CAG finds ₹2.60 crore irregular payment to Osmania University staff

This audit examined the performance of the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) and the compliance of financial transactions across various General, Social, and Economic sector departments of the Government of Telangana for the period ended March 2022.

Government of Telangana, including departments such as Municipal Administration and Urban Development, Backward Classes Welfare, Higher Education (Osmania University), Panchayat Raj and Rural Development, Consumer Affairs, Irrigation, Minorities Welfare, Scheduled Castes Development, and various Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs).

• Performance audit of AMRUT implementation in Telangana.
• Compliance audit observations regarding Kalyana Lakshmi Pathakam (Backward Classes Welfare).
• Functioning and financial irregularities at Osmania University, including irregular payment of remuneration of ₹2.60 crore to staff.
• Construction and maintenance issues in Rural Roads (Panchayat Raj and Rural Development).
• Irregular expenditure due to lifting of subsidised rice by ineligible persons (Consumer Affairs).
• Non-recovery of interest on Mobilisation Advance and wasteful expenditure on a Minor Irrigation Tank (Irrigation Department).
• Wasteful expenditure on Computer Training Centres (Minorities Welfare) and Stadium Buildings (Youth Advancement).
• Irregularities in the Driver Empowerment Programme (Scheduled Castes, Minorities, and Tribal Welfare Departments).
• PSU audits covering TSIIC, TSEPDCL, TSEWIDC, and TSRCL, including non-recovery of TDS on terminal benefits and infructuous expenditure on buses.

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