Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, Government of India

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lapses in the functioning of various departments in the Ministry and advising the
management for necessary action/rectication. This has proved to be as immense
management tool to bring about objectivity and nancial propriety in day to day functioning
and by bringing greater sensitivity for nancial prudence.
The ofcers of the Internal Audit wing as well as ofces posted in other section have
been imparted various trainings related to Internal Audit in the past.
Consequent upon the effective utilization of Internal Audit mechanism during the past few
years by the Pr. CCA's organization, there has been a signicant improvement in
maintenance of Accounts/regards almost in all ofce of the Ministry of Road Transport &
Highways. Audit paras which involves major irregularities/deciencies are brought to the
notice of head of Departments and matter persuade for settlement of paras and review
meeting are also arranged by Pr.CCA ofce to take stock of the outstanding paras.
The major responsibilities of Internal Audit are as follows:
• Internal audit/ Inspection of accounts of all Wings of the Ministry and test check of the
Accounting of the Public Works Divisions (NH) of State Government Involved in
construction and maintenance of National Highways Roads & Units of the Ministry.
• Monitoring and disposal of all audit paras and observations coming under the preview of
Public Accounts Committee and other Parliamentary Committees.
• Internal Work Study in all the wings of the Ministry and coordination with the 'Staff
Inspection Unit' of the Ministry of Finance.
• Preparation of Annual Review of the performance of Internal Audit.
During the year 29 units pertaining to NH Division have been audited.
(vi) Computerization of Accounts
a. E-Lekha: A web based application for generating daily/monthly MIS/Expenditure of
accounting information. All the PAO's/RPAO's have been fully integrated with the based
accounting portal E-Lekha. They are required to upload their daily transactions in this portal
so that the date of expenditure and receipts are available on daily basis. This has enabled
availability of real time data on expenditure and receipt which is crucial for effective
monitoring of expenditure/receipts and budgetary controls. The reports generated from the
Management Information System of this portal are important managerial tools and are being
by various Departments of the Ministry.
b. PFMS: PFMS was initially started for release of funds under plan schemes of Govt. of India.
Now the scope of PFMS has been expanded to integrate various existing standalone systems

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