Hry Govt Depts Urged to Act on Pending Audit Paras Without Delay

Non-Compliance With Audit Rules Hampers Legislative Oversight, Says Finance Dept

- HT Correspondent

CHANDIGARH: Committees of Haryana assembly have raised serious concerns over the delays by government departments in submitting replies to audit paras of reports of the comptroller and auditor general (CAG), public accounts committee (PAC) and committee on public undertakings (CoPU), leading to significant backlogs.

A communication from the Haryana finance department on June 5 highlighted the assembly committees' expressed concern about the incomplete and factually incorrect replies to the paras in CAG, PAC and CoPU reports. In response, the finance department has asked the government departments to respond to the audit paras without further delay. "This needs settlement at the earliest," the communication said.

The FD report also pointed out that the 91st report of the PAC pointed out there were 1,653 recommendations that are still pending, awaiting final implementation. Similarly, the 71st CoPU report identified that there were 265 recommendations yet to be addressed.