This Report contains significant audit findings which arose from the compliance audit of financial transactions of Civil Ministries/ Departments and Autonomous Bodies. It contains XVIII chapters. Chapter I gives a brief introduction while Chapters II to XVII present detailed audit observations. Chapter XVIII presents a summarised position of the Action Taken Notes furnished by the Ministries to the
Audit Reports of the earlier years and status of replies received from the Ministries to the paragrahs included in this Report.
Some of the important findings included in this Report are given below :
Ministry of Commerce and Industries,Export Inspection Council of India ,Avoidable expenditure due to non-collection of service tax
Indecision of the Export Inspection Council of India in timely directing the Export Inspection Agencies for collection of service tax on inspection and certification services from the exporters of notified commodities
resulted in a loss of ` 9.98 crore.