Irregularities worth billions found in Punjab departments

A Special Audit of 6 departments for the year 2009-2010 was conducted by the Auditor General of Pakistan.

LAHORE: Irregularities worth Rs 8.6 billion were detected in six departments of the Punjab during a financial audit, Express 24/7 reported on Wednesday.

A Special Audit of six departments for the year 2009-2010 was conducted by the Auditor General of Pakistan, where in inconsistencies of Rs 5.75 billion were observed in the Housing and Urban Development and Public Health Engineering departments.

Further Rs 2.3 billion worth of irregularities were discovered in the Communication and Works Development department while the tally was out of balance to the tune of Rs 80 million in the Irrigation and Power Development Department.

In the Local Government and Community Development department, Rs 3.64 million were unaccounted for and funds of Rs 1 million were not supported by any record in the Cholistan Development Authority's books.

Another Rs 12.7 million remain unaccounted for in the Kasur Training for Population Control Programme.