JOIN USNo records for money spent in Sports dept
An audit of the expenditures of Department of Sports and Youth Services in Kolar has exposed a large-scale misappropriation of funds.
Officials of the Department have spent lakhs of rupees, but there are no financial records for most of the expenditure.
An audit conducted on December 3 and 4 last year, by a Central team led by Joint Director Y R Kantarajendra, has revealed that the department has spent Rs 1,26,840 on paying travelling and dwelling allowances to the sportspersons at the Yuva Jana Mela -
2009-10.
The department also doesn’t have any records for a sum of Rs 78,727 it has spent during the district-level Dasara Sports Meet in 2010-2011.
The department has spent the entire Rs 2,739 lakh grants released under the Panchayat Yuva Kreeda Aur Khel Abhiya (PYKA), but it couldn’t furnish a single bill or records on the expenditure, the report stated.
In the log books, details such as dates and bill numbers are omitted, leaving no clue over purposes for which the grants are utilised. There are no bills even for the purchases the department has made.
No details on payment
According to the report, the department claims that it has purchased following materials from the shops, but has not given details of the payment: It has paid Rs 18,055 to Sai Sports for medals; Rs 7,100 to Hobby Studio video Coverage; Rs 2,700 to Shankar Arts for banners; Rs 6,500 to Hobby Studio video Coverage; Rs 1,390 to Sai Sports for discuss throw purchase; Rs 44,919 on medals for distribution during the taluk-level PYKA sports meet; Rs 18,055 on district-level rural PYKA sports meet; Rs 22,339 on district-level rural sports meet; Rs 7,200 for Hobby Studio Photo Coverage; Rs 8,400 to Shiva Graphics for printing of certificates and badges and Rs 14,355 to Parvat Sports for block-level sports meet.
The assistant director has not maintained records for any of the payments made. The general account book and the bank’s cash book have not been maintained separately. For the money withdrawn from the banks through self cheques, cheque numbers, dates
and other details are not furnished.
The audit team which verified the records found that the expenditure made were not mentioned properly and the purposes of expenditure are not specified in the records.
Another lapse mentioned in the audit report is that the dates and cheque numbers are not mentioned for the cheques issued for the purchase of the materials.
The log book doesn’t have details of the materials the department has purchased.
Neither the total amount of expenditure nor the date of expenditure are mentioned. The Central team has also alleged that the officials didn’t furnish the records during the audit.
The authorised persons have not approved the expenditures made in certain cases. There are several other lapses which revealed poor maintenance of financial records and possibly, misappropriation of funds on a large scale.