Karak.
The officials of the SNGPL replied that the issue was being discussed with the provincial government.Examining another audit para, the audit officials told the committee that SNGPL had suffered a financial loss of Rs2.86 billion in 2010-11.
Committee member Shafqat Mehmood observed that people were suffering due to the company’s inefficiency and now cess tax had been imposed.The audit officials told the committee that the Workers Welfare Board had spent Rs20 million on a function at Gawadar but did not provide details of expenditure. The committee expressed its annoyance and directed inquiry to fix the responsibility.
The audit officials told the committee that Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources had spent Rs2 million on the deployed rangers for the security of their installations but did not provide the invoice of payments.The committee directed the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural resources to inquire into non-provision of payment receipts to the audit officials and fix the responsibility.
Examining another audit para, the audit officials told the committee that Sindh Workers Welfare Board Karachi had constructed 1,000 residential flats for the laborers with Rs331.6 million and these flats were used for keeping the flood victims of 2008 but for the last six years they had failed to evict the affected people.
They told the committee that even the Sindh High Court had also ordered the vacation of flats but the orders were yet to be implemented.The PAC directed the Ministry of Human Resource Development to vacate the flats and hand them over to the laborers.
Another Audit report highlighted that a special secretary of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources during the tenure of the government visited Doha, Dubai, London and Paris without approval of the prime minister and an amount of Rs1 million was claimed as TA/DA, which was paid to him.
The audit office termed it irregularity and directed the Ministry of Petroleum for an ex-post facto approval of the prime minister.The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources in its reply stated that the former special secretary Ministry of Petroleum had informed the ministry that in view of the importance of the project, a system was evolved with the approval of Finance Division to undertake such visits with the approval of minister in charge.