Chandigarh, April 21
Following instances of fraudulent claims of leave travel concession (LTC) and other irregularities being detected by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), the Ministry of Finance has ordered that LTC claims paid to government employees over the past 10 years be scrutinised.
The Controller General of Accounts in the finance ministry has, in an order issued on April 20, directed its subordinate offices in all ministries and departments that the internal audit wings will examine the LTC claims paid from 2010-11 onwards along with their regular audit submit their compliance report to the ministry by September 30.
After audit of some government offices, the CAG had, in its report last year, observed that after air tickets submitted by employees were cross checked with the concerned airlines, it emerged that the employees had changed the amount mentioned in original air tickets to higher amount, names of unauthorised travel agents through which tickets were booked was deleted from the ticket and in some cases details were altered.