Audit Reports

the cost of material under notification dated 20 June 2003 is not availed of and (iii) the gross amount charged from customers in respect of erection contracts involving structures, includes the value of structures, parts or any other material sold during the course of providing such service.............

(Paragraph 3.8) No. 24 of 2011-12 (Defence Services) x Loss due to non-inclusion of laid down clause in wheat grinding contracts Improper provision in the wheat grinding contracts concluded by the Major General Army Service Corps of two Army Commands resulted in less receipt of atta and............

It excludes contracts for roads, airports, railways transport terminals, bridges, tunnels and dams. Report No. 29 of 2011-12 - Union Government (Indirect Taxes – Service Tax) 17 related to transportation of goods by road services (as recipient) during the period from October 2009 to March 2010............

South Western Railway (SWR) and Northern Railway (NR) awarded three (SWR- two and NR-one) leasing contracts for Parcel Cargo Express trains to private operators during March 2009 to August 2010. Audit scrutiny of records revealed that these parcel trains made a total number of 184 single............

furnace 4.1 19 Idle expenditure on procurement of X-ray Baggage Inspection System 4.2 20 CHAPTER V – MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT Department of Secondary Education Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan Unfruitful expenditure 5.1 21 Premature release of funds 5.2 22 Department of Higher............

payment of escalation charges to the contractors In contravention of provisions of Defence Works Procedure 2007, the Chief Engineers concluded contracts incorporating price variation clause in tender documents based on clarifications issued by Engineer-in-chief leading to inadmissible............

In respect of the back to back contracts entered into by Antrix with the DTH service providers for foreign satellite capacity, Antrix charged commission of 7.5 per cent from the DTH service providers. Though DOS offered substantial technical support in the allocation and leasing of satellite............

We recommend that the department should institute a suitable control mechanism to get assurance on the reliability of the data furnished in APRs and ensure their timely submission.  We identified several instances wh ere exporters did not fulfil their obligations and other manda tory............

We found that the consumers were overcharged Rs. 9.82 crore in 17 cases by way of non reduction of medicine prices. ¾ The Department officers have to do an initial scrutiny of all the returns and thereafter a detailed scrutiny upto five per cent of total returns received is to be done............

Audit observed that during three years ended 31 March 2009 in 54 per cent cases the Company awarded contracts after 75 days and upto 300 days and in 13 per cent cases the time taken was more than 300 days. As per policy, repeat orders, without calling for fresh tenders could be placed............