Audit Reports

Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM) in urban areas has emerged as one of the biggest challenges that our country faces today. The situation is aggravated by rapid urbanisation. Inadequate management of waste has significant negative externalities in terms of public health and.........

in solid waste management The framework for administration and management of SWM in India is broadly divided into three tiers - Central, State and Urban Local Bodies (ULBs). Other stakeholders that play a crucial role are households, businesses, industries, informal sector, non-governmental.........

to Government (ACS), UDD Secretary to Government, UDD Commissioner, BBMP Director, Municipal Administration Director, Town Plannin g Director, Urban Land Trans port City Corporation City Municipal Councils Town Panchayats Town Municipal Councils Appendices 75 Appendix 2.1 (Reference:.........

Raw Material AIILSG All India Institute of Local Self Government, Pune AMC Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation AMRUT Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation BBMP Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike BMW Bio-medical Waste BRIMS Bidar Institute of Medical Sciences C&D Construction and.........

vii Executive summary Municipal Solid Waste Management in urban areas has emerged as one of the biggest challenges that our country faces today. The situation is aggravated by rapid urbanisation. Inadequate.........

from:  The Municipal Solid Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2000 and Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 and respective Manuals (Ministry of Urban Development);  The Bio-medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 1998 and Bio- medical Waste Management Rules, 2016;  The Plastic.........

and classification of waste 1 1.2 Process of waste management 1 1.3 Regulatory framework governing management of waste 1 1.4 Status of devolution in urban governance 2 1.5 Role of urban local bodies in solid waste management 4 Chapter II Audit framework 2.1 Audit objectives 5 2.2 Audit criteria 5.........

Inefficient waste collection has an impact on public health and aesthetics of urban areas. Waste collection service is divided into primary and secondary collection. Sections 10.3 and 10.4 of Manual on MSWM, 2000, state that ULBs shall arrange for the collection of domestic, trade and.........

2. The Report covering the period 2012-17 contains the results of performance audit of ‘Solid Waste Management in Urban Local Bodies’. 3. Audit has been conducted in conformity with the Auditing Standards issued by the Comptroller and Auditor General of.........

To cite an example, scrutiny of the property tax return of a building belonging to Ballari Urban Development Authority with a built up area of 10,880 sq. ft. and housing 128 shops showed that the SWM cess paid during the period 2013-14 to 2015-16 was `2,400 per year (@ `200 per month for.........

The Government, through Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development and Finance Corporation (KUIDFC), also produced two documentary films on SWM (a) for general awareness and (b) exclusively on municipal landfill, for creating awareness and educating ULBs. We observed that these booklets and.........

69 Chapter IX Conclusion The status of devolution of funds for urban governance disclosed that ULBs are dependent on Central/State Governments. In addition, the ULBs do not have powers to appoint personnel –.........

2 Through enactment of Force Fire Bill on 1 October 1985 in the State Legislature. 3 Urban-82 and Rural-42. 4 Ambagan, Narauyanpur, Baghmara, Ratabari, Demow and Borhola (all rural FSs). 5 Though 36 fire stations notified by the GoA in May 2015, the same were yet to be sanctioned. Audit.........

CHAPTER V Performance audit of “Utilisation of 13 th and 14 th Finance Commission Grants by Urban Local Bodies” Executive Summary The 13 th Finance commission was constituted on 13 November 2007 to make recommendations for the period.........

Chapter-IV An Overview of the Functioning, Accountability Mechanism and Financial Reporting issues of Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) An Overview of the Functioning of the ULBs in the State 4.1 Introduction The 74 th Constitutional Amendment, enacted as.........

was constituted in April 2010 with an objective to improve the finances and enlarging the functional canvas of Panchayati Raj Institutions(PRIs) and Urban Local Bodies (ULBs). G overnment of Assam (GoA) released `999.62 crore to PRIs during 2011-12 to 2016-17 under 4 th ASFC grants as salary,.........

chapters contain an overview of the Functioning, Accountability Mechanism and Financial Reporting issues of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) and Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) r espectively. The second and third chapters contain a Performance Audit of “Implementation of r ecommendations of.........

State are divided into two parts - a grant to duly constituted gram panchayats and a grant to duly constituted municipa lities on the basis of the urban and rural population of the States, using the data of Census 2011. An amount of `5416.58 crore was recommended for the PRIs in Assam. This.........

March 2009) Admin istrative Approval and financial sanction of `2.02 crore for the project “Storm Water Drainage” a t Gossaigaon Town under the Urban Infrastructure Development Schemes for Small & Medium Towns under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission during 2009-20 10. The.........

in Sonitpur Zilla Parishad 3.5 51 Avoidable extra expenditure in Kamrup Zilla Parisha d 3.6 52 Audit Report on Local Bodies for the year 2016-17 ii URBAN LOCAL BODIES CHAPTER-IV An Overview of the Functioning, Accountability Mechanism and Financial Reporting issues of Urban Local Bodies (ULBs).........

The Report contains significant results of the audi t of the Panchayati Raj Institutions and Urban Local Bodies in the State, i ncluding the departments concerned. The issues noticed in the course of test audit for the period 2016-17, as well as those issues which came to notice in earlier yea.........