Sanghar DC snubs PAC, session ends without any progress
‘Irregularities of Rs140m have been found in Sanghar govt’s financial accounts’
Sanghar additional deputy commissioner revealed that the PAC had given two months' time to clear audit objections raised on financial irregularities. (Photo: File)
KARACHI:
Keeping on with the trend of disregarding the Public Accounts Committee's (PAC) orders, the bureaucrats did not show up at the provincial watchdog's recent session held in the Sindh Assembly's committee room on Wednesday.
Despite the Pakistan Peoples Party MNA Faryal Talpur attending the session on production orders, the PAC meeting, headed by PAC Chairman Ghulam Qadir Chandio, lasted no longer than 10 minutes due to the Sanghar deputy commissioner's absence.
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The latter was required to submit a working paper to the committee. The agenda for the meeting included the announcement of the verdict on audit objections for the fiscal year 2004, which wasn't declared due to the deputy commissioner's absence.
Chandio said that the PAC will direct the anti-corruption department to register FIRs against officers who avoid providing records.
According to Chandio, irregularities of Rs140 million have been discovered in Sanghar government's financial accounts. The committee would be left with no choice but to write a letter to the chief secretary, asking him to take action against the Sanghar deputy commissioner, if he continues to disregard PAC's orders, he said.
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Following the session, Sanghar additional deputy commissioner revealed that the PAC had given two months' time to clear audit objections raised on financial irregularities. Later, the PAC chairman had given another month's extension to submit explanations regarding the irregularities, he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 27th, 2019.
Keeping on with the trend of disregarding the Public Accounts Committee's (PAC) orders, the bureaucrats did not show up at the provincial watchdog's recent session held in the Sindh Assembly's committee room on Wednesday.
Despite the Pakistan Peoples Party MNA Faryal Talpur attending the session on production orders, the PAC meeting, headed by PAC Chairman Ghulam Qadir Chandio, lasted no longer than 10 minutes due to the Sanghar deputy commissioner's absence.
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The latter was required to submit a working paper to the committee. The agenda for the meeting included the announcement of the verdict on audit objections for the fiscal year 2004, which wasn't declared due to the deputy commissioner's absence.
Chandio said that the PAC will direct the anti-corruption department to register FIRs against officers who avoid providing records.
According to Chandio, irregularities of Rs140 million have been discovered in Sanghar government's financial accounts. The committee would be left with no choice but to write a letter to the chief secretary, asking him to take action against the Sanghar deputy commissioner, if he continues to disregard PAC's orders, he said.
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Following the session, Sanghar additional deputy commissioner revealed that the PAC had given two months' time to clear audit objections raised on financial irregularities. Later, the PAC chairman had given another month's extension to submit explanations regarding the irregularities, he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 27th, 2019.