BBMP: ₹2 thousand crore illegal!

•  ₹12,142.31 crore; Objection Amount (1964-65 to 2021-22)
•  ₹2,010 crore; Objection Amount (2021–22)
•  ₹1,687 crore; Objection Amount (2020–21)
•  ₹1,169 crore; Objection Amount (2019–20)
•  ₹684.11 crore; Objection Amount (2018–19)
•  ₹355.22 crore; Objection Amount (2017–18)

 Which category is most objectionable?

•  ₹1,025 crore; General Administration
•  ₹906.84 crore; work
•  ₹68.57 crore; health
•  ₹9.05 crore; revenue

 Major complications

•  * Seamless maintenance of cash book
•  * Failure to provide complete records for audit
•  * Postponement of audit program due to inadequate reason
•  * Non-cooperative attitude from Audit Officer/ Staff
•  * Annual accounts not submitted within the prescribed period 
•  * Non-maintenance of accounts, documents, records in prescribed form

 Objection in the audit report for the year 2021-22; More than the previous line

 BBMP: ₹2 thousand crore illegal!

Kere Manjunath ಕೆರೆ ಮಂಜುನಾಥ್ 

 BENGALURU: An audit of the Greater Bangalore Municipal Corporation has found irregularities of ₹2,010 crore, of which only ₹422 crore has been recovered.

 This point was published in the audit for the year 2021-22 submitted by the Auditor General of BBMP, where 696 objections were filed. In 124 cases, recovery was done, while BBMP did not give any reply to the remaining 625 objections. The objection in 2021-22 is the highest since 1964 to 2021-22.

 The report warned that there is a possibility of loss to the corporation if action is not taken on time regarding the deficiencies and recoveries mentioned in the audit report. It is felt that along with the audit report of this line, a recommendation should be submitted to the government to take effective action on the previous line reports as well.

 Additional bill payment of ₹8 crore: The report clearly mentions the loss of ₹8.01 crore due to additional payment in general administration, works, health and education departments.

 Irregularity: ₹15.95 crore was paid in violation of rules in execution of work and purchase of materials. ₹9.98 crore was paid in general administration, ₹1.57 crore in health department, ₹4.28 lakh in works and ₹11.36 lakh in education department.

Most of the violations are in the bulk drainage and solid waste management department. Estimated list has been prepared by applying the rate list before SR rate implementation. Similarly, ₹78.97 lakh has been paid in Bommanahalli division. There are more cases in these two categories where the contract has been awarded to one firm and the bill has been paid to another contractor.  

 Two bills for the same work!

 Panduranga was paid ₹ 7.37 lakh both online and offline for the concrete box work of the water canal carried out on Magadi Road by the Chief Engineer's Office of the Major Water Drainage Division. The report stated that the chief engineer's dereliction of duty was serious.

 Bill for two: 

Repair of toilet of Deputy Controller of Finance office in Dasarahalli sub-division by contractor H.S. Girish was paid ₹99,508 on February 16, 2021. For the same work, contractor N.M. Chetan was paid the same amount on March 19.

 Double Payment: 

A total of ₹1.16 lakh has been paid twice for the removal and re-installation of drain slabs undertaken by the Road Infrastructure Executive Engineer, Bommanahalli Division.

 One charge, two bills: 

Double receipt issued for same DD in office of OFC Divisional Executive. In 31 cases, 62 receipts have been issued for an amount of ₹4.21 crore.

 Bill for work not done!

 ₹ 63.83 lakh has been paid for the removal of silt in the drain in two directions to the South Central Link Road under the jurisdiction of the Executive Engineer of Gandhinagar Division. However, as there is no detail of the old slab being removed and the new one installed, the report states that the work has been done is far from the truth.

 Fee for Indira Canteen Parcel!

 ₹11.59 lakh including GCST has been paid to an organization called Rewards by the Deputy Controller of Finance, Bommanahalli Zone, even though the parcel was not allowed in Indira Canteens. There is no provision for payment of parcel fee in tender contract agreement and mandate.