The city chairman of Thrikkara Radhamani Pillai rejected the audit report on the municipal accounts 2023-24 and questioned the intentions for publishing the report before being verified by all documents submitted by the city authorities.
The opposition parties called for a special meeting of the Council to discuss a report noted that CRORE 7.5 GBP, which the civil authorities received on different occasions, were not charged. However, Mrs. Pillai told reporters on Wednesday (May 14, 2025) that municipalities could be responsible for each rupee mentioned above mentioned that the audit report is missing.
She stated that the money was not in the data of a bank account that was originally provided by municipalities, but the matter was later clarified because municipalities operate more bank accounts. She also claimed that discussions about accounts and missing money could be the opposition to painting a bad image of the ruling council before the elections of local authorities in October.
However, the opposition leader in the Council, MK Chandrababa of CPI (M), claimed that the accusation of the municipality was unfounded and that his account was missing money. He said that there were similar cases in the past. He pointed to Onam celebrations, which have been held in the last two years, during which he claimed, municipal funds were abused, which was also concerned that were also raised at the last audit of accounts.
Mr. Chandrababa said that the opposition would ask the ruling council to convene members of the Council to discuss the problems raised in the audit report.
Mrs. Pillai, on the other hand, expressed the certainty that she would be able to take into account every rupee of the spent municipality for various purposes and killed a report on an audit that, as she said, without incorporating the clarification submitted by the city authorities.
It delivered an online money accounting system at a municipal level via K-SWIFT was introduced a year ago and that the system ensured that there was transparency in all money negotiations.
Regarding the expenditure on Onam celebrations, as stated in the audit report, the President claimed that during the year 2023-24 there were no celebrations onam, during which only 2 lakh was spent under the different heads that were charged. During the onam in 2023, the civic body spent 24 lakh, including the Lakh 1 lakh paid the Thrikkara temple. She added that all the rest of the money spent on celebrations in 2023.
Published – May 14, 2025 17:11 is
