Chapter IV FINANCE AND PROPERTY

(1) There shall be a Fund called the Basavakalyan Development Board Fund. (2) There shall be credited to the said Fund,- (i) all grants, subventions, donations and gifts made by the Central Government, State Government, any local authority or any body, whether incorporated or not or any person; (ii) the amount borrowed by the Board; and (iii) all other sums received by or on behalf of the Board from any source whatsoever. (3) Except as otherwise directed by the State Government all moneys credited to the Fund shall be invested in any Scheduled Bank or in the State Government Treasury. (4) The administrative expenses of the Board including the salaries, allowances and pension if any, payable to the Commissioner and other officer and employees of the Board shall be defrayed out of the fund of the Board.

The Fund and all property held or vested in the Board shall be applied for carrying out the purposes of this Act.

The State Government may every year make a grant to the Board of a sum equivalent to the administrative expenses of the Board, until the Board reaches self maintenance stage out of its own resources.

(1) The Board shall prepare every year, before such date and in such form as may be prescribed, a budget estimate of its income and expenditure for the financial year to commence on the first day of April next following and shall forward it to the State Government for sanction. The Board may also prepare supplementary Budget Estimates, during the course of any financial year, if necessary. (2) The State Government shall approve the Budget Estimates and Supplementary Budget Estimates with or without modifications. (3) In cases of extreme urgency, it shall be competent for the Commissioner to incur expenditure not exceeding Rs. 5,00,000 in a financial year, notwithstanding the fact that such expenditure has not been included in the annual or Supplementary Budget Estimate approved by the State Government under sub-section (2). (4) The Commissioner shall also have power to reappropriate funds from one unit of expenditure to another unit, subject to a maximum of Rs. 1,00,000 at a time.

(1) The Commissioner shall cause to be maintained such books of accounts and other registers as may be prescribed and shall prepare in the prescribed manner an annual statement of accounts.

(2) The financial year of the Board shall commence on 1st April of each calendar year and shall end on 31st March of the succeeding calendar year.

(3) The accounts of the Board shall be audited annually by the Controller, State Accounts Department. The Board or the State Government may order concurrent and special audits also.

(4) The auditor shall, for the purposes of the audit, have access to all the accounts and other records of the Board.

(5) As soon as may be after the receipt of the annual statement of accounts and the report of the auditor, the Board shall consider it in its meeting and send a copy of the annual statement of accounts together with a copy of the report of the auditor to the State Government, along with its explanation on the comments made by the auditor, if any, and a statement of action taken by the Board to remedy the irregularities or loopholes, if any, pointed out by the auditor.

(6) The State Government may after perusal of the report of the auditor, and other documents submitted to it, as in sub-section (5), give such directions as it thinks fit to the Board and the Board shall comply with such directions.

(1) The Board shall prepare an Annual Report of its working for each financial year and submit it to the State Government along with other reports under section 32.

(2) The Board shall before such date, in such form and at such intervals as may be prescribed, submit the prescribed reports to the State Government.