Madhes has the highest amount of Rs 1.87 billion 3.361 billion, while Bagmati has the lowest amount of Rs 693.794 billion. After Madhes, Koshi, Lumbini, Gandaki, and Sudurpaschim have the highest amount of unclaimed money.
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Due to the failure to maintain financial discipline in government and public expenditure, the situation of embezzlement in all seven provinces, including the federal government, is becoming alarming. Billions of rupees of embezzlement continue to be added every year. This has started raising questions about transparency and thrift. It has been seen that due to the Genji demonstration, an audit of Rs 1.5 billion has not been carried out.
According to the 63rd annual audit report submitted to President Ram Chandra Poudel by the Office of the Auditor General on Friday, 88.91 billion rupees of embezzlement have been added in the fiscal year 2081/82 alone. With this, the total embezzlement amount of the government so far has reached Rs 755.19 billion.
The Accountant General has recently divided the embezzlement into two headings, saying that it is periodic embezzlement and the amount that needs to be settled after taking action. According to which, if the periodic irregularities are 755.17 billion rupees, the amount to be settled by taking action is 787.86 billion. According to the annual audit report released by the Office of the Auditor General on Friday, the irregularities for the fiscal year 2081/82 alone are 88.91 billion rupees.
Deputy Auditor General and Spokesperson of the Office of the Auditor General, Shri Kumar Rai, said that the audit of transactions worth 9484.50 billion rupees of 5,526 government bodies and offices for the fiscal year 2081/082 was conducted. Of this, financial irregularities and expenses against the procedure (irregularities) of 91.59 billion, 79 million rupees were found.
‘The irregularity amount this year seems to have decreased slightly compared to last year,’ he said, ‘However, the liability to be recovered is increasing.’ The irregularity for the fiscal year 2080/81 was 91.59 billion rupees.
He said that financial discipline has not been maintained in government agencies, the expenditure system has not been made transparent and accountable, and the amount of money that has been wasted has been increasing every year.
Of the money that has been wasted, 30.12 billion rupees have to be recovered, 56.12 billion rupees have to be regularized, and 5.34 billion rupees have to be paid. The report also mentions that due to the Genji demonstration in Bhadra 2082, the accounts of 179 offices and agencies and their related documents could not be found, so the audit of an amount equivalent to 147.9 billion rupees could not be conducted.
The report also mentions the amount of money that has been wasted in the last fiscal year, the main reasons for the increase in money that has been wasted, weaknesses in government expenditure management, and measures to be adopted to reduce money that has been wasted.
In an analysis conducted by the Office of the Auditor General based on the audited amount by province, the highest amount of money that has been wasted has been found in Madhes Province. The percentage of illegal income in Madhes is 3.77%. The lowest is in Bagmati Province at 0.83%. The total illegal income in Madhes is 1.87 billion 33 million 61 thousand. Similarly, Bagmati has the lowest 690 million 37 million 94 thousand rupees. After Bagmati, the lowest illegal income is 1.12 percent or 586 million 66 million 83 thousand. After Koshi, the least illegal income is in Lumbini Province. Lumbini has only 1.27 percent or 726 million 69 million 5 thousand. After Lumbini, the illegal income of Gandaki is 1.44 percent or 595 million 19 thousand. Sudurpaschim has 1.53 percent or 604 million 48 million 89 thousand. Similarly, the illegal income of Karnali Province is 2.08 percent or 773 million 35 million 62 thousand rupees.
The remaining deficit of the provincial government offices, other organizations and committees till last year was 31.5 billion 95 million 20 thousand, of which 2.46 billion 18 million 50 thousand rupees were added from the audit and 68.2 million 84 thousand rupees were added, making it 29.11 billion 59 million 54 thousand rupees. This year, the audit of the federal, provincial government bodies and local levels, organized organizations, committees and other organizations has been completed. In addition to various theoretical deficits, the audit has revealed 91.6 billion rupees in addition to various theoretical deficits. Out of this, 3,093 federal government offices have 31.6 billion 16 million rupees, of which 47.74 billion or 1.54 percent of the deficit has been revealed from the audit.
Out of the audit of 38.56 billion rupees of 1,165 offices at the provincial level, 4.20 billion rupees or 1.36 percent have been found to be undeliverable, and out of the audit of 1118.46 billion rupees of 761 offices at the local level, including 8 arrears, 25.32 billion rupees or 2.26 percent have been found to be undeliverable. Out of the audit of 522.13 billion rupees of 695 bodies at the committees and other organizations, 14.33 billion rupees have been found to be undeliverable.
14.48 billion rupees have been recovered this year during the audit and through the audit. The report also mentions that out of the Rs 551.2 billion that needs to be resolved by taking action, there are Rs 472.35 billion in revenue arrears, Rs 625 billion in foreign grants pending reimbursement, Rs 14.33 billion in foreign loans pending reimbursement, Rs 49.37 billion in principal and interest on loans given against collateral, and Rs 8.71 billion in audit arrears.
