GHMC

Talking points on the GHMC Audit Report for the year 2010-11

MAJOR HIGHLIGHTS:

·         Property Tax:

A sum of Rs. 10.62 Crores was found missing in property tax realization in eight out of (18) Circles. It was brought to the notice of the Commissioner GHMC. The clarifications given by the GHMC were not convincing. According the GHMC version the missing amount is about Rs.35 lakh. The modus operandi was that the cheques towards the Property Tax was collected by Bill Collectors, Citizen Service Centre and E-seva, but they were not realized in the GHMC accounts though the Property Tax demand was reduced. A letter has been addressed to the bankers of the GHMC to confirm whether the cheques disputed in the audit were realized in the bank accounts. The reply has not been received as yet.

• Solid waste Management project (Jawahar Nagar):

A sum of Rs. 293.2 Crores was escalated in Integrated SWM project from 434 Crores to 727.20 Crores due delay in Finaliazation of the projectas seen from the the Technical appraisal submitted to the GOI.

Transport section:

• A sum of Rs. 12.11 lakahs was defrauded by way of manipulation in the stock register of the diesel duly arriving less closing balances at the end of certain periods.

• The GHMC sustained loss to the tune of Rs. 8.14 lakhs due to short accounts of diesel purchased from the IOC Hyderabad.

Town Planning:

• A sum of Rs. 1.96 Cores was lost due short collection of building permission and other fees by adopting old rates in the place of new scheduled rates.

•  An amount of Rs.23.75 lakh was lost due to non-collection of the betterment and external betterment charges in the specified cases.
• A sum of Rs. 14.06 lakhs was lost due to charging old rates of building permission fee in the revised applications submitted by the permission seekers after revision of the rates.
• A sum of Rs. 36.43 lakhs was lost due to reduction of the compounding fee without valid reasons.

Advertisement tax:

• Huge amount of Rs. 9.97 lakhs has been due from the advertisement agencies in respect of hoardings/uni-ploes/uni-strcutures.

• For the first time trend and ratio analysis was made on the income and expenditure of the GHMC. The shortfalls in realization of the income than the projections made in the budget;  escalation of revenue expenditure and failure in incurring the capital expenditure were pointed out

Rs (in crores)

S.No.	Head of account	Budget figures	Actual income	Difference
1	Revenue income	1360.86	1285.71	75.15
2	Plan Grants	920.00	514.22	405.78
3	Other capital borrowings	333.36	0	333.36
4	Borrowings	2354	0	0

Expenditure:

S.No.	Head of account	Budget figures	Actual income	Difference
1	Revenue expenses	961.52	1000.89	-39.37
2	Plan Grants	1676.24	604.14	1072.10

            The team of the Asst. Audit Officers who contributed:

1. Smt G. Deepti

2. Miss G. Vani Reddy

3. Sri V. Ramesh

4. Sri  M. Parvathalu

5. Damodhar Reddy