Srinagar, Feb. 16 -- The government has asked Drawing and Disbursing Officers (DDOs) to pay back funds, which they have 'wrongly parked' in accounts for a long period of time without utilising them on development works.
The Finance Department has learnt the Drawing and Disbursing Officer's (DDOs) have retained huge sum of money in bank accounts for long period.
"It has been observed that huge amounts of money has been parked in the accounts of DDOs for pretty long periods. The amounts parked in the accounts have either been drawn from treasuries in advance or subsequently not utilised within prescribed time or these relate to schemes of the Government, the works in respect of which have not been executed within the schedule," an order by ...