Failure of DSE to verify claims caused ₹23.27 crore loss
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Failure to detect errors led to avoidable expenditure of ₹1.42 cr.
The failure of the Directorate of School Education (DSE) and the Directorate of Elementary Education (DEE) in verifying the correctness of claims most well-liked by the Tamil Nadu Textbook Corporation resulted in avoidable expenditure of ₹21.85 crore, in accordance to the report of the Comptroller of Auditor General (GAG) of India.
The report additionally stated that the failure of the Director of School Education in detecting errors in textbooks led to avoidable expenditure of ₹1.42 crore.
The report tabled within the Assembly identified that the Tamil Nadu Textbook and Educational Services Corporation (TNTBESC), answerable for printing and distributing textbooks, had been together with a further quantity of 5% on the price of paper as dealing with expenses. But it was not a part of the manufacturing price, as permitted by the State authorities, in an order issued in December 2010.
The CAG report stated on being identified by the audit, the company discontinued the levy within the consequent declare (May 2019) in respect of the educational 12 months 2019-20.
“But the DSE and the DEE failed to verify the correctness of the claim submitted by TNTBESC. Their failure has resulted in the excess payment of ₹21.85 crore during the period from 2016-17 to 2018-19,” the report stated.
An further avoidable fee of ₹1.42 crore was paid to TNTBESC for printing and supplying 6,36,900 copies of books for 2 topics for eleventh and twelfth requirements. According to the DSE, reprinting was necessitated by sure conceptual errors identified by the lecturers.
Errors discovered
“Audit found that the conceptual errors were in the foreword and preface of the textbooks and in one to seven inner pages of these eight books. A total of ₹1.42 crore was paid to TNTBESC in March 2016,” the report stated.
The report added that regardless that a system was put in place from 2017-18 for the scrutiny of textbooks earlier than ordering print, the DSE had not checked or reviewed them.
The report additionally advisable the institutionalisation of a fail-safe rigorous checking of textbooks earlier than mass printing.
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