HR&CE not cooperating with audit of assets: Report

THE CAG has accused the state government of refusing to cooperate for an audit of assets belonging to temples managed by the HR&CE department.

- EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @Chennai

In its compliance audit report that was tabled in the Tamil Nadu Assembly on Tuesday, the CAG said that a special audit was proposed to be conducted in May 2022 for the 2019-2022 period since there were frequent media reports about the loss of temple properties.

However, the HR&CE department objected to the audit stating that there was no jurisdiction for scrutiny of records pertaining to religious institutions, the report mentioned.

The issue was taken up with the principal secretary of the department and later with the chief secretary twice in 2022.