Senate committee seeks audit paras of 10 organistaions

AAG says some institutions refused to have their accounts audited by the Accountant General.

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs on Wednesday directed Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) to submit a detailed report on the Audit Paras of top 10 organisations observed.

The Committee, which met here with Senator Nasreen Jalil in chair, said that the report of those 10 organisation whose maximum audit para observed for the past three years should be presented.

The Additional Auditor General of Pakistan (AAGP) told the committee that the AGP has carried out the audit of approximately 9000 federal, provincial and districts entities. The audited outlays totalled up to Rs4.474 trillion representing revenue receipts, disbursements and expenditure, he said adding recovery of about Rs25.72 billion was made at the instance of audit in 2011-12. The expenditure for this recovery was Rs2.424 billion. While recovery of about Rs70.64 billion was made during 2010-11 on the expenditure of Rs1.59 billion, the AADG further informed the committee.

The committee was further informed that there were still some organisations who were denying that they be audited by the AAGP.

Senator Sughra Imam said that the deadlock of audit paras was forwarded to current government because of weak working of previous government to resolve pending audit paras.

All observed audit paras are to be handed over to PAC to settle. The committee was further informed that the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) had the option to take up latest audit paras observed by the AGP or earlier.

Currently, the PAC is discussing audit paras of 2006-7 observed by the AGP.

The meeting was attended by Senator Ilyas Ahmed Bilour, Osman Saifullah Khan, Syeda Sughra Imam and Islamuddin Shaikh.