CBEC Wants Action Initiated against Officers for Serious Lapses
THE Public Accounts Committee of the 16th Lok Sabha had recommended to have action initiated against the officers responsible for serious lapses in furnishing remedial/corrective ATNs on Audit paras. The Committee, further reiterated its earlier recommendation, and desired that a system of fixing responsibility for serious lapses be put in place.
CBEC has noticed that generally the lapse is on the part of departmental officers on revenue such as non-detection of lapse during scrutiny of B/E and Shipping bills, non- detection of lapse during internal audit or non conducting of audit.
Board reiterates officers involved in the audit should be clearly directed to follow the instructions scrupulously given in the Audit Manual.
Board in a letter to all Commissioners (and above) directs that
"the assessing officers involved in the assessment of B/E and Shipping Bills should follow the instructions issued by the Ministry and DG(System) from time to time.
The jurisdictional Commissioner should examine the audit objection at the time of submitting the comments/Action Taken Note to the Ministry carefully in light of lapses on the part of the officers noticed by the C&AG Audit. In case of serious lapse of not following the instructions given supra or any other serious lapse noticed by the Commissioner, the Commissioner should initiate action for fixing responsibility and initiate action against the officers under CCS(CCA) conduct rules."
Can't they do a spell check? :
DDT has been suggesting that the Board should appoint an English Teacher or at least use ‘Microsoft Word' to check the spelling in the great sanctified documents released by it.
In this small letter, see how many spelling mistakes are there.
4. With regard to non-detection of lapse during the internal audit, it is once again reiterated that officers involved in the audit should be clearly directed to follow the instructions scupulously given in the Audit Manual.
5. The assesing officers involved in the assessmsnt of B/E and Shipping Bills should follow the instructions issued by the Ministry and DG(System) from time to time.
6. The jurisctional Commissioner ...
These are small and negligible mistakes, but you should remember this is a department that would take the assessee to Supreme Court for a comma.
They will correct these mistakes tomorrow - with retrospective effect.
CBEC letter in F.No.307/32/2015-SO(PAC-Cus.)., Dated December 18, 2015