00:0022 ITDAs were established in Odisha during the period 1979-80 to 22-23.
00:09A compliance audit of 11 sampled ITDAs covering the period from 2018-19 to 22-23 was conducted.
00:18The significant audit findings are as follows.
00:22Out of 1,709.47 crores available with 11 sampled ITDAs during the period 2018-23, a sum of only Rs. 1,190.44 crores, that is 70% rich, only could be spent, indicating poor spending efficiency of the sampled ITDAs.
00:50A compliance audit covering 65 special schools, all run by NGOs, functioning in the 8 sampled districts were conducted, covering the period of 2018-23, to assess the maintenance of standards of the schools.
01:04The significant audit observations are as follows.
01:08In the sampled district, 23 out of the 65 sampled schools, i.e. 35% were functioning without registration, as required under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act.
01:19This is Paragraph 2.5.2.
01:22Basic minimum function facilities in schools like classrooms, hygienic toilets, essential hostel accommodation, ramps, kitchen, dining space, purified drinking water, etc.
01:34were not available in 8-53 sampled special schools.
01:38A shortfall in aids and supplies like hearing aids, braille books, teaching and learning aids at sampled schools range from 30-72%.
01:50This is Paragraph 2.5.4.
01:52Basic amenities like cords, mattresses, bed linens, blankets, mosquito nets, etc. were not adequately available in hostels.
02:00In the shortfall range between 8-43 percentage.
02:05This is Paragraph 2.5.4.1.
02:09And shortfalls in availability of teaching, skill development and non-teaching staff.
02:14The sampled schools were 36, 53 and 37 percentage respectively, indicating inadequate teaching and care given to the students at the sampled special schools.
02:24This is Paragraph 2.5.5.
02:25This is Paragraph 2.5.5.
02:27Inspection and monitoring mechanism of the SSD department was inadequate, which resulted in various shortcomings in terms of inadequate or dilapidated hostel buildings, lack of classrooms, congested living space, unhygienic toilets, lack of...
02:43There were 342 bids pertaining to 120 tenders in the system, which was recorded as not having been decrypted.
02:53Out of these 120 tenders, 48 tenders had either been revoked, re-tendered or cancelled.
03:00However, these were no explanation as to why the bids in the remaining 72 tenders were recorded as not having been decrypted.
03:07Out of these bids, which were recorded as not decrypted, contracts had been awarded in the case of 5 bids.
03:16This discrepancy indicated that material risk that these bids pertaining to 72 tenders had been entered into the system through manual intervention at the back end.
03:25Coming to chapter 7, the business process such as tender evaluation, both technical and financial, negotiation with vendors, and award of contracts are still being carried out manually, instead of through the e-procurement system.
03:41As a result, the objective of eliminating human interface for this key process has not been achieved.
03:48In the absence of application control for this process carried out manually, audit notice instances where tender inviting authorities had manually increased the bid amounts submitted by the bidders after downloading the financial bid
04:01bill of quantities from the e-procurement portal and excluded the L1 bidder from the consideration at the time of award of contract.
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