FC: 81:2022:9

To peruse the status of pending Audit Paras

The Last Transaction Audit of the University for the Year 2018-19 was conducted by a team deputed by the Office of the Director General of Audit (Central) Hyderabad during the period from 26.11.2018 to 03.01.2019. The Inspection Report for the said year was issued to the University by the External Audit Office vide their letter dated 08.02.2019. According to the above Inspection Report, total 89 Paras are outstanding. The details of (a) year-wise and (b) department-wise outstanding paras are attached at Annexure for kind perusal of the members.

It is to report that the External Audit Office was requested through a DO letter in December 2020 (copy attached) for deputing a separate Audit Team exclusively to scrutinize replies for all the outstanding Audit Paras and for their settlement. In response, the External Audit Office has replied in February 2021 (copy attached) that all the remaining outstanding Paras will be reviewed during the next ´Transaction Audit’.

In this regard, it is to inform that the Transaction Audit for the years 2019-20 and 2020-21 have not been conducted by the External Audit Office so far due to COVID-19 Pandemic situation.

It is to further report that the replies to all the 89 outstanding Paras will be kept ready (after due vetting of the Internal Audit Office) and furnished to the External Audit team and convince them for dropping / settlement of most of the outstanding Paras during the ensuing Transaction Audit