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SME Times News Bureau | 12 Feb, 2019
The Finance Ministry violated its own instructions in two cases about
prior approval of CAG before concurring with re-appropriation orders for
increasing funds under "Secret Service Expenditure", an audit report
tabled in Lok Sabha said on Tuesday.
The report of the
Comptroller and Auditor General for 2017-18 said the Finance Ministry
had stated earlier that any re-appropriation of funds, which increases
the provision ‘41-Secret Service Expenditure' by 25 per cent or more of
the original provision in the grant, should be done only with the prior
approval of CAG.
"The audit observed two instances where
Ministry of Finance violated its own orders regarding prior approval of
CAG before re-appropriation," the report said.
It said total
original provision as a whole under ‘41-Secret Service Expenditure'
pertaining to police under Home Ministry for 2017-18 was Rs 163.65
crore.
The report said that Home Ministry issued a
re-appropriation order of Rs 150 crore in January last year to increase
the provision under the above object head with the approval of the
Finance Ministry.
Citing another instance, the report said the
original provision pertaining to 'cabinet' under Home Ministry was only
Rs 5 crore. It said the Home Ministry issued a re-appropriation
order on February 7 last year of Rs 1.25 crore to increase the
provision under object head ‘41-Secret Service Expenditure' with
approval of Finance Ministry.
In its reply to the Comptroller
and Auditor General, the ministry said that it is the responsibility of
the department concerned to get the approval of the CAG before
re-appropriation.
"The reply is not acceptable, as it is the
responsibility of Ministry of Ministry of Finance to ensure that the
increase in secret service expenditure over the Budget provision concurs
with the prior approval of the CAG," said the report.
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