Progress of Audit

A. Details of Accounts Audited during 2010-2011:

Annual audit of accounts of 2101 institutions have been completed by this department, besides issuing audit notes and objection slips in the major concurrent audit institutions during 2010-11.

B. Audit Report issued/closed:

A total of 2671 Audit reports/Audit notes were issued and 3666 Audit reports were also closed. 24021 number of audit reports are pending closure as on 31.12.2010. The figures relating to the year is provisional.

C. Audit Certificates Issued:

1018 numbers of Audit Certificates were issued involving a total amount of Rs.544979179/- during the year 2010-11.

A. Details of Accounts Audited during 2014-15

Annual audit of accounts of 5974 Institutions have been completed by this Department, besides issuing audit notes and objection slips in the major concurrent audit institutions, during 2014-15.

B. Audit Report Issued/Closed

A total of 30521 Audit Reports have to be pending closure on 1.4.2014 and 1583 Audit Reports were closed during 2014-15 financial year. 28938 numbers of Audit Reports are pending closure as on 31.3.2015.

C. Audit Certificates Issued

1836 numbers of Audit Certificates were issued during the year 2014-15.

D. Misappropriation and serious Irregularities

During the year, irregularities were noticed in Grama Panchayats, Block Panchayats, Municipalities, Corporations, Universities, Devaswoms etc. In addition to this misappropriation cases were noticed in some of the institutions.

E. Pension Papers disposed off

The verification and certification of pensionary claims of Municipal employees, employees of Development authorities, Corporations, Devaswom, HR &CE Institutions, Universities, KSHB, SIEP, SIL etc are done by the Department. A total of 2656 pension files have been verified and claims certified by the Department during 2014-15.

F. Result of Audit

The magnitude of the expenditure, incurred by all the Institutions which were subjected to audit during 2014-15, amounts to Rs.1451842/- lakhs.

As a result of audit transactions to the tune of Rs.47645.58/- lakhs were held under objection and Rs.9245.224/- lakhs disallowed.

G. Audit Charge

The Department earns revenue to Government in the form of audit fee from the Auditee Institutions. An amount of Rs.351527370/- is pending collection towards audit charges at the end of 31.3.2015. An amount of Rs.414336975/- is demanded and Rs.62809605/- is collected during 2014-15.

Section 19(4) of Kerala Local Fund Audit Act empowers this Department to collect the arrears of audit charges if it were not paid within one year from the date of its becoming due and where no grant or sum is payable by the Government to the Local authority, by effecting the provisions of Kerala Revenue Recovery Act