AUDIT REPORT ON THE ACCOUNTS OF TEHSIL MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATIONS RAJANPUR AUDIT YEAR 2015-16 AUDITOR GENERAL OF PAKISTAN TABLE OF CONTENTS ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS .............................................................i Preface .................................................................................................................. ii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ................................................................................ iii SUMMARY TABLES AND CHARTS ........................................................... vii Table 1: Audit Work Statistics ............................................................................ vii Table 2: Audit observations regarding Financial Management .......................... vii Table 3: Outcome Statistics ................................................................................ viii Table 4: Irregularities Pointed Out ........................................................................ix Table 5: Cost-Benefit ............................................................................................ix CHAPTER-1 ......................................................................................................... 1 1.1 TEHSIL MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATIONS, RAJANPUR ..................... 1 1.1.1 Introduction ................................................................................................... 1 1.1.2 Comments on Budget and Accounts ............................................................. 1 1.1.3 Brief Comments on the Status of Compliance on MFDAC Audit Paras of Audit Report 2014-15 ................................................................................... 3 1.1.4 Brief Comments on the Status of Compliance with PAC Directives ........... 4 AUDIT PARAS ..................................................................................................... 5 1.2 Tehsil Municipal Administration Rajanpur ................................................. 6 1.3 Tehsil Municipal Administration Jampur .................................................. 24 1.4 Tehsil Municipal Administration Rojhan .................................................. 43 Annex ................................................................................................................... 51 Annex-A ............................................................................................................... 52 Annex-B ............................................................................................................... 59 Annex-C ............................................................................................................... 60 Annex-D ............................................................................................................... 62 Annex-E ............................................................................................................... 68 Annex-F ................................................................................................................ 73 Annex-G ............................................................................................................... 74 Annex-H ............................................................................................................... 76 Annex-I ................................................................................................................. 77 Annex-J ................................................................................................................ 80 Annex-K ............................................................................................................... 81 Annex-L ............................................................................................................... 83 Annex-M .............................................................................................................. 84 Annex-N ............................................................................................................... 85 Annex-O ............................................................................................................... 87 Annex-P ................................................................................................................ 88 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS AIR Audit and Inspection Report B&R Building & Road CCTV Closed Circuit Television CDR Call Deposit Receipt CPW Central Public Works DAC Departmental Accounts Committee FBR Federal Board of Revenue IPSAS International Public Sector Accounting Standards LG & CD Local Government and Community Development MB Measurement Book MFDAC Memorandum for Departmental Accounts Committee PAC Public Accounts Committee PAO Principal Accounting Officer PDG&TMA Punjab District Government and Tehsil Municipal Authority PEPCO Pakistan Electric Power Company PFR Punjab Financial Rules PLGO Punjab Local Government Ordinance, 2001 PPRA Punjab Procurement Regulatory Authority RDA Regional Director Audit S&GAD Services and General Administration Department TMA Tehsil Municipal Administration TMO Tehsil Municipal Officer TO (I&S) Tehsil Officer (Infrastructure & Services) TO (P&C) Tehsil Officer (Planning & Coordination) TO (R) Tehsil Officer (Regulation) TSE Technically Sanctioned Estimate UA Union Administration WSS Water Supply Scheme XEN Executive Engineer i Preface Articles 169 and 170 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973 and Section 115 of the Punjab Local Government Ordinance, 2001 require the Auditor General of Pakistan to conduct the audit of the receipts and the expenditure of the Local Fund and Public Accounts of Tehsil / Town Municipal Administrations of the Districts. The report is based on Audit of the accounts of Tehsil Municipal Administrations of District Rajanpur for the Financial Year 2014-15. The Directorate General of Audit District Governments Punjab (South), Multan, conducted audit during Audit Year 2015-16 on test check basis with a view to reporting significant findings to relevant stakeholders. The main body of Audit Report includes only the systemic issues and audit findings carrying value of Rs 1 million or more. Relatively less significant issues are listed in the Annex-A of the Audit Report. The Audit observations listed in the Annex-A shall be pursued with the Principal Accounting Officer at the DAC level and in all cases where the PAO does not initiate appropriate action, the Audit observations will be brought to the notice of the Public Accounts Committee through the next year’s Audit Report. Audit findings indicate the need for adherence to the regularity framework besides instituting and strengthening internal controls to avoid recurrence of similar violations and irregularities. The observations included in this Report have been finalized in the light of written responses of the management concerned. The Audit Report is submitted to the Governor of the Punjab in pursuance of Article 171 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973 read with Section 115 of the Punjab Local Government Ordinance 2001, for causing it to be laid before the Provincial Assembly. Islamabad (Imran Iqbal) Dated: Auditor General of Pakistan ii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Directorate General Audit, District Governments, Punjab (South), Multan, a Field Audit Office of the Auditor General of Pakistan is mandated to carry out the audit of all District Governments in Punjab (South) including Town / Tehsil Municipal Administration. The Regional Directorate of Audit (RDA), D.G. Khan has audit jurisdiction of District Governments, TMAs and UAs of four Districts i.e. D.G. Khan, Rajanpur, Layyah and Muzaffargarh. The Regional Directorate has a human resource of 23 officers and staff, constituting 3,930 mandays and the budget amounting to Rs 13.429 million was allocated in Audit Year 2015-16. The office is mandated to conduct financial attest audit, audit of sanctions, audit of compliance with authority and audit of receipts as well as the performance audit of the entities, projects and programmes. Accordingly, RDA D.G.Khan carried out audit of the accounts of TMAs of District Rajanpur for the Financial Year 2014-15 and the findings included in the Audit Report. Each Tehsil Municipal Administrations in District Rajanpur is headed by a Tehsil Nazim / Administrator who carries out operations as per Punjab Local Government Ordinance, 2001. TMO is the Principal Accounting Officer (PAO) and acts as coordinating and administrative officer, responsible to control land use, its division and development and to enforce all laws including Municipal Laws, Rules and By-laws. The PLGO 2001 requires the establishment of Tehsil / Town Local Fund and Public Account for which Annual Budget Statement is authorized by the Tehsil Nazim / Tehsil Council / Administrator in the form of Budgetary Grants. The total Development Budget of three TMAs in District Rajanpur, for the Financial Year 2014-15, was Rs 152.638 million and expenditure amounting to Rs 112.905 million was incurred showing savings of Rs 39.733 million. Total Non Development Budget for Financial Year 2014-15 was Rs 446.746 million and expenditure amounting to Rs 279.428 million was incurred showing saving of Rs 167.318 million. The reasons for savings in Development and Non development Budgets are required to be provided by the TMOs/ PAOs concerned. iii Audit of TMAs of District Rajanpur was carried out with the view to ascertaining that the expenditure was made with proper authorization, in conformity with laws/ rules/ regulations, economical procurement