PAC to update audit reports in a month
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
FE Report
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Jatiya Sangsad would complete the work of updating all the audit reports in a month so that it could scrutinise any of the reports, the PAC chairman said Monday.
"We asked the office of Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) to update the audit reports as soon as possible. We want to look into the recent spending of public money. We hope it would be done in the next 30 days," PAC Chairman Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir said at a workshop in the city.
Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI) organised the workshop on "Prompting Good Governance with Reference to Audit Report Backlog" moderated by BEI President Farooq Sobhan.
The PAC chief said they asked the CAG to compile the audit reports primarily based on performance of various ministries and government departments, as the reports are mostly superficial and lack substantial information.
A team of BEI experts recently conducted a research on backlogged audit reports and the project funded by USAID -- PROGATI found approximately 600 audit reports involving Tk 180 billion unsettled.
The researchers urged the authorities to clear the backlog of a large number of unresolved audit reports, piled up since the country's Independence, by disposing of 13,000 audit objections within this year.
The participants of the workshop termed the backlogged audit reports a national problem and placed a number of recommendations to overcome it.
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Jatiya Sangsad would complete the work of updating all the audit reports in a month so that it could scrutinise any of the reports, the PAC chairman said Monday.
"We asked the office of Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) to update the audit reports as soon as possible. We want to look into the recent spending of public money. We hope it would be done in the next 30 days," PAC Chairman Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir said at a workshop in the city.
Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI) organised the workshop on "Prompting Good Governance with Reference to Audit Report Backlog" moderated by BEI President Farooq Sobhan.
The PAC chief said they asked the CAG to compile the audit reports primarily based on performance of various ministries and government departments, as the reports are mostly superficial and lack substantial information.
A team of BEI experts recently conducted a research on backlogged audit reports and the project funded by USAID -- PROGATI found approximately 600 audit reports involving Tk 180 billion unsettled.
The researchers urged the authorities to clear the backlog of a large number of unresolved audit reports, piled up since the country's Independence, by disposing of 13,000 audit objections within this year.
The participants of the workshop termed the backlogged audit reports a national problem and placed a number of recommendations to overcome it.