Panaji: The state government has decided to introduce the appropriate accounting system in all Panchayats 191 in the state to increase their income and make it financially sustainable.
Minister Panchayats Mauvin Godinho said that he had moved files to start a double entry accounting system and the right audit in all panthayats.
“In the end when we call it their local self-government agency must also learn to stand on his own legs in the long run,” he said.
Godinho said that the Institute of Charter Accountants of India (Western Region) said that “we will see that this happens and we are ready to collaborate”.
He said that the Institute of Public Administration and Rural Development (Gipard) will train Panchayat members and others in the Pancrayat area.
Asked whether Panchayats would be ready to receive assistance from a charter accountant, Godinho said, “All of India who practiced had been followed, and all Panchayats had done it and we left behind.
We must follow him.” He said he would call a meeting with Gipard, Director of Panchayats, Representative From Charter Accessants to find out several schedules to train Panchayat members.
He said that it was part of the reform and we had to move with time and see that the right system was followed even in Pancahayats.
Referring to non-a collection of home tax by most Panchayats, Godinho said that by adopting the right accounting system, even things like that would fall.
“Panchayats will be forced to collect home taxes,” he said.
Asked whether Panchayats will be able to adopt accounting systems remembering their financial weakness, Godinho said that the state would help smaller pancires and if such a situation arose, the state would give them a grant.