Minister of Education Priya Manickchand says ministry views the Auditor General’s report as a management tool and will do its best to ensure that the pronouncements made in the report are addressed and that there are no repeats.
The 2010 report commented on a number of issues concerning the ministry, including a $110 million contract for the procurement of textbooks, the process for which circumvented the controls of the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act 2003.
Speaking to Stabroek News in an invited comment on Thursday, Manickchand who took over the reins of the ministry following last year’s general and regional elections, said,
