OFFICE OF CHIEF CONTROLLER OF ACCOUNTS
MINISTRY OF SURFACE TRANSPORT
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
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The Internal Audit Wing is functioning under the control of Chief Controller of Accounts(CCA), Ministry of Surface Transport(MOST) .It conducts audit of the offices under the administrative control of the Ministry of Surface Transport in accordance with the provisions of Civil Accounts Manual. In addition to this, internal audit of National Highway divisions of PWD Of State/ Union Territory Govt. is conducted by Regional Pay and Accounts Officer(RPAO) functioning under the administrative control of Chief Controller of Accounts, M/o Surface Transport. These National Highway Divisions of the State/U.T. Governments are entrusted with the work of construction and maintenance of National Highways on behalf of this Ministry on agency basis. The periodicity of audit is fixed on the basis of size of the office being audited, their budget and functions. In general, audit of the offices is conducted on an annual basis. The duties of the Internal Audit are to ensure that initial records are maintained properly, uniform procedure is adopted in the matter of payments and accounting and corrective measures are taken, wherever necessary in order to improve the accounting system. Therefore, the main duty of the internal Audit Wing is to examine whether the Ministry, and its subordinates offices and PWD (NH) Divisions of State/Union Territory Govt. are functioning in accordance with the relevant Govt. Rules and procedure. In the process, it renders advise to the executive in record maintenance and other account related issues during the period of inspection. Reports of internal audit are a very handy feed back tool for management. The object of the internal audit is to ensure high standard of Public financial discipline, sound financial administration and devotion to the financial interest of the Govt. of India.
INTERNAL AUDIT DURING 1998-99 Total 317 Public Works Units dealing with National Highway works in the States/UTs, 67 units pertaining to various wings of the ministry (other than NH) and 17 bank branches fall under the purview of Internal audit. Ideally these units are to be audited every year, but due to the unavoidable reasons all the units could not be audited during 1998-99. 72 Public Works Divisions for National Highway work have been inspected and a total of 745 paras are raised during this year. There were 5894 paras outstanding at the beginning of this year. 54 units pertaining to other wings of the ministry (other than NH) have been audited during 1998-99.350 out of 1358 old Internal audit paras of other wings of MOST(other than NH Divisions) have been settled during the year of report. Internal audit of the bank branches has been undertaken recently and during this year 3 bank branches have been audited.
POSITION OF OUTSTANDING PARAS OF INTERNAL AUDIT WING (audit conducted for the various wings of the Ministry excluding state PWDs)
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