Court summons audit official over report on schools
March 29th, 2011 - 10:45 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, March 29 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Tuesday asked a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) official to appear before it to explain certain findings in his report indicting 25 private city schools for accounting lapses and faking losses.
The division bench of Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Siddharth Mridul said: “Ask the author of the report, Rajvir Singh (accountant general, audit) of the CAG, to appear and clarify the objections raised by counsel for the schools on the report”.
“He should appear April 8,” said the bench.
“Meanwhile, counsel appearing on behalf of the private schools will start advancing the remaining arguments on the issue,” said the bench.
The bench was hearing a petition filed by NGO Delhi Abhibhavak Mahasangh, through lawyer Ashok Aggarwal, against the Delhi government’s decision to allow schools to hike the tuition and the development fees.
Aggarwal said a direction be issued to private schools against any proposed fee hike as the new academic year was about to commence.
The Delhi government told the court that notices were issued to schools following their indictment by the CAG report.
The CAG filed a 64-page report before the bench stating that the schools did not follow the accounting standards while preparing their final accounts.
“There was no prescribed accounting format,” said the report.
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