'1/C Volume IV Miscellaneous' [‎216r] (440/632)

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°Q 94 0 frL 1 thp e r4 C ° n n i ^ er!t o a;L ^ N °* 49 °- A « dated 22nd April
i924 f from the Cffg* Under Secretary to the Government of Indie
Finance Department, to Provincial Governments and Local Admin- *
; 1S re ^ lv f under endorsement Fo. 138-A, dated l?th
May 1924, from the Government of India in the Foreign and'
Political Department, ^
Issue of instructions to executive officers impressing
on whem uhe necessity for stricter supervision to prevent
embezzlement and fraud.
The Government of India have noticed from the Audit Reports
for relating to Central Transactions, submitted by the
various Accounts Officers, that there has been a marked increase
in the number of cases of embezzlement and fraud and also of
thefts of Government money in several provinces, some of which
are of a serious nature. For example, the Accountants General,
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Madras and Central Revenues, have each mentioned one case in
which money was fraudulently drawn from the Treasury on present-
-ation of forged payment orders. The Accountant-General,
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ide pages 3 and 11-13, respectively, : Punjab again has reported a case
of their reports :
*** — in which pensions of certain
ide page 2 of his Report. :
— ■—-— deceased Political pensioners
were allowed to be drawn for over 20 years, on the strength of
false life certificates purporting to have been furnished by the
pensioners. In addition, cases of misappropriation of Govern-
-ment money by falsification of accounts and of loss of money by
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thefts have been many. The Government of India have observed
that generally the embezzlement or the perpetration of the fraud
has been facilitated by the lack of effective supervisinn on the
part of executive officers concerned. I am to express the hope
that the Gover nmen t of Madras, e tc, will impress on all executive
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officers the urgent necessity of a strict supervision to ensure
the effective prevention of embezzlement and fraud and that it
will be emphasised that serious disciplinary action will be
taken against those found guilty of bad supervision.