Times of India: Bhopal: Saturday,
April 05, 2014.
A local fund
audit of the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) has revealed
massive financial irregularities.
MPPEB not
only suffered a financial loss of Rs 4 crore in the examination proceedings in
the last three years but also failed to justify the auditors how 'number of
candidates appeared in examination was more than the number of forms sold'.
Besides, it's
alleged that the then authorities had rejected the proposal for online
examination on baseless grounds notwithstanding its low cost and exemption from
tedious written examination system.
Social
activist Ajay Dubey claims he has accessed documents under RTI which reveals
that the proposal was rejected by the then MPPEB chairman Ranjana Chaudhary in
collusion with the then exam controller and chief system analyst who rigged
almost all examinations conducted by MPPEB.
The internal
audit report of MPPEB's financial advisor A K Surana is also missing.
Objections
have been raised on undue expenditures like Rs 24 lakh in printing of envelopes
during examination of contractual teachers in 2008-09, Rs 37 lakh for printing
envelopes for police constable recruitment examination in 2007-08, Rs 11 lakh
in printing of rule book and OMR sheets for contractual teachers recruitments,
missing documents of Rs 4.3 crore given to examination centres etc.
MPPEB spent
Rs 93 lakh on pretext of examinations from 2008 to 2011, but failed to produce
documents before auditors to substantiate claims. He has demanded constitution
of a special investigation team (SIT) under direct supervision of Madhya
Pradesh high court.
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