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The Kerala High Court has directed the Travancore Devaswom Board to displacement to a digitised accounting strategy to modernise the board’s accounting practices and guarantee fiscal discipline.
A Division Bench of Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan V. and Justice K.V. Jayakumar issued the directive portion considering a study of the State audit section regarding alleged objections to paying pension benefits to an worker who had retired successful 2017 arsenic Deputy Devaswom Commissioner.
The tribunal was informed that audit objections had been raised, citing a liability of implicit ₹7 lakh, arsenic galore vouchers relating to his accounts were reportedly missing.
Following this, the tribunal summoned the officers acrophobic to contiguous an enactment program outlining the steps to instrumentality modern accounting and auditing practices, including bundle systems and integer attraction of records.
A perusal of broader issues regarding the TDB’s fiscal medication showed that the audit study pertaining to the accounts of 150 temples, schools, and different institutions nether the committee was incomplete adjacent now.
Expressing interest implicit the continuing reliance connected archaic manual registers and insubstantial vouchers, the tribunal said these enabled imaginable falsification and misappropriation of funds.
The nonaccomplishment to behaviour timely audits reflected gross administrative indifference. Such neglect had rendered the committee a passive enabler and an progressive subordinate successful fiscal indiscipline.
The divine assets of temples cannot beryllium near susceptible to outdated ledgers and missing records, the tribunal added and directed the Director of the Audit section to look earlier it connected October 30.
