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Defence ministry ignores Tk 48cr audit objections

STAFF CORRESPONDENT
The office of Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has raised 31 objections involving Tk 48.33 crore to the expenditure on defence, but the defence ministry has not yet replied to any of those.
A CAG office report placed in parliament yesterday also said that
as many as 47,812 audit objections are still pending against spending of seven ministries in between fiscal years 1990-91 and 2001-02.
Of the objections, 6,075 are against the primary and mass education ministry, 10,683 against education ministry, 14,817 against health, 3,991 against home, 8449
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against the local government division under the LGRD ministry, 2,749 against fisheries and livestock, and 1,048 against the law ministry.
"It really is frustrating that such a large number of audit objections remain unresolved," the report said, calling for immediate resolution of the objections.
DEFENCE MINISTRY
On the objections about the expenditure on defence, the report said Tk 48.33 crore has been lost due to financial irregularities, and that the amount should be realised immediately.
The CAG office detected the irregularities mainly in the defence ministry's pooling resources and in distributing those among army, navy, and airforcein FY 1997 to 2002.
The report said it found that a loss of Tk 10 crore was incurred through purchase of ammunition that was cancelled by the chief of the Inspector Ammunition and Explosive. Besides, the officials concerned did not deposit in the government exchequer about Tk 1.77 crore collected against tender schedules for the purchase.
It also found that about Tk 9.88 crore has gone down the drain for procurement of tank transporter, which too was earlier cancelled by the inspection office.
About Tk 2 crore has been wasted by buying adulterated milk powder for the armymen.
FOREIGN MISSIONS
A total of 15 audit objections involving Tk 1.10 crore was raised against 18 Bangladeshi missions abroad in the FY 2002-03.
About the nature of the irregularities, the report said officials under the foreign ministry withdrew unjustifiably their allowances for education, medical treatment, accommodation, transport, and telephone and entertainment bills.
The missions against which objections have been raised are in Brussels, Tripoli, Colombo, Ankara, Islamabad, Rome, Brasilia, Singapore, New York, Kuwait, Paris, Moscow, Warsaw, Calcutta, Manchester, Karachi, Madrid and Malay.