TNN, Nov 11, 2010,
PUNE: An inspection of the accounts of Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation's (PCMC) school board has revealed irregularities like excess payment of pension and salary.
The inspection of the primary section accounts was done by the general local bodies audit and accounts department of the Union government. The department inspected accounts for the period between April 1, 2007 and March 31, 2009.
The inspection report has drawn attention to one employee getting paid more than the due salary and nine pensioners getting paid an excess amount of Rs 3.14 lakh.
Activist Vihar Durve received the information about the report after he filed an RTI application. The office of the senior deputy accountant, general, local bodies (audit and accounts)-I, Maharashtra had conducted the inspection.
The report states that an excess payment of Rs 13,650 with allowances was made to an assistant teacher for the period between July 1, 2002 and January 31, 2010. This amount should be recovered, it said. The report has pulled up the school board for not taking any action in the last two years even after the employee brought the excess payment to their notice through her letter dated October 31, 2007.
The PCMC's administrative officer had assured that the pay scale of the employee would be verified and the recovery would be effected.
Another employee was also made an excess payment amounting to Rs 32,900 for the period between November 1, 1999 and January 1, 2010.
The inspection report also highlighted incomplete work under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and said that of the 145 school rooms to be completed, 108 classrooms remained incomplete.
Vishnu Jadhav, administrative officer, secondary education department with additional charge of primary education said, "The audit report refers to the period when I was not in-charge of the department, so I cannot comment."
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