HP Local Audit Department

About Us

The Local Audit Department, Himachal Pradesh is an integral part of the Finance Department. Principal Secretary (Finance) to the Government of Himachal Pradesh is its Administrative Secretary and Special Secretary (Finance) is its ex-officio Director who is also the Head of Department. This department came into existence in Himachal Pradesh on 1-11-1966 as a result of reorganization of erstwhile State of Punjab.
The department at the time of its inception was responsible for conduct of audit of Panchyat Smities, Zila Parisads, Municipal Committees, Pupils funds of Educational Institutions, Industrial Schools, District Relief Funds and other Miscellaneous Accounts. Gradually, the Department was entrusted with functions of audit of Universities, H.P. Board of School Education, H.P. Marketing Board and Marketing Committees, H. P. Housing & Urban Development Authority, Temple Trusts, Educational Institutions including Govt. Schools & Colleges, H.P. Language, Art and Cultural Academy Shimla, Director Smalll Saving HP and District Small Saving Prize Money, Polytechnic Institutes and Industrial Training Institute, National Security Relief Funds, Fish Farmar Development Agency etc.

To cater to its clients more efficiently and professionally, Local Audit Department took some path breaking initiatives. The new measures focused on both capacity building as well as change in working systems and procedures. A most important initiative is preparation of the Audit Code of the Local Audit Department. It contains the origin of the department, its evolution over a period of time, its structure. Auditing Standards and Guidance Notes of Audit. Guiding principles for conducting the audit of various institutions have also been incorporated for the guidance of the staff, which will be very much useful for the efficient functioning of the staff of the department.

	Annual Administrative Report for the year 2012-13 in English Hindi
	Ex-officio Vigilance Officer
	Fire Officers-cum-Environment Officers
	Assets and Liabilities Return 2010
	ACRs Completion Status
	Nodal Officers Assets and Liabilities Return
	Training Plan 2012-13
	Training Manual
	Organisational Structure

Brief description of the duties and powers of the Officers and Officials :

The department functions under the overall administrative control of Principal Secretary (Finance) to the Govt. of H.P.

Director-cum-Examiner, Local Fund Accounts Special Secretary (Fin.-Exp.) holds the charge of the post of Director-cum-Examiner, Local Fund Accounts, H.P., Shimla. He is the Head of the Department too.

OFFICERS/OFFICIALS POSTED IN H.Q. OFFICE OF THE LOCAL AUDIT DEPARTMENT :

Additional Director/Joint Director: He is the Head of the Office as well as Controlling Officer for Class-I,II, III & IV employees of the department, subordinate to him.
Deputy Director –I: - He is looking after the working of Marketing Board, Shimla and all Market Committees, Vetting of Audit Reports of all the three Universities, Board of School Education, Temple Trusts, Govt. Colleges and other misc. institutions.
Deputy Director-II: - He is the Branch Officer of the Technical Section. He is also responsible for conduct of audit of HIMUDA and vetting of audit reports of Govt. schools.
Assistant Director: - He is branch Officer of Administrative and Accounts Section of the Headquarters Office of the Local Audit Department. He also supervises the Audit parties as and when special audit of any institution is assigned to this department.

Section Officer (Monitoring Cell):- He is functioning as DDO besides holding the charge of the Administration and Accounts Section and monitoring cell.

Section Officer (Technical Section): Functioning as incharge of the Technical Section of the H.Q. Office.

Jr. Auditors: - Functioning as dealing Assistants of Accounts, Establishment and Technical Sections in the H.Q. Office of the Local Audit Department.

Jr. Asstt./Clerks :- Typing work of Audit Notes and drafts, also function as Diarist and Despatcher etc.

THE OFFICERS/OFFICIALS POSTED IN THE RESIDENT AUDIT SCHEMES:

Joint Controller/Deputy Controller/Assistant Controller and Section Officers are functioning as incharges of the Resident Audit Schemes in the case of Universities, H.P. Board of School Education, Marketing Board and Market Committees respectively. The function of these Officers is to conduct the pre-audit and supervision of the work of the subordinate staff posted there.

JUNIOR AUDITORS: Conduct the pre-audit/post audit in the Resident Audit Scheme.

OFFICERS/OFFICIALS POSTED IN THE FIELD:-

Section Officers: Section Officers and Junior Auditors have been posted in the field audit circles to conduct the post audit of the institutions under Auditorial Jurisdiction of the Local Audit Department. Besides, Deputy Controller/Assistant Controller also supervises the Audit Parties while conducting the audit of HIMUDA and any other special audit of the major institutions assigned by the department.

SANCTIONED STRENGTH

Sanctioned staff of the Local Audit Department, Himachal Pradesh.

Sr. No.	Name of Post	Pay scale	No of posts
1.	Additional Director	12000-15500	1
2.	Joint Director/Joint Controller	10025-15100	2
3.	Deputy Director/Deputy Controller	7880-11660	6
4.	Assistant Director/Assistant Controller	7220-11660	9 *
5.	Section Officer	7000-10980	34
6.	Junior Auditor	5800-9200	73
7.	Clerk	3120-5160/4400-7000	7
8.	Driver	3330-6200 +300S.P.	1
9.	Gestetnor Operator	2820-4400	1
10.	Daftari	2820-4400	1
11.	Peon	2520-4140(initial start of Rs.2620/-)	6
	Total		141

*One post of Assistant Director/Assistant Controller created in the State Vigilance and Anti Corruption Bureau, Shimla-2.