Sindh's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is learnt to have detected anomalies worth Rs 430 million in audit accounts of 11 district government departments of Tando Allahyar, Shikarpur, Jamshoro, Kashmore-Kandhkot and elsewhere. This is for the first time that audit reports of district governments were scrutinised after their establishment. The PAC meeting was held after a gap of a few months here on Wednesday under Jam Tamachi Unarr.
The meeting, held to review audit paras for the Financial Year 2010-11, was attended among others by deputy commissioners (DCs) of districts concerned. Deputy commissioners of Jamshoro and Shaikarpur did not attend the meeting. Expressing anger over their absence, Jam Tamachi Unarr asked the secretary PAC to write a letter to the Chief Secretary Sindh to take action against the absent bureaucrats.
Audit officials briefed the PAC about anomalies worth Rs 430 million in health, education, buildings, transport, roads, police, rehabilitation, revenue, Hesco, excise and taxation and highways departments. On the issue of Community Boards, Jam Tamachi Unarr said that 90 percent of budgets set aside for community boards had been embezzled by "district officials and others".
He asked all DCs to submit the record of funds for community boards in the next meeting. Several of the bureaucrats concerned were not prepared to explain audit paras. In response, PAC members gave them a 10-day deadline for preparation. Jam Tamachi Unarr told this correspondent that this was the first time in the history of district governments that the PAC had called up representatives of district governments over audit issues.
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