PARLIAMENTARY SERIES NO.236
Date/ Name of the Institution & Ministry
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Major Issues & Problems Identified
Comments & Decisions of the COPE
4.
It was observed that an 4. Internal Audit Division had not been established in the institution.
It was stated that the relevant recruitments in relation to an internal audit division could not be made as the SOR had not yet been approved and further stated that the internal auditing of the institution was currently being done by the Internal Audit division in the Ministry. The CAO/ AO was directed to send those audit reports to the Auditor General.
5.
It was enquired about the 5. continuous increasing of deficit referring to the directive given at the previous meeting of the COPE.
As the AO stated that the delays caused in receiving funds had resulted this situation where the creditorâ€&#x;s balance had to be carried forward increasing the expenditure in the following year, the Auditor General pointed out that the institution wouldnâ€&#x;t have faced this problem if the accrued basis of accounting was followed. The Committee wanted the CAO/AO to correct the 2012 accounts as stated above while getting the necessary assistance from the Auditor General.
6.
The institution had no ac- 6. cess to most of the international schools for supervision owing to the fact that these schools did not come under the purview of the Ministry of Education and there was a growing trend of international school students getting addicted to drugs.
the Committee stressed the importance of revising the relevant law to clear the bottlenecks.