PUNE, Nov 17: Chief auditor of the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation, Sudhir Khanapure was today suddenly transferred to Mantrayala in Mumbai, leaving a question mark on the progress of the work on completing the audit work of the corporation pending since last 23 years.Khanapure, working at the corporation since August 1997, has been transferred to Mantrayala as deputy director of welfare fund and accounts department. The corporation had recently begun the work of audit of the financial accounts of all the civic departments, on the directives of Municipal Commissioner Ganesh Thakur who after taking charge in September noticed the lapse that the civic departments had overlooked the responsibility of completing the audit work.The number of audit objections has been as high as 20,000. The amount about which objections had been raised was to the tune of Rs 1.25 crore, it was learnt.There are about a hundred civic departments and the audit work had been pending since the year 1975-76.A special cell, headed by additional commissioner R B Konde, has been created for completing the work in three months. The departments had been given a time-table according to which they had to submit the replies to the audit objections. ``The work is likely to get hampered after the sudden transfer of Khanapure,'' civic sources said.
