Auditor General Tanka Mani Sharma Dangal has said that people have started taking government arrears only as ‘something the auditors point out as a routine job.’
Speaking at a meeting of the Audit Committee held on Sunday, Auditor General Sharma complained that in recent times, agencies are taking the arrears as an auditor’s job rather than the need to clear arrears by themselves.
He said that the scientific solution to arrears clearance is to spend the government arrears raised in one year in the same year. He said that even if there was no expenditure in the same year, it should have been incurred during the next year’s audit.
Auditor General Sharma said that the auditors will not be allowed morally, legally and practically to show their government arrears by defaming the public representatives. He said the auditors have not yet done such work. He said that the person in charge should prohibit such work rather than promoting it at the political level.
