Gross irregularities found during audit at Chandigarh PGIMER

On irregularities, the report said, “Though PGI is maintaining the annual financial accounts, it has also been maintaining single entry system in spite of several objections raised by CAG.”

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It further revealed that an engineering wing of the institute has six divisions. “All the contractors bills, staff bills are passed by the engineering wing itself and a memo without enclosing vouchers has been sent to the account section of PGI to issue a cheque. It has also come to notice that all the contractors bills are checked and examined by a clerk and not a qualified AAO or AO,” the audit team pointed out. “It has come to our notice that from contractors bills a deduction @ 1.5 per cent of bill amount has been made on account of water charges. But, the deduction is nowhere shown in the account,” the report claimed.

The audit team also noticed that the clerical staff of the engineering wing has not been included in the centralised gradation list of the institute.

“ Institutions maintaining annual financial accounts…should preferably maintain double entry system for more accuracy,” the report pointed out.

On the consequences, the report said that because double entry system has not been maintained… the government and its staff may suffer a loss.”

The audit team has also made several recommendations to PGI. “It advised it to adopt a double entry system and that vouchers may be sent to the account branch by the engineering wing while issuing cheque memos.It also advised that a centralised gradation list of all clerical staff be maintained. The action take in this regard may be intimated to audit,” the report said