Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India To, The Superintending Engineer & Nodal Officer Water Resources Department Water Survey Circle, RAIPUR, CHHATTISGARH Report on the Project Financial Statements We have audited the accompanying financial statements of the World Bank Assisted National Hydrology Project Phase-Ill (State Agency) under World Bank Loan No.8725-IN. which comprise the Statement of Sources and Applications of Funds and the Reconciliation of Claims to Total Applications of Funds for the year ended 31s" March 2021. These statements are the responsibility of the Project's Management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the accompanying financial statements based on our audit. We have conducted our audit in accordance with the Auditing Standards promulgated by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. Those Standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. Our audit examined, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. It also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion. In our opinion, the Project Financial Statements present fairly, in all material respects, the sources and applications of funds of National Hydrology Project for the year ended 3 1 March 2021 in accordance with Government of India accounting standards. in addition, in our opinion, (a) with respect to Interim Unaudited Financial Report (JUFRs), adequate supporting documentation has been maintained to support claims to the World Bank for reimbursements of expenditure incurred, and (b) except for ineligible expenditure as detailed in audit observations, if any appended to this audit report, expenditure are eligible for financing under the Loan Agreement. During the course of the audit, IUFRs and the connected documents were examined and these can be relied upon to support reimbursement (Annexure-I) under the Loan Agreement. This report is issued without prejudice to Comptroller and Auditor General of India's right to incorporate the audit observations in the Report of Comptroller and Auditor General of India being laid before Parliament/State or UT Legislature. Sr. Dy. A ntant General Post ManIhar, Zero Point) Raipor 493 111 (Chhattisgarh) wis/Phone :2582082 i&m1/Fax :2582505 - rn//Emai :agauchhattisgarh@cag gov,in Annexurc- Statement slowing the details of expenditure incurred i. e. category wise, component wise for the year 2020-21 in respect of World Bank assisted National Iydrology Project (Loan No.8725-IN) Implementing Agency Name: Chhattisgarli Components Expenditure as Actual Expenditure Expenditure per IUFR Expenditure as Disallowed Admitted in Verified in audit 1in Audit Audit RS. RS. RS. RS. (A) (B) (C) (D) - (B-C) Component-A 5858087 5858087 0 5858087 Component-B 0 0 0 0 Component-C 0 0 0 0 Component-D 606032 606032 0 606032 Total 6464119 6464119 0 6464119 Sr. Audit officer/FAW