LARKANA: Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, chairman of the Sindh Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee, has warned officers concerned, who have failed to provide audit record to the committee, of action and asked heads of the departments to ensure the record was submitted a week before PAC’s scheduled meeting.

Khuhro said in a statement issued here on Saturday that PAC would keep its eye on the expenditure of government funds and asked the heads of the departments to ensure spending people’s tax money on public interest development works.

Giving details of recoveries, which the office of PAC received from the director generals concerned of audit for five months from July 24 to November 2024, he said, initially the office was conveyed recovery of an amount of Rs624.623 million, which swelled to Rs741.832 million after an amount Rs117.209 million was recovered and deposited in government treasury.

The DG audit of local government, Fauzia Saleem Khan, stated in a letter to the PAC office that an amount of Rs94.747 million was recovered in terms of income tax, Sindh Sales Tax on services etc.

These recoveries were in respect of audit year 2019-20 & 2020-21, she said.

Published in Dawn, December 15th, 2024