Audit Reports

We conducted a performance audit on working of Commissionerates. Divisions and Ranges. Our sample comprised 46 commissionerates, 95 divisions and 204 ranges. We evaluated whether the measures to broaden the sen ice tax base, the monitoring mechanism ...

Incidents of sabotage on the Indian Railways (IR) have increased in frequency and intensity in the last five years. This along with frequent disruptions in rail traffic during agitations has seriously affected the public's faith in the Railway...

We conducted a performance audit on the 'Export Promotion Capital Goods Scheme' (EPCG] to evaluate the adequacy of the provisions of Foreign Trade Policy, Customs Act and related instructions and to assess their proper implementation in issue of...

This section contains a performance audit of Service Tax on 'Banking and other Financial Services'. We conducted a performance audit to evaluate the adequacy of provisions of the Finance Act, 1994, Service Tax Rules and related instructions in...

Direct tax collections, amounting to RS 4.35 lakh crore accounted for three-fourth of revenue receipts of the Government of India in 2009-10. At the same time the uncollected portion of tax demand was RS 2.29 lakh crore in March 2010 equivalent to...

India is a major maritime nation with vital economic and security interests linked to the seas.  Establishment of the Indian Coast Guard as a new service in August 1978 was the result of an awareness in the Government of India for the...

The construction industry has emerged as an important driver of India's economic growth - both in terms of its share of GDP and its contribution towards employment generation. A number of tax concessions are given to entities in this sector. An...

Industrial sickness has far-reaching consequences on the economy of the nation which generally results in substantial loss of revenue to the Government, loss of production and productivity, large-scale unemployment and industrial unrest, undermining ...

Coal India Limited (CIL) is one of the largest coal producing companies in the world with a total production of 431.32 million metric tonnes of coal in 2010-11. CIL has eight wholly owned subsidiaries.1 As of March 31,2011, it operated 470 mines in...

The Shipping Corporation of India Limited (Company), a Navratna PSU under the Ministry of Shipping, GOI, is the country's largest shipping Company, and owns around one third of the Gross Tonnage of Indian fleet. The fleet strength of the Company...