoted price by government at the time of approval of tender resulted in avoidable excess expenditure of Rs. 59.34 lakh. The director of horticulture paid Rs. 1.21 crore personal loan to three individuals by flouting financial rules and also without routing through the cash book.
A note received here said Chapter III deals with results of Integrated Audit of Public Works Department (Road & Bridges). It said the mandate of the Public Works Department (Roads & Bridges) is to plan, construct and maintain roads and bridges in the state of Nagaland. Out of the total length of road in Nagaland, the share of road under PWD (R&B) department worked out to 70 per cent. Integrated audit was conducted during May to October 2011 covering the period 2006-11. 21 major projects under 10 units and the office of the Chief Engineer, PWD (R&B) were test checked in audit. A performance review on implementation of the scheme revealed the following major deficiencies.
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