PCMC chief auditor shunted out

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.

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.