The National Informatics Centre has developed a major audit application for the office of the Director General of Audit, Central Revenues, (DGACR), Indian Audit and Accounts Department. The system has been developed in Clipper in DOS environment. The office of DGACR reviews development schemes initiated by the Government of India and thus has to maintain information on these schemes. Various Departments and autonomous bodies of the Government of India responsible for implementing the schemes provide relevant information to the DGACR office. Before the implementation of the system, data on various schemes provided by auditee organizations were maintained physically in files and then processed when any particular scheme was taken up for audit. Since the data was spread over a number of files and registers, collation took a lot of time. The software developed by NIC has been found very useful for maintaining data from all schemes at one place. Moreover, manipulation of data for various queries and reports has been rendered easy, quick and accurate. The system provides various reports which can be used for effective audit planning and to monitor the status of any outstanding audit para with respect to the schemes. All details of the schemes received from auditee institutions are arranged and maintained in five different databases: - General Information Database - Budget/Expenditure Information Database - Foreign Assistance Information Database - Other Implementing Agencies Database - Audit Information Database These five databases are integrated into the system using a combination of two fields --- Organization Code and Scheme Code. The software is also available in FoxBase under the UNIX operating system and can be implemented in the offices of the financial advisors of various ministries and departments. Apart from providing information very fast, the system can also generate various decision-support reports for audit reviews of the schemes. These reports include: - Complete information of a particular scheme - Schemes of a particular organization - Schemes of a particular ministry or department - Schemes taken up for audit in a particular year For further information, please contact: NIC Computer Cell, Office of Comptroller & Auditor General of India, 10, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi - 110 002.